Word: extention
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...Washington as an apologist for Kim Jong Il. Now, Bush has all but adopted the "Sunshine Policy" by promising Pyongyang a range of diplomatic and economic blandishments in return for the North's nuclear disarmament. Although Pyongyang missed a Dec. 31 deadline to come clean about the full extent of its nuclear-weapons program, as it had promised to do, the North is already dismantling its plutonium reactor at Yongbyon - which produced the fissile material for its small nuclear arsenal - under the eyes of U.S. inspectors. Christopher Hill, Washington's point man on North Korea, made it clear...
...increase in carbon dioxide in the near future will come from outside the developed world. But while funders are flocking to CDM, with over 1,500 projects in the pipeline by the end of 2006, the vast majority of those are in rapidly growing China and to a lesser extent India. Indonesia - a country of 234 million, which hosted the U.N.'s climate change conference in December - is involved in just 2% of global CDM projects. That needs to increase, and fast, for Indonesia and the rest of the world...
...money laundering. Other evidence has amassed in France and Poland indicating extensive investments and shady deals. In one striking case, Pakistani investigators reportedly found that a gold dealer deposited $10 million dollars in one of Zardari’s accounts for exclusive trading rights in Pakistan. The total extent of the corruption may still lie in shadow. Perhaps Bhutto truly would have revived Pakistan’s democracy, which has been on life support under President Pervez Musharraf. And perhaps she would have been the best prime minister for both the Pakistani people and the interests of the United States...
...Affecting up to 90% of women in Egypt, Sudan and Somalia, FGM is widely seen as an African phenomenon. But it also happens to a lesser extent throughout the Middle East, particularly in Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Iraq...
Behind Pakistan's swings between military government and democracy lies a continuity of élitist interests: to some extent, Pakistan's industrial, military and landowning classes are all interrelated, and they look after one another. They do not, however, do much for the poor. The government education system barely functions in Pakistan, and for the have-nots, justice is almost impossible to come by. This pushes the poor into the arms of fundamentalists...