Drought leads to wider trade gap for Australia
Australia's trade deficit unexpectedly widened in March to the second highest on record as a drought across half the nation cut exports of wool, wheat and other farm goods, while oil imports
International Herald Tribune (Bangkok)
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India strives to block explosion of AIDS
Riffling through multiple condom packets in his office here, the man responsible for battling the exploding AIDS crisis in India was eager to display his latest weapons. There were condoms for the
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Polio strain from Africa is confirmed in Indonesia
A case of polio has been detected in an Indonesian baby, according to World Health Organization officials, indicating that an outbreak spreading from northern Nigeria since 2003 has crossed an ocean
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In India, some don't see a billion as too many
Even as China backpedals from its draconian one-child policy, two large Indian states are preparing their own variations on the theme. India's wealthiest state, Maharashtra, recently adopted a law
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The bird that returned
But it makes a terrific headline for a bird, "the Lord God bird" reported last week to have been rediscovered after 61 years of official extinction (better than, say, "King woodchuck," one of its
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Kick-starting global trade talks
Over the next few days, dozens of trade ministers will gather in Paris for an annual meeting of the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development. Top on the agenda will be the current round
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Household fish farming facing setback as goons poisoning water bodies
Fish farming in house-hold ponds, water-bodies and low-land paddy fields have of late become a profitable, self-employed vocation for the unemployed rural youths, but bids to poison fish by local
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One way to fight AIDS
In any given year, perhaps a third of the people infected with hepatitis C and more than 15 percent of those with AIDS in the United States spend time behind bars. With infection levels far higher
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WTO orders Europe to end sugar dumping
The World Trade Organization's highest court issued a final ruling Thursday that orders the European Union to stop dumping subsidized sugar illegally on global markets or face trade sanctions. The
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Bird Flu outbreak in North Korea contained
An outbreak of avian influenza in North Korea has been contained, the United Nations said today, assuring the world and at the same time urging the country to continue surveillance on the affected