U.S. gives $116 million to improve health care
The United States on Monday announced a new health grant of $116 million to Pakistan, a key ally in the campaign against on terror.The U.S. ambassador to Pakistan, Nancy Powell, and Waqar Masood
International Herald Tribune (Bangkok)
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Vaccinating Americans
Although few measures buy as much health for the money as vaccination, American's vaccine system is troubled. Millions of people cannot afford immunizations. In recent years, some vaccines have run
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Bush plan to ease air pollution rules
After more than two years of internal deliberation and intense pressure from industry, the Bush administration has settled on a regulation that would allow thousands of older power plants, oil
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Fake malaria pills haunt Asians
The fake drugs in Combodian villagers are being blamed for the hundreds of deaths during last year. The rising traffic, prompted by the increasing popularity of a costly new drug to combat an
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Washington's poisonous take on New York's toxic dust
Last week a quietly scathing report by the inspector general of the Environmental Protection Agency confirmed what some have long suspected : In the aftermath of the World misled New Yorkers about
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U.S. corn said to hurt Mexican farmers
The more than $10 billion that American taxpayers give corn farmers every year in agricultural subsidies has helped destroy the livelihoods of millions of small Mexican farmers, according to a report
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Heat in Europe may have killed 20000
As temperatures begin cooling throughout Europe thanks to rain, the number of people who may have died in this summer's heat wave is being put between 15000 and 20000. In France, where about, 10000
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Politics and pollution
President George W. Bush's critics have watched with mounting frustration as his administration has compiled one of the worst environmental records in recent history without paying any real political
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Connecting the Pacific
As globalization spreads, few regions stand to lose more than the remote island nations of the Pacific. Living standards in this immense geograhic area have been steadily declining for all but the
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Cheaper medicine for world's poor
The World Trade Organisation has agreed to give poor nations greater access to inexpensive lifesaving medicine by altering international trade rules. After several days of nonstop negotiation, the