By Mike O'Sullivan Los Angeles 18 October 2006 Earlier this year, President Bush deployed 6,000 National Guard troops to the southern U.S. border to help the Border Patrol with security. This month, the president signed a bill that provides $1.2 bil

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By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 22 June 2007 Unions in Nigeria have vowed to intensify a three-day old strike called to protest a hike in fuel prices. As Gilbert da Costa reports from Abuja, union officials and government representatives met Thursday night

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By Gilbert Da Costa Abuja 21 January 2006 An unidentified Shell contract worker stands outside the Warri airport after being evacuated from Benisede oil platform in Warri, Nigeria Ethnic Ijaw leaders

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A new international initiative to increase grain crop yields could help raise incomes for six million farmers in South Asia and combat hunger in one of the poorest regions of the world. Indian farmer women winnow mustard crop at Baraikapurva village

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Algeria is simmering with the same toxic mix of economic and political discontent that has exploded into revolts across the Arab world. But another effort to stage an anti-government protest in front of the main post office in downtown Algiers failed

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By Paige Kollock New York City 16 November 2009 Hula-hooping is making a come-back as one of the latest exercise trends It might have ended up as just another passing fitness fad from the 1950s, but hula-hooping appears to have caught on and stuck.

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