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/ 27 February 2008
By the end of the year half of the world’s population will be living in cities for the first time in history, the United Nations said in a report released on Tuesday. According to the report, by the year 2050 there will be 6,4-billion people living in cities, up from 3,3-billion now.
The Group of Eight (G8) club of industrialised nations said on Friday it would back ”further measures” against Iran and Sudan if they continued to reject United Nations Security Council demands on both countries. As expected, the members said they regretted the fact that Tehran had ignored three UN Security Council resolutions.
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/ 7 December 2006
Demands for bribes from police and other public officials is a major problem across the developing world and even European Union countries like the Czech Republic and Greece are major offenders, a corruption watchdog said on Thursday. ”Corruption has infiltrated public life and burrowed in,” said Robin Hodess, policy and research director at Transparency International.