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• Financial crisis may worsen mental health woes
GENEVA - The global financial crisis is likely to cause increased mental health problems and even suicides as people struggle to cope with poverty and unemployment, the World Health Organization warned on Thursday. Hundreds of millions of people ...
• New exhibit puts focus on Gordon Parks
From the forgotten lives defined by violence and poverty to the unguarded moments of the rich and famous, he captured the human condition in a way that few others artists have. “Bare Witness,” an exhibit opening this weekend at the Delaware Art ...
• U.S., India sign unprecedented nuclear deal
India's government hopes the deal will bring a new source of desperately needed energy as it works to lift millions out of poverty. Mukherjee said his country looks forward to working with American companies eager to enter India's multibillion-dollar ...
• Dozens of migrants missing, feared drowned
They move because they are compelled because of conflict...or by extreme poverty," appealed Guterres. He urged the international community to look "not only for pirates but also to look for these (human trafficking) situations in the Gulf of Aden." He ...