Half a billion Asians crammed into urban slums: aid group
Asian countries must strive to provide decent
housing for more than half a billion urban slum dwellers left behind
by the region’s robust but uneven economic growth, an international
aid group said.
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Sea may swallow Maldives if global warming unchecked
His Indian Ocean island cluster is a magnet for
Hollywood stars such as Tom Cruise, but the Maldives may disappear
within generations unless world leaders urgently combat climate
change, President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom warns.
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Over 130 killed in second deadliest attack since Iraq invasion
A suicide bomber blew up his Mercedes truck in a
Baghdad market killing over 130 people in the second deadliest
attack since the US-led invasion of 2003.
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