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Tony Thomas reviews the UN's latest democratic triumph a global poll to discover what the people of the world care most about: As the UN puts it modestly, "Now citizens from around the world have an exciting opportunity, as never before, to be part ...

World News: 23:36 GMT Monday 17th June 2013. [Venezuela Initiative via PR Newswire] You are here: Home >> SPi World News >> World Market Sector News Venezuela's Struggle For Democracy, a conversation with Ramon Guillermo Aveledo, Executive ...

It really is amazing that there are so many interpretations of "democracy" worldwide. On one side we have Turkey, often called a model of democracy in the Muslim world, shooting water cannons and tear gas at people merely for calling for the ...

. To see more information, see the project information in the World Bank project database The objective of the Additional Financing for the Emergency Social Action Project for Congo, Democratic Republic of is to improve access to social services ...

(U.S. News & World Report) — As Senate democrats and President Barack Obama gear up for another round of gun control legislation, I find it ironic that the same lawmakers who think expanded background checks are useful in helping filter out who ...

World Missiles launch 'legitimate right': North Korea Beijing: The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) said on Monday that the country's missiles launch is only part of normal military training for self-defence, the official news agency KCNA ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo has been named as the worst place in the world to be a mother, reveals report. Countries in sub-Saharan Africa took up each of the bottom 10 places for the first time in the 14 years that the report has been produced. In ...

Libya got the result it was hoping for and most needed from the clash between Democratic Republic of Congo and Cameroon Sunday. They could only figure in a scoreless draw, which leaves Libya leading Group I of the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifiers by ...

As in Huxley, Philip Dick, and "The Matrix," we chose the simulacrum of democracy and freedom instead of the real things. American society has been sliding toward the realm of dystopian science fiction — toward a nightmarish mishmash of George ...