Associated Press | July 10, 2003
PARIS (AP) - French militant farmer Jose Bove's jail sentence will be reduced by four months in this year's traditional Bastille Day clemency, the government said Thursday.
Bove, best known for ransacking a McDonald's restaurant under construction in 1999, was jailed last month to serve 10 months for destroying genetically modified crops.
Miami Herald | By JANE BUSSEY | June 22, 2003
With just five months left before Miami is scheduled to host the region's trade ministers for a summit, organizers are still scrambling for the bulk of the $12 million needed for the event.
Agence France Presse | June 11, 2003
South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki on Wednesday urged the international community and rich countries to honour pledges made in recent years to curb world poverty.
Associated Press | June 1, 2003
SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) - Authorities raided two farms in Rondonia state and released 450 people working in debt slave conditions, the government news agency reported Sunday.
Press Association | By Tim Ross | May 30, 2003
Bob Geldof returned today to the area of Ethiopia worst hit by the 1984 famine.
His visit nearly 20 years' ago led him to mount the Live Aid campaign to help millions of starving people.
April 22, 2002
The recent consensus on global development adopted at a United Nations conference in Monterrey, Mexico, must be transformed into reality, Secretary-General Kofi Annan today told key finance ministers from across the world meeting with the UN Economic and Social Council in New York.
