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Nigeria lifts tax on rice in bid to head off food crisis
By EDWARD HARRIS - Associated Press Writer | LAGOS, Nigeria -- | Nigeria on Wednesday announced it was suspending import duties and other taxes on rice while launching a raft of other measures to head... (photo: WN / Sweet Radoc)
Africa Food Nigeria Photos Tax |
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GLOBAL: Six million children "need not die every year"
web | Photo: UNICEF/Giacomo Pirozzi NAIROBI, - More than six million children could be saved from death every year if funding were increased to improve community-level health services in the developin... (photo: UNHCR / M.Pearson)
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 The State
Nigeria lifts tax on rice in bid to head off food crisis
By EDWARD HARRIS - Associated Press Writer | LAGOS, Nigeria -- | Nigeria on Wednesday announced it was suspending import duties and other taxes on rice while launching a ... (photo: WN / Sweet Radoc)
Africa Food Nigeria Photos Tax |
 IRINnews
GLOBAL: Six million children "need not die every year"
web | Photo: UNICEF/Giacomo Pirozzi NAIROBI, - More than six million children could be saved from death every year if funding were increased to improve community-level he... (photo: UNHCR / M.Pearson)
Children Health Million Photos UNICEF |
 Star Tribune
Basketball Withouit Borders bound for India
NEW YORK — The NBA will stage an event in India for the first time this summer, conducting one of its Basketball without Borders camps in New Delhi. | The lea... (photo: michcampgrounds)
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 IRINnews
IRAQ: Kurdistan bracing for possible cholera outbreak
web | Photo: IRIN BAGHDAD, - The Iraqi authorities in the self-ruled northern region of Kurdistan are gearing up to face a possible cholera outbreak which last year affec... (photo: AP Photo )
Cholera Iraq Kurdistan Outbreak Photos |
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ISRAEL-OPT: Israeli holidays mean further movement restrictions for Palestinians
web | Photo: Shabtai Gold/IRIN JERUSALEM, - Israelis commemorating national and Jewish religious days would like to do so in peace, without having to fear attacks by Pale... (photo: REGIERUNGonline / Kugler )
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 International Herald Tribune
Meet Ali Kamara from Freetown
| : It's true that 3 billion people on earth depend on rice to live, and that the price of even low-quality rice has soared by 50 percent. | But it isn't until you watch ... (photo: WN / John Sahid)
Africa Food France Health People Photos Sierra Leone |
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YEMEN: Rebel leader calls for international aid
web | Photo: WFP SANAA, - The leader of Shia rebels in the northern governorate of Saada, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, has called on aid agencies and the UN to focus their effo... (photo: AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)
Aid Arab Asia Photo Photos Sanaa UN Yemen |
 Buffalo News
2 killed in Somalia during riot over food prices
| MOGADISHU, Somalia - Troops fired into tens of thousands of rioting Somalis on Monday, killing two people in the latest eruption of violence over soaring food prices ar... (photo: AP /Mohamed Sheikh Nor)
Africa Food Mogadishu Photos Somalia |
 Lexington Herald-Leader
2 Taiwanese officials resign over Papua New Guinea fiasco
| TAIPEI, Taiwan -- | Two senior Taiwanese officials resigned Tuesday over the loss of millions of dollars in a failed attempt to persuade Papua New Guinea to officially ... (photo: AP / Vincent Yu)
Asia Fraud Photos Politics Taipei Taiwan |
