Ann De Ron
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/ 29 January 2007

Euro birds ruffle African feathers

Europeans love chicken breast. That leaves the question — what do you do with the legs? The current answer is to freeze them and ship them to Africa, where they sell at a price far cheaper than fresh local chicken. Television journalist Marcello Faraggi has put this chicken-and-Africa story in a documentary shown at the European Parliament in Brussels.

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/ 3 November 2006

Report: Cluster bombs kill mainly civilians

Ninety-eight percent of registered victims of cluster bombs are civilians, Handicap International, a United Kingdom-based NGO, says in a report published on Thursday. The report, Fatal Footprint, was launched in several countries ahead of an international conference on conventional weapons starting in Geneva on November 7.