Topic: - on January 24, 2003 at 6:28:21 PM CET
World Unemployment Reaches 180 Million
And hundreds of millions of people work but make so little money they can barely survive. The U.N. labor agency reports that the number of people without a job has increased by 20 million over the past two years.
One economist called the situation "alarming."
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Topic: - on January 21, 2003 at 4:35:47 PM CET
Will Europe Become a Super Power?
To all appearances, European integration may get a new strong spur in the nearest time. A new state may appear on the geographic map of Europe in several years, however, it is not yet clear how this new state will be called. Former rivals, German and France, plan to confederate.
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Topic: - on January 20, 2003 at 1:35:59 PM CET
Cubans Vote in One-Party General Elections
Cubans voted in one-party general elections on Sunday, with President Fidel Castro saying the election showed defiance against U.S. efforts to destroy the country's communist revolution.
Dissidents dismissed the poll as a fraud and urged people to boycott it, but authorities said that 7.4 million people, or 89.6 percent of registered voters, had cast their ballots by early.
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Topic: - on January 19, 2003 at 12:20:01 PM CET
Designer Drugs: Fact or Fiction?
The Human Genome Project created many breathless headlines promising, among other things, designer drugs for everyone. But the project's failure to bring about miraculous changes in health care burst biotech's stock market bubble.
The World Economic Forum, to be held in Davos, Switzerland, starting Jan. 23, will gather pioneering biotech executives to discuss the promise of drugs tailored to each person's genetic makeup: Are they hype, or are financial markets simply too impatient for science's comparatively slower pace?
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Topic: - on January 19, 2003 at 11:57:19 AM CET
Cuba votes in choice-free poll
Millions of Cubans are going to the polls on Sunday to vote for deputies in the country's National Assembly. In the election there are exactly the same number of candidates as seats and all the candidates are selected by government-approved bodies.
Dissidents on the island have described the vote as a sham.
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Topic: - on January 16, 2003 at 3:42:50 PM CET
GROWING OPPOSITION TO PENTAGON SUPER DATABASE
A Pentagon antiterrorism plan to link databases of credit card companies, health insurers and others--creating what critics call a "domestic surveillance apparatus"--is encountering growing opposition on Capitol Hill.
Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wisc., is planning to introduce a bill on Thursday to halt the Pentagon's Total Information Awareness program. A representative said on Wednesday that if passed, the legislation would suspend the TIA program until Congress can "review the data-mining issues."
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Topic: - on January 15, 2003 at 2:35:37 PM CET
Giuliani Down To 9 Bodyguards
With New York City's budget shriveling, former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani is down to nine bodyguards. A source says the city has also asked Giuliani to pay for his guards' travel expenses. About 20 officers had been protecting Giuliani and close relatives after he left office on the first of the year. The annual cost was nearly $1 million.
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Topic: - on January 10, 2003 at 11:24:02 AM CET
Nordkorea kündigt Atomwaffensperrvertrag
Nordkorea hat den Vertrag zur Nichtverbreitung von Atomwaffen aufgekündigt. Das Abkommen sei ab sofort ungültig, meldete Nordkoreas amtliche Nachrichtenagentur KCNA. Das Land habe aber keine Ambitionen, Nuklearwaffen herzustellen. Die Regierung sei derzeit an einer friedlichen Nutzung der Kernenergie interessiert, hieß es weiter.
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Topic: - on December 31, 2002 at 12:53:24 AM CET
Marxists claim bombing of Marcos bus
Philippine communist rebels have claimed responsibility for blowing up a huge statue of former president Ferdinand Marcos, which they said was a symbol of dictator-worship.
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Topic: - on December 29, 2002 at 1:07:37 PM CET
Kenya's ruling party routed
Kenya's opposition has won a landslide victory in the country's elections, ending the ruling Kanu party's four-decade long spell in power. Not all the votes have yet been counted, but the electoral commission said there was no doubt that Mwai Kibaki of the National Rainbow Coalition (Narc) would be the country's next president.
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Topic: - on December 29, 2002 at 12:50:10 PM CET
Russia kicks out U.S. Peace Corps
The official statement from the Russian government came Christmas Day: the Peace Corps is no longer welcome in Russia.
The Russian Foreign Ministry said things have changed since 1992, when the U.S.-sponsored program began operating in Russia, and noted "changing economic and social tasks facing our country."
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Topic: - on December 22, 2002 at 10:43:22 AM CET
Korea turns off nuclear monitors
North Korea disabled U.N. surveillance equipment installed at one of its reactors Saturday, prompting the U.N. nuclear agency to express "deep regret" over the action and issue a new call for restraint. International Atomic Energy Agency Director-General Mohamed ElBaradei said he urged the reclusive nation not to take further actions to restart its nuclear program.
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