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Obama’s humanitarian stance on the Middle EastUSAID, the independent federal government agency that provides humanitarian and development asistance under the foreign policy guidance of the Secretary of State spent $2.4 billion across the whole of the Middle East in 2007, including all reconstruction efforts in Iraq. The Bush administration d... |
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US aid worker killed by Islamic extremists in Pakistan ambushAn American aid worker shot dead in Peshawar yesterday is believed to be the first victim of a targeted attack on a westerner in the campaign of violence unleashed by Islamic extremists in Pakistan from summer last year.Stephen Vance, a contractor to the US government development agency USAid, wa... |
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Key U.S. Aid Worker in Pakistan Is SlainThe worker in a program to bring development to a lawless region of Pakistan was assassinated in his car. ... |
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Four Years Later, CH2M HILL "Builds Back Better" to Support Successful, Sustainable Future for Tsunami-Torn Sri Lanka and MaldivesDENVER, CO--(Marketwire - November 11, 2008) - Nearly four years ago, an earthquake off the Sumatra coastline measured 9.2 on the Richter scale. The massive tsunami that resulted and came to shore on December 26 completely devastated the lives, land, and infrastructure of the people of Sri Lanka... |
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Haiti school collapse: 200 feared missingHaiti begun a period of national mourning yesterday for the victims of a school that collapsed in the capital, Port-au-Prince.The church-run school collapsed on Friday, killing at least 84 staff and children and injuring more than 150. In dramatic scenes yesterday four children - two girls aged t... |
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Larry Summers For Treasury Secretary?Arguably, the most important appointment President Obama will make is the Treasury Secretary, to help guide us out of this morass left us by the Bush neocons. One of the people that has most captured the media's attention is Larry Summers. But is he the right guy? Time: Summers was an awful... |
