Word: nio
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...sects, according to Syrian human-rights groups. Only Jordan--which has received 750,000 Iraqis but has stopped accepting more--comes close to matching Syria's largesse. "The price of this disaster is being paid mainly by the refugees themselves and by two countries: Syria and Jordan," says António Guterres, the U.N.'s High Commissioner for Refugees. "The international community can't let [them] bear this burden alone...
...Prime Minister for the past six years, António Guterres, quit in December after his Socialist Party (PS) was trounced in municipal elections by its main rival, the Social Democratic Party (PSD). Guterres had two years left in his term but felt bound to step down after such a huge slap, the worst part of which was that the Social Democrats captured the City Hall in Lisbon for the first time since the 1974 revolution that ended decades of dictatorship. With general elections on March 17, many Portuguese commentators think Guterres stepped aside just in time for the country...
...Nio expert, Schrag tracks its ongoing changes and also reconstructs the pattern of El Nios in the last 125,000 years...