The United Nations announced new pledges to fight Aids, tuberculosis and malaria at its Global Fund Conference in New York on Tuesday. Public and private donors of the fund made commitments worth 11.5 billion US dollars over the next three years. UN

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United Nations aid agencies say millions of survivors of Haiti's catastrophic earthquake are in urgent need of tents and food. The United Nations also is appealing to donors to convert their pledges of money into cash, which is desperately needed to

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Donors Pledge $12 Billion for Global Fund 捐助者承诺捐助近120亿美元 Donors showed strong support this week for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. They pledged 12-billion dollars at the funds replenishment meeting in W

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By Benjamin Sand Islamabad 19 November 2006 British PM Tony Blair, left, shakes hands with his Pakistani counterpart Shaukat Aziz in Islamabad, Pakistan, November 19, 2006 British Prime Minister Tony Blair says, success in the war against terrorism

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A senior North Korean official says his country is beginning to restore a disabled nuclear facility capable of producing weapons material. Pyongyang says the United States has not fulfilled obligations under a multinational agreement to get rid of t

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Iran Pledges New Initiatives Ahead of Crucial Nuclear Talks The Fordo uranium enrichment plant is buried deep under a mountain 160 kilometers south of Tehran and is central to the talks this weekend. According to media reports citing diplomats, the U

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U.S. President Barack Obama is promising new Navy and Marine Corps officers that he will only send young Americans into battle when it is absolutely necessary. The president spoke Friday to the graduating class of the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis

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The European Union representative to the Central African Republic said the commission has made available more than $15 million to fund the country's presidential and legislative elections. This is raising hope the polls will be held in January 2011,

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The European Union and dozens of countries have pledged to speed up social support for Holocaust survivors and the search for art and other items that were stolen during World War II by the Nazis. At the meeting in Prague, they agreed to establish a

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South Africa Pledges to Get Tough on Rape In recent months, the outrage has grown. These protesters are marching to protest the brutal killing of teenager Anene Booysen. Anene was one of an estimated 64,000 girls and women who are raped every year in

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Europe Pledges Peacekeepers, Trade Ties for Africa LONDON African and European Union leaders have wrapped up a two-day summit aimed at improving trade ties, but the talks in Brussels were overshadowed by the worsening crisis in the Central African Re

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The first India-Africa summit has concluded with a pledge to work as partners to address economic and development challenges. They also vowed to ensure food security for their developing regions, where poverty is widespread. 首届印非高峰会星期

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By Dan Robinson Washington 20 May 2006 A prominent Republican lawmaker says he will hold a hearing on an incident last November in which U.S. soldiers are alleged to have killed innocent civilians in

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By Deborah Tate Washington 09 January 2006 Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito, second from right, prepares to testify on Capitol Hill President Bush's nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court, Judge Samuel A

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By Nico Colombant Monrovia 22 February 2008 Teachers and students in Liberia say they want more than textbooks and desks to improve their war-ravaged education system, following new aid pledges by President Bush at the end of his Africa tour this wee

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By Scott Stearns Monrovia 21 February 2008 President Bush has announced new American funds to help Liberia rebuild its education system. VOA White House Correspondent Scott Stearns reports the president visited this civil-war scarred country on the l

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By Nina Maria Potts Brussels 05 April 2007 Watch Biofuels report The EU is emerging at the forefront of the fight against climate change. Pledging to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 and boost renewable sources, EU politicians seem keener than e

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By Gary Thomas London 07 September 2006 British Prime Minister Tony Blair, under political pressure from within his own party, has promised to step down within one year. The British leader made the announcement in London Thursday in a bid to dampen

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By Dan Robinson Capitol Hill 07 November 2007 French President Nicolas Sarkozy, addressing a joint meeting of the U.S. Congress, has pledged to strengthen ties with the United States, saying Americans can count on France in the war on terrorism and e

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By Scott Bobb Johannesburg 07 November 2007 Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir says he is fully committed to a peace accord with former southern Sudanese rebels. The Sudanese leader made the remark during a three-day visit to South Africa that conclud

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