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Washington (AFP) Sept 20, 2011 - Latin America should leverage China's strong buying of the region's raw materials to strengthen their own reforms and boost long-term growth prospects, the World Bank said Tuesday.
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Shanghai (AFP) Sept 15, 2013 - China is likely to achieve its growth target of 7.5 percent this year despite planned structural reforms to rebalance the world's second largest economy, the World Bank president said Sunday.
Jun 26, 2026
Beijing (AFP) Sept 2, 2009 - World Bank president Robert Zoellick said Wednesday it was too soon for China to roll back its massive stimulus measures as the world's third largest economy could yet falter on the road to recovery.
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Abidjan (AFP) Sept 19, 2022 - The World Bank on Monday urged five West African countries to diversify their economies to adapt to climate change, warning they are extremely vulnerable to extreme weather patterns.
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Washington (AFP) Sept 5, 2020 - The World Bank said Friday it was canceling a loan to fund a dam in Lebanon that environmentalists claimed could destroy a valley rich in biodiversity.
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Beijing (AFP) Sept 3, 2011 - World Bank chief Robert Zoellick warned Saturday that the global economy was heading into a new danger zone, as he urged China to speed up structural reforms to help its development.
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Freeport (AFP) Sept 23, 2012 - Being told to train his replacement was humiliating and surreal, but Tom Gaulrapp said the worst part was when the plant's US flag was taken down before the Chinese engineers arrived.
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Washington (AFP) Sept 1, 2011 - A 3.6-million-year-old woolly rhinoceros fossil discovered in Tibet indicates that some giant mammoths, sloths and saber-tooth cats may have evolved in highlands before the Ice Age, experts say.
Jun 26, 2026
Brussels, Belgium (AFP) Sept 18, 2025 - In two years steering EU climate policy, Wopke Hoekstra has gone some way to winning over green advocates wary of his corporate background. His challenge now is pursuing the bloc's goals as the wind shifts against climate action.
Jun 26, 2026
Lahore, Pakistan (AFP) Sept 1, 2022 - As aid organisations mobilise to provide relief for victims of Pakistan's catastrophic floods, one group of women is focused on a necessity that is frequently taboo in the conservative Islamic nation - menstrual hygiene products.
Jun 26, 2026
Yinchuan, China (AFP) Sept 18, 2024 - As the female winemaker who put Chinese vintages on the map for the first time, Zhang Jing of Helan Qingxue winery is a trailblazer, but no anomaly.
Jun 26, 2026
Paris (AFP) Sept 17, 2014 - A woman died after falling into a swollen river in France on Wednesday, the interior minister said, as heavy storms battered the south.
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Puebla De Sanabria, Spain (AFP) Sept 23, 2021 - A 4x4 pulls up on a dirt road in northwest Spain and livestock farmer Ana Vega climbs out, walking over to a ditch where a few days ago a wolf killed a calf.
Jun 26, 2026
Thessaloniki, Greece (AFP) Sept 30, 2025 - Hunters and farmers in Greece are demanding the right to cull wolves after one attacked a child on a beach this month, warning that the protected species is multiplying in the wild.
Jun 26, 2026
Diyarbakir, Turkey (AFP) Sept 18, 2009 - The trial of a Turkish colonel and six others over the alleged summary killing of 20 Kurds took a new turn Friday as two prosecution witnesses said they were forced to implicate the defendants.
Jun 26, 2026
Washington (AFP) Sept 3, 2017 - Hurricane Harvey's devastation will be among the costliest of any storm in US history but, with most not covered by insurance, victims are left hoping for government aid and community support.
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