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PAINFUL MEMORY - AMERICA
REMEMBERS
Two years after the September 11 terrorist attacks on the United States, people are gathering across the nation and around the world for ceremonies honoring the 3,016 people killed when four hijacked airplanes crashed into the World Trade Center towers, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field.
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Young
Girl Dies Hit by Lightning
A nine year old
girl, playing innocently with three other
children, was struck dead by a lighting bolt on
Wednesday. >more
Country
Nearing National Emergency Over Dengue Fever
With
still the crucial months ahead in the fight
against the Dengue fever entering in the
heaviest rainy period, health authorities
already report 10.511 cases to date since
January. >more
A Favourite for
Honeymooners
Costa Rica was chosen as the best destination for a honeymoon in the category "Best Adventure" in a survey by US magazine Modern Bride.
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Donation
for planetarium
The
Government of Japan donated Costa Rica
$427,000 destined for a planetarium, a
facility destined to improve the knowledge
of Costa Ricans on space sciences. >more
Blast kills 8, wounds 15 in Colombia
At least eight people were killed and 15 wounded on Wednesday when a horse loaded with explosives blew up in a village market in Colombia.
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Argentina, IMF reach accord on debt
Argentina and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Wednesday reached an agreement to settle the country's 3-billion-dollar debt, one day after Buenos Aires missed the loan repayment.
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WTO, UNIDO to assist
developing countries in international trade
World Trade Organization (WTO)
Director-General Supachai Panitchpakdi signed an
agreement with the United Nations Industrial
Development Organization (UNIDO)here on Wednesday,
in an effort to help developing countries
participate in international trade.
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SPECIAL
REPORTS: WTO-CANCUN
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'Serpents
Nest' Surrounded by Poverty
This
Mexican resort city on the Caribbean
coast was all decked out Wednesday for
the arrival of 146 trade ministers and
their entourages, but in the poor
neighbourhoods just beyond the luxurious
hotels nothing had changed.
Hotels are at 100-percent capacity this
week in the ”serpents nest”, the
English translation of the Maya word ”cancún”.
Posters and stickers repeating the
slogans ”Our life is tourism” and
”Take care of Cancun” popped up
throughout the city in the last few
days, in preparation for the World Trade
Organisation's Fifth Ministerial
Conference, Sep. 10 to 14. >more
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