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"Dying for water", world marks environment day

LEBANON: June 9, 2003 BEIRUT - Seeking to ease a water crisis threatening a third of humanity, the United Nations marked world environment day with calls for governments to double aid to poor countries and for ordinary people to fix leaky taps.

US, Chile Sign Landmark Free Trade Treaty

Agence France Presse | June 6, 2003 MIAMI (AFP) - US and and Chilean officials signed the first free trade treaty between the United States and a South American country, seen as a stepping stone toward an America's free trade zone.

Week of Local Capacity-Building toward WTO in Cancun

INTERNATIONAL FORUM ON GLOBALIZATION | June 5, 2003 Week of Local Capacity-Building toward WTO in Cancun 6-13 June, 2003 IFG is collaborating with local community organizations in the Yucatan to share information and explore collaborative activities for the September 10-14, 2003 Ministerial of the World Trade Organization in Cancun.

Beside Blossoming Fields, Where Poverty Grows

New York Times | By ALAN COWELL | June 4, 2003 NAIVASHA, Kenya - The shores of the broad lake that spreads across Africa's Rift Valley here were known to outsiders a long time ago as a place where white settlers disported themselves on emerald lawns and shaded verandas, misbehaving blithely in an adopted continent and calling themselves the Happy Valley set.
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