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USAID Food for Peace Donation to the World Food Program in the Central African Republic

The United States Agency for International Development’s Office of Food for Peace has approved a food aid contribution to the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) in the Central African Republic (CAR) in the amount of $6.5 million. The official...

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Migrant Crisis Exposes Two Sides Of Berlusconi

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has been sharply criticized for his handling of a migrant wave on Lampedusa — an island in the Mediterranean Sea that is the southern most point of Italy, about 70 miles from Tunisia. Last week, Tunisians who...

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UN nuclear agency calls high-level meeting on Japanese power plant crisis

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IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano

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Turkey ready to broker cease-fire over fears Libya may turn into "second Iraq or Afghanistan"

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has signalled that his country is ready to become a mediator to help attain an early ceasefire in Libya over fears that the country could turn into a "second Iraq" or "another Afghanistan".

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