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World Bank President Jim Yong Kim said universal health insurance coverage in all countries can help achieve a goal of ending extreme poverty by 2030.
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A symbolic vote at the United Nations General Assembly today reflected a decline in support for the Syrian opposition as the two-year conflict drags on.
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(Updates with additional comments from Zeev Elkin in 8th paragraph.)
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The first international treaty regulating the $70 billion global arms trade was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly yesterday in a vote that came amid a U.S. debate on gun control.
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The European Union is working to make tax systems around the world more fair as the 27-nation bloc moves to clamp down on tax evasion, European Commission President Jose Barroso will say today in a speech in New York.
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When President Barack Obama delivers his main address in Israel this week, it won’t be to the nation’s parliament. Instead, his audience will largely consist of students.
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Hugo Chavez, the self-declared socialist who transformed Venezuelan politics by channeling record oil revenue to the poor, nationalizing corporations and vilifying foes as U.S. imperialist puppets, has died. He was 58.
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Hillary Clinton made a pit stop in the Czech Republic on her 79th and probably last overseas trip as U.S. secretary of state.
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President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney both spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by phone yesterday amid a campaign debate over how to stop Iran from getting a nuclear weapon.
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When he was Merrill Lynch & Co.’s global head of foreign exchange in London in 1998, the ever- cheerful John Key was nicknamed “the smiling assassin” after he fired some 50 members of his team.
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