...treaty aimed at protecting children, leaving the United States as the only country outside the pact, UNICEF said Friday. Somalia and the United States have long been the last hold-outs to the Convention on the Rights of the Child , adopted by...

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Bosnia 's economy is expected to shrink this year by 3.5 percent and then grow by 0.5 percent in 2010, an IMF official said on Friday, revising an earlier forecast for a 3 percent contraction in 2009. "The decline in GDP will be contained,...

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The International Monetary Fund sees Poland 's economy growing by two to three percent next year, the Fund 's regional representative said on Friday. "It is obvious that Poland needs to reduce the growth in its public debt," Mark Allen also...

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5000 under-5 children die in India everyday: UNICEF PTI 20 November 2009, 05:40pm IST NEW DELHI : Despite a decrease in child mortality figures, 5,000 children under the age of five die in India everyday due to preventable causes,...

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...an appropriate capital adequacy ratio and exposure of at least 95 percent of the September 2008 level for the duration of the (Hungarian IMF / EU financing) program," the IMF added. (Reporting by Krisztina Than; Editing by Tomasz Janowski )

In this article: International Monetary Fund, Hungary, Intesa Sanpaolo, EU, and KBC Group

UNITED NATIONS -- UNICEF urged the world to help the 1 billion children still deprived of food, shelter, clean water or health care -- and the hundreds of millions more threatened by violence -- 20 years after the U.N. adopted a treaty...

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THIS STORY HAS BEEN FORMATTED FOR EASY PRINTING UNITED NATIONS - Twenty years after the United Nations adopted a treaty guaranteeing children's rights, a billion children are still deprived of food, shelter, or clean water and nearly 200...

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...to school - but an estimated 1 billion still lack services essential to their survival and development, UNICEF said Thursday. The U.N. children's agency issued a special edition of its annual report on The State of the World's Children...

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...said the world can no longer rely on a currency issued by a single country, and a new global currency may evolve out of the IMF 's in-house unit of account, known as Special Drawing Rights. "The managing director has said ... he expects...

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GENEVA ( Reuters ) - The World Trade Organization authorized Brazil Thursday to impose trade sanctions on the United States over its support for cotton, as Brazil ratcheted up pressure on Washington over the illegal subsidies. But Brazil is...

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Article Date: 19 Nov 2009 - 2:00 PST At a time when funds to feed the hungry are hard to come by, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP ) today urged ordinary people to put food on the table of the world's hungry by supporting the...

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...Contreras was cleared by the Dominican Olympic Committee after the "B" sample came back negative. The IOC said Wednesday that it reserves the right to reopen disciplinary procedures against Contreras "in the event that new evidence...

In this article: Rashid Ramzi, International Olympic Committee, Silver, Davide Rebellin, Beijing, Bahrain, Stefan Schumacher, Sebastian Coe, 2012 London Olympics, and Court of Arbitration for Sport

...and Belarus , its partners in a customs union , a Russian official said on Wednesday. His comments after trade talks with the European Union removed some of the confusion caused by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in June when he said Russia...

In this article: World Trade Organization, Russia, European Union, Vladimir Putin, Recession, and Moscow

...enrichment facility, in contravention of the U.N. Security Council requirements and IAEA obligations," Kelly told reporters November 17. The IAEA report, published November 16, comes after its inspectors visited Iran 's newly...

In this article: IAEA, Iran, Uranium, U.N. Security Council, Qom, United States, and Nuclear power

he World Food Programme , facing a major funding shortfall as donor governments are hit by the financial crisis, is appealing directly to one billion individuals to give small amounts of cash to beat hunger. Josette Sheeran , head of the...

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...three years to boost agricultural output in poor countries, reducing the need for the food aid provided by WFP. "Our missions at FAO and WFP are very different but can be complementary. Our joint message to the world is that we have to do...

In this article: World Food Programme, Josette Sheeran, Food and Agriculture Organization, Revenue, Rome, Biofuel, G8, and Horn of Africa

...have been evacuated and scores of schools closed due to fighting which has now spilled over from Yemen , the United Nations Children's Fund ( UNICEF ) said on Friday, citing local contacts. Saudi Arabia , the world's biggest oil exporter,...

In this article: Unicef, Yemen, United Nations, Saudi Arabia, Sa'dah, and United Nations Children's Fund

...2 per cent of all child deaths, it gets more than 20 cents of every dollar spent on public health. UNICEF was unable to say how much it spends on nutrition. But last year, its sister agency, the World Health Organisation , spent about six...

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