Archive for the ‘Reports’ Category

03.11
10

Reports from the desert

by Javier ·

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desert report

A few days ago I arrived in Atar, inside the country, in the desert. I will spend ten days here before continuing further north where the train will overtake the world’s longest and flowing through the desert loaded with iron ore to reach the coast at Nouadhibou. The latter is the second largest city in the country and famous for being the starting point of the canoes that come to the Canary Islands. I’ll be there almost a couple of weeks and I’m dedicating the month of February to travel a bit to hear what my colleagues in the other mission stations.
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03.10
10

Always poor dies

by benjamin ·

The accounting of the pharmaceutical industry can not keep up, adding orders for antiviral and calculating the benefits in their coffers will finally called the Influenza A. And governments are trying to reassure the public by publishing the quantities of drugs they cherish in their stores. Roche Laboratories need not make any investment in advertising to sell massively famous Tamiflu, as noted by the world press as the main action against the dreaded disease, while speculating about hypothetical scenarios virus mutations drawing frightening invite a massive ‘purchase preventive’ magic dust against the pandemic.
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03.9
10

The Chilean infrastructure repairs would cost U.S. $ 1,200 million

by admin ·

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After one of the strongest earthquake on record, the Chilean infrastructure held up quite well, but the cost of repairing damage will total $ 1,200 million, said on Monday the Minister of Public Works in Chile, Sergio Bitar .
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03.8
10

The “enemy” of women is still living at home

by admin ·

37% of calls to the line ‘Do not streets’ is where women are abused at home.

Physical, psychological and sexual violence remains a scourge for
women of the Cauca Valley. This was revealed by calls received during the
2009 in line streets Do not care, which is run by the
Ministry of Gender Equality and the Department.

According to the study, a total of 119 calls received during the past year,
37.8% are isolated cases of domestic violence, in which
are involved partners and former partners and sometimes their own children
who assault their mothers.
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03.8
10

U.S. government closed four banks, 26 closed in the year

by admin ·

fdicThe U.S. government closed four banks in the states of Maryland, Illinois, Florida and Utah, bringing to 26 the number of institutions closed due to insolvency so far this year.
The decision puts more pressure on the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC by its English acronym), which guarantees bank deposits up to $ 250,000, and must get rid of a growing mountain of depreciated assets.
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03.8
10

With more than 90% of votes against, Iceland rejects the settlement agreement to the UK and Netherlands

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islandiaprotesta2The Wall Street Journal
Icelanders flatly rejected a deal to return to the UK and Holland 3,900 million (U.S. $ 5,300 million) lost in the collapse of an Internet bank in the country, complicating the efforts of the island to access international financing needed to normalize relations with the rest of the country.
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