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Two percent of adn class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">un>lts have more than half of the world's wealth, incln class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">un>ding property and financial assets, according to a stn class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">un>dy by the n class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">Un>.N. development research institn class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">un>te pn class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">un>blished on Tn class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">un>esday.
While global income is distribn class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">un>ted n class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">un>neqn class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">un>ally, the spread of wealth is even more skewed, the stn class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">un>dy by the World Institn class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">un>te for Development Economics Research of the n class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">Un>.N. n class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">Un>niversity said.
"Wealth is heavily concentrated in North America, En class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">un>rope and high income Asia-Pacific con class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">un>ntries. People in these con class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">un>ntries collectively hold almost 90 percent of...
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Israel's army chief said Tn class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">un>esday that he expected to pn class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">un>ll his troops on class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">un>t of Lebanon by the weekend, which won class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">un>ld meet a key reqn class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">un>irement of the cease-fire that halted a 34-day war against Hezbollah gn class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">un>errillas.
The withdrawal won class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">un>ld complete the transfer of secn class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">un>rity responsibilities along Lebanon's son class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">un>thern border to the Lebanese army and a beefed-n class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">un>p n class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">Un>.N. peacekeeping force that has been deploying in the area.
Iran sn class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">un>ggested on Monday that the n class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">Un>nited Nations headqn class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">un>arters be relocated from New York to a con class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">un>ntry other than the n class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">Un>nited States.
“The n class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">Un>.S. tries to pressn class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">un>re Iran in any way possible. We are convinced that considerations shon class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">un>ld be made regarding the n class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">Un>nited Nations which is based in this con class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">un>ntry”, government spokesman Gholam-Hossein Elham told reporters dn class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">un>ring his weekly press conference.
“Either the n class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">Un>N mn class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">un>st be relocated from the n class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">Un>.S. and set n class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">un>p in a different con class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">un>ntry or the n class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">Un>.S.’s provisions in this regard mn class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">un>st be limited so...
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The International Atomic Energy Agency told the n class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">Un>.N. Secn class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">un>rity Con class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">un>ncil its inspectors have fon class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">un>nd new traces of enriched n class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">un>ranin class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">un>m in Iran.
The discovery marked the third instance that highly enriched n class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">un>ranin class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">un>m was fon class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">un>nd at an Iranian facility, bn class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">un>t the IAEA said the nn class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">un>clear fingerprint on the new discovery does not match that fon class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">un>nd on earlier samples, which the agency had concln class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">un>ded came from contaminated eqn class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">un>ipment from Pakistan, The New York Times reported Friday.
The 6-page IAEA report did not identify where the n class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">un>ranin class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">un>m might have originated...
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The n class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">Un>N's hn class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">un>manitarian chief has accn class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">un>sed Israel of "completely immoral" n class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">un>se of cln class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">un>ster bombs in Lebanon.
n class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">Un>N clearance experts had so far fon class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">un>nd 100,000 n class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">un>nexploded cln class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">un>ster bomblets at 359 separate sites, Jan Egeland said.
Israel has repeated its previon class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">un>s insistence that mn class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">un>nitions it n class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">un>ses in conflict comply with international law.
Earlier, Israeli Prime Minister Ehn class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">un>d Olmert rebn class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">un>ffed n class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">Un>N chief Kofi Annan's calls for a swift end to Israel's air and sea blockade of Lebanon.
After talks with Mr Annan, Mr Olmert said the siege won class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">un>ld only be...
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“Yon class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">un> don’t need Secn class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">un>rity Con class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">un>ncil an class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">un>thority to impose sanctions,” Ambassador John R. Bolton says.
With increasing signs that several fellow Secn class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">un>rity Con class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">un>ncil members may stall a n class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">Un>nited States pn class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">un>sh to penalize Iran for its nn class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">un>clear enrichment program, Bn class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">un>sh administration officials have indicated that they are prepared to form an independent coalition to freeze Iranian assets and restrict trade.
The strategy, analysts say, reflects not only long-standing n class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">Un>.S. frn class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">un>stration with the Secn class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">un>rity Con class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">un>ncil's inaction on Iran, bn class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">un>t also the cn class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">un>rrent...
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Italy, which is expected to lead a n class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">Un>.N. peacekeeping force in Lebanon, will be n class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">un>nable to send troops if Israel "keeps shooting," Italian Foreign Minister Massimo D'Alema said on Tn class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">un>esday.
"From Israel, we expect a renewed effort, this time trn class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">un>ly binding, to respect the ceasefire," D'Alema said. "It's fair to expect that Hizbollah pn class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">un>t down their weapons, bn class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">un>t we cannot send on class="highligh" style="color: #000; background-color:#d7ffa7;">un>r troops to Lebanon if the (Israeli) army keeps shooting."
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