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Venezuelan authorities on Tuesday began moving residents out of the Tower of David, a Caracas skyscraper so notorious as a haven for squatters and...
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The nine-year-old boy dressed in blue lay listlessly on the pavement in the scorching Mumbai summer afternoon, his ankle tethered with rope to a...
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Can investors get rich by backing Nigerian agriculture? An increasingly loud chorus of voices say that answering this question may be the most pressing...
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The International Monetary Fund has changed and no longer imposes tough “structural adjustment” programs as it did in poor countries two decades ago, IMF...
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Single mother Christina Bantasan clutched her baby in the shadows of a sprawling Philippine slum, wishing that a controversial birth control law had come...
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The Philippines’ highest court approved Tuesday a controversial birth control law that supporters said would transform the lives of millions of poor Filipinos, despite...
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The World Food Program sounded an alarm Friday over arid conditions in northwest Haiti that have worsened an already dire food shortage in this...
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The fruit of the shea tree has long been considered sacred by many in Western Africa because of its myriad health benefits. But now...
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Welfare cuts ordered in the wake of Europe’s economic crisis are hitting the poor disproportionately hard, with child poverty rising and people’s health at...
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A Paris court on Monday ordered nearly 12,000 euros ($16,500) in compensation to be paid to a man who rented a “broom closet” for...