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• Kenya: 10 million risk hunger after harvests fail
NAIROBI, Kenya - Ten million people risk going hungry in Kenya after harvests failed because of drought, the government said Friday. The government declared a national emergency and will lift the import duty on corn until the next major harvest ...
• Greece riots rise again as youths, police clash
A protester kicks a tear gas canister at riot police during clashes in central Athens on Friday. The fighting started after a group of demonstrators broke away from a student rally attended by several thousand people protesting government education ...
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The big change between now and a couple of months ago is that the government is backing Citigroup’s balance sheet,” said Gary Townsend, a veteran analyst who now runs hedge fund Hill-Townsend Capital. “The government has a lot of leverage that ...
• Report: NASA inspector general not effective
WASHINGTON - Congressional auditors say that NASA's in-house financial watchdog is doing little to unearth waste and abuse at the space agency. The Government Accountability Office compared NASA's inspector general to 27 other federal agencies and ...
• More Americans obese than merely overweight
WASHINGTON - The number of obese American adults outweighs the number of those who are merely overweight, according to the latest statistics from the federal government. Numbers posted by the National Center for Health Statistics show that more than ...