Shanty Towns
The United Nations estimates that at least one billion people—20% of the world's population—live in crowded, unsanitary slums of the central cities and in the vast ...
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Turkey's prime minister on Saturday proposed imposing limits on the number of people moving to Istanbul as well as restricting car ownership in the country's most populous and congested city.Recep ...
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Banco del Libro, a nonprofit Venezuelan network that has been distributing books to children for nearly half a century, is the 2007 winner of the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award for Literature.The a...
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Kiev (dpa) - Dozens of Moslem Tartars fought similar numbers of
Christian Slav police in Ukraine's restive Crimea Peninsula, the
Interfax news agency reported Friday.
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NAIROBI, Dec 27 (Reuters) - As opposition leader Raila
Odinga voted on Thursday in the heart of East Africa's biggest
slum, cries rose up hailing him as a warrior and already calling
him Kenya's n...
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TOP STORIES ----------- ISLAMABAD - Pakistani electoral officials hold an emergency
meeting on Monday to decide whether to go ahead with a January
poll in a nation plunged into crisis by the assas...
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NAIROBI, Jan 1 (Reuters) - The wave of post-election
violence in Kenya is hurting mainly the poor rather than the
politicians who caused it but who are safe inside their gated
compounds, an Italia...
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NAIROBI, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Just a few hundred tired-looking
demonstrators marched in Kenya's capital on Wednesday before
being chased back into their slums by police firing teargas. It was a far ...
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Warsaw (dpa) - Loving fathers and brutal killers, brothers 2Pac
and Bily were ghetto gang leaders sporting machine guns reputedly
supplied by none-other than the now-deposed...
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The U.N. health agency plans to vaccinate nearly 3 million children in the Horn of Africa this year against polio, a crippling disease that experts fear could spread rapidly along the reg...
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More than 4 million Iraqis have now been displaced by violence in the country, the U.N. refugee agency said Tuesday, warning that the figure will continue to rise as Iraqi authorities struggle to p...
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Shanty Towns
Turkish PM seeks to limit migration
