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World News Archive18-Apr-2006
- 'World Bank For New Method To Identify Hardcore Poor (Bernama)
DHAKA, April 18 (Bernama) -- The World Bank (WB) has introduced a new approach and techniques, known as the Proxy-Means Test (PMT) formula, for administrating a more objective, transparent and applicable targeting scheme to deliver subsidies to the hard core poor, Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS) news agency reported Monday.- 'US to urge other world powers to act against Iran (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
The United States will press other major world powers on Tuesday to consider what it called targeted sanctions against Iran as an April 30 U.N. deadline loomed for Tehran over its nuclear program.- 'Yo end of the world (Cavalier Daily Online)
I've got some bad news, people. I hate to say it, but I'm pretty sure the world is going to end soon. I can sum this realization up in two words "yo momma."- 'Top world powers meet on Iran nuclear impasse (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Top world powers were to meet here to synchronize efforts to defuse fears Iran could try to make an atomic bomb, though Tehran showed no sign of compromise over a nuclear program it says is strictly for generating energy.- 'Downloadable Beatles? Yesterday's News. (Washington Post)
Big news in the world of digital music: The Beatles are finally taking steps that might indicate that they're getting ready to consider selling their music as digital downloads, at a price and on a service and under conditions that remain unclear at the moment.- 'Reality of international life lost on network news (Daily Orange)
Lisa Ling wants to know when it became acceptable for an old white guy to sit in front of a television camera, tell viewers what to think about world issues and call it news. "When was the last time he was in Afghanistan or Iraq?" Ling asked. "When did that become news?" Ling spoke Monday night to an audience composed almost entirely of female students in Goldstein Auditorium.- 'Newport News Students Continue Lesson Half a World Away (WAVY 10)
Twenty-five Newport News students will spend their spring break learning. While that doesn't sound like much of a break, the students will be embarking on an adventure of a lifetime to Japan.
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