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...INFLATION 7.1% Inflation rate in China last month, the highest in 11 years. Inflation was made worse by severe winter storms that paralyzed parts of the country's economy 18% Estimated average increase in food prices due to crop losses and transportation delays...
...deeply concerned about something else: what kind of country has just been created, and what kind of life its citizens will have. Kosovo holds three European records: it has the highest unemployment, the worst infant-mortality rate and the lowest living standards on the Continent. The latest Human Rights Watch report chronicles widespread oppression and discrimination of non-Albanian ethnic minorities - Serbs, Turks and Roma - along with organized crime, rampant corruption and a dysfunctional justice system...
...Stanley, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Jeane Kirkpatrick had been the guest of honor at a dinner hosted by Argentine Ambassador Takacs, an extraordinary accident of timing by the Argentines, if it was an accident. With Kirkpatrick at the function was Deputy Secretary of State Walter J. Stoessel, the highest-ranking U.S. career diplomat. Trying to explain the embarrassment, the State Department said only that the affair had been scheduled long before the invasion. British Ambassador Henderson noted the attendance of Kirkpatrick and Stoessel at the dinner and declared sarcastically: "We are not thrilled...
...will be almost wholly benign. Since 2003, the U.S. government has spent $15 billion on care and treatment for AIDS under the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). The program has helped 1.4 million people in 15 countries, most of them in Africa, the continent with the highest HIV/AIDS infection...
...Kajee suggests that the places not on Bush's itinerary but nevertheless bearing some degree of a U.S. footprint will also have some impact on how the current Administration is viewed. "To ignore the Horn of Africa, which is the region with the highest rate of humanitarian need in the world, is a bit of a slap in the face for citizens of those countries," said Kajee. "It's very significant that he has chosen not to visit Kenya or Ethiopia when the U.S. is so close to both. It seems opposed to the stated U.S. focus on Africa...