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The May 26 news program reported the low-income family could not afford to send their child to hospital for treatment and had never received financial or medical aid from the government or charity organizations.
Recently, UNICEF’s Innocenti Research Centre released a report called “Child Poverty in Perspective: An Overview of Child Well-Being in Rich Countries” in [...]

WESTON REED, 10, had come from his fifth-grade classroom to a clinic in the basement at the Edison Elementary School here. Perched on an examining table, he eyed Alison G. Oesterle, a nurse practitioner, warily.%26#8220;Please don%26#8217;t tell me I%26#8217;m going to get a shot,%26#8221; Weston said.Once assured that his checkup did not include any [...]

(Reuters) - Serbia’s breakaway Kosovo province is preparing to declare independence this weekend after eight years under United Nations stewardship. Here is a look at the main economic challenges facing the new state.
UNEMPLOYMENT
Some 50 percent of the workforce is in formal employment, with the rest either long-term unemployed or working unofficially. [...]

In 1990, he went on holiday to California and never came back. Three months after he arrived on America’s west coast, his tourist visa expired and he became an illegal immigrant; four years later, his British passport ran out. As the years passed by, returning home seemed increasingly out of the question: legally, financially, physically, [...]

Under his rule Indonesia became closely aligned with western interests during the cold war and was rewarded with aid and investment to foster rapid economic growth - which made fortunes for Suharto’s cronies and favoured ambitious, but often unsound, development projects. Schemes to relocate millions of landless peasants and open up virgin forests paved the [...]

Makes a 900g loafvegetable oil for brushing 250g self-raising flour 1tsp baking powder 1 tsp fairtrade mixed spice 80g hard margarine or butter 3 medium fairtrade bananas, mashed 3 large eggs 80g plus 1 tbs fairtrade golden granulated sugar 3 tbs fairtrade clear honey 40g dried fairtrade pineapple, chopped 3 tbs plus 1 tbs desiccated [...]

Jan. 24 (Bloomberg) — Ben Bernankes public school
education in Dillon, South Carolina, was his steppingstone to
Harvard University. Today, the schools he attended are being
cited by Barack Obama as symbols of how America has neglected
its poor.
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Jan. 15 (Bloomberg) — Nepals political parties started
campaigning for April 10 elections that are central to the
Himalayan nations peace accord, as a bomb exploded in the
capital at a rally by the seven groups in the ruling coalition.
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