Millions of children are growing up in squalid urban areas and denied basic services despite living close to them, the United Nations Children's Fund said Tuesday. UNICEF said children living in slums and shantytowns often lack water, electricity and health care and it urged policy makers to ensure urban planning meets the needs of children. The agency said it is common for statistics to ...

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MOSCOW (AP) — It was an Ice Age squirrel's treasure chamber, a burrow containing fruit and seeds that had been stuck in the Siberian permafrost for over 30,000 years. From the fruit tissues, a team of Russian scientists managed to resurrect an entire plant in a pioneering experiment that paves the way for the revival of other species. The Silene stenophylla is the oldest plant ever to be ...

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        The mainstream media using words to mislead the real world of their blatant violation of the sovereignty of countries. According to the united nations there are one hundred and ninety two member states but when CNN reports of the world united against Iran,Libya,Iraq andAfghanistan it really means the combination of the old colonial ...

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 Since the political independence from the British throne our legislative process has been conducted by the two major political parties in Jamaica. Both parties having their original guidance and leadership emanating from establish political families and tied to the powerful networks of financial interest have prevented the establishment of a true representation of democracy in Jamaica. We ...

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  BOLIVIA.— Bolivian President Evo Morales has stated that certain non-governmental organizations are acting as a fifth column for the United States by passing on information about Latin America labor and social leaders in exchange for project funding. "I am convinced that certain NGO’s are spying for the United States, not just in Bolivia but throughout Latin America, because it is ...

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  A very humorous and revealing story is told about a group of white people who were fed up with African Americans, so they joined together and wished themselves away. They passed through a deep dark tunnel and emerged in sort of a twilight zone where there is an America without black people.  At first these white people breathed a sigh of ...

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  The recent general election saw the Jamaica labor Party suffered a massive defeat at the polls giving the opposition a landslide victory. The young and inexperience Andrew Holness in his pursuit of satisfying the interest of the international monetary fund and the private sector infuriated the working class when he made statement about their pension plans. What majority of Jamaicans ...

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The United Nations has called on Israel to immediately halt the destruction of Palestinian homes in the West Bank after reporting a dramatic rise in demolitions in the past year. Israeli forces destroyed 622 Palestinian homes in the West Bank in 2011, "forcibly displacing" almost 1,100 people, over half of them children, according to a UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs ...

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  KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Jamaica and the International Monetary Fund expect to begin negotiations in the coming weeks on a new deal as grim economic forecasts pose significant dangers for the debt-schackled Caribbean island, officials announced Tuesday. At a press briefing in the capital of Kingston, Finance Minister Peter Phillips and IMF mission chief Luis Breuer said there is a ...

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NEW YORK - Here's a crash course on how to further wreck the global economy. A key amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act signed by United States President Barack Obama on the last day of 2011 - when no one was paying attention - imposes sanctions on any countries or companies that buy Iranian oil and pay for it through Iran's central bank. Starting this summer, anybody who does so ...

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The Jamaica Patriotic Movement will honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jnr by quoting his speech before his untimely death in 1968 by the same dark forces that is now part of the tea party movement,the same forces that wanted to sidelined the United Nations movement on the illegal war on Iraq,the same forces that sidelined the Organization of African Unity in their quest for a peaceful settlement to ...

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Tearing up, US talk show queen Oprah Winfrey said Friday she is proud of the first graduates from her South African girls' academy and that the scandals the school has faced have only made them stronger. Five years after its founding, the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls will graduate its first class of 72 young women Saturday. Winfrey said the day will be a return on her $40-million ...

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    YESTERDAY I had the pleasure of conversing leisurely with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. I hadn’t seem him since September of 2006, more than five years ago, when he visited our country to participate in the 14th Non-Aligned Movement Summit which took place in Havana, when Cuba was elected for a second time to the Presidency of this organization for a three year term. I had become seriously ...

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  The new  mandated government of the Honorable Portia Simpson Miller should immediately meet with the Private sector and the major bondholders of our national debt to facilitate a memorandum of understanding wherein the payment of the debt be suspended for five years. If the bondholders, holders of nearly seven hundred billions dollars which is about sixty five percent of our gross ...

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  A well known European agency transmitted the news the day before yesterday from Sydney, Australia. "A group of Australian investigators from the University of New South Wales announced the creation of a wire 10,000 times thinner than a human hair, with the same electrical current carrying capability of copper." "... Bent Weber, head of the project at the Australian university, in an ...

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  President John F. Kennedy did not react with common sense to the U.S. defeat at the Bay of Pigs. He sought revenge. The Taylor Commission, established by the President to analyze the fiasco, recommended initiating new political, military, economic and propaganda measures "against Castro." The report led to the preparation and implementation of a new undercover operations plan, known as ...

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  The Jamaica labor party should have each of its members take up residence in the garrison for a month and observe the daily activities of its residence and it will conclude objectively why they got blown away by the Peoples National Party. They will see the blight of the environ, the unemployed youths hanging out on the corners rolling our popular “Jamaican cigarettes”, the hunger ...

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  Reuters) - A collapse of the euro and break-up of the European Union would have catastrophic consequences for the global financial system, billionaire investor George Soros was quoted as saying. "Today, the euro is potentially endangering the political cohesion of the European Union," the Business Line newspaper cited Soros as saying in the south Indian city of Hyderabad. "If the common ...

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   The Jamaica Patriotic Movement congratulates the Honorable Portia Simpson Miller, leader of the Peoples National Party on winning the recently concluded national election by decimating the representative of the rich, Andrew Holness, the racist section of the Jamaica labor party and the colonial mindset that would want to sacrifice our sovereignty at the altar of the imf/private ...

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  Marcela Valente BUENOS AIRES (IPS/GIN) —What is happening in the European Union and the United States today happened a decade ago in Argentina, when it was a hotbed of protest and the streets of major cities were seething with people telling their leaders they had had enough. A new narrative was about to be written. The historic protests of December 19-20, 2001 in Argentina left ...

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