• The news from the Horn of Africa today is horrific: Drought and famine are spreading throughout the region, exacerbated by the derailment of aid shipments by the militant group al-Shabab, resulting in tens of thousands of deaths with little resolution in sight.

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  • The 6to4 protocol is the latest in a series of tools being developed by the IETF to aid in the transition of the 'Net from IPv4 to IPv6.

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  • Far more persuasive are the welter of academic studies analysing the impact of aid by looking econometrically at the experience of many countries over the past 40 years.

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  • Lucy Hocking's was joined on BBC World News by Baroness Cox, the founder of the Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust charity and by Nurul Islam, of the Arakan Rohingya National Organisation.

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  • His cross provided the first chance of the game for Sami Khedira, whose header was saved by Diego Benaglio with the aid of the inside of his post.

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  • The subsidies, however, make consumers less resistant to tuition increases, which makes it easier for universities to do just that: increase tuition, often by the amount of the federal aid.

    FORBES: It's Well Past Time To Slash Higher Education Subsidies

  • Were donor agencies fully to comply with this requirement and transact their aid at the official rate, around 90% of the value of their aid would be captured by the central bank, which would be purchasing the aid dollars at around a tenth of their value.

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  • Difficult negotiations still lie ahead on the amount of agricultural and regional aid to be received by the new members, which could be at the expense of existing aid to EU members like Greece, Spain, and Ireland.

    BBC: EBRD attacks migration backlash

  • McCurry said the goal of the multinational task force is two-fold: to facilitate the delivery of humanitarian aid by civilian relief organizations and repatriation of refugees by the U.N.

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  • As investors already know, by coming to the aid of nine of the largest financial institutions last year--the government already created the basis for that list.

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  • The stylish curves of the camera's ergonomic design further aid image capture by placing all of the key controls right at your fingertips.

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  • So my administration has tried to do our part by making sure that the student loan program puts students before banks, by increasing aid like the Pell grants for millions of students and their families, and by allowing students to cap their monthly loan payments at 10 percent of their income, which means that their repayment schedule is manageable.

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  • Most of all, residents are angered by the slow distribution of rebuilding aid.

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  • By the by, though conscious that Western aid has kept millions of his people from starving, he complains about the relative failure of Western investors to put their faith in Ethiopia's economy.

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  • We also assume that the interest charged on all maturing and new borrowing is 5%, in line with the cost of the aid offered by Greece's euro-zone partners.

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  • Both the foundation's and Wipro's philanthropic efforts share a common philosophy: They seek to offer the recipients of aid an ownership stake by often requiring them to pick up some of the tab.

    FORBES: Azim Premji: India's Bill Gates

  • The architect, who studied in Wisconsin, had been shocked when, on a visit home to the town of Buea, he was confronted with a community ravaged by AIDS. Though aid workers were teaching the message of prevention, Menyoli found that most locals trusted foreigners more readily when they said that HIV was not a lie or a conspiracy but a fatal disease.

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  • When he addressed the conference, Justice Secretary Chris Grayling was heckled about changes to legal aid by members of the Criminal Bar Association, including barrister Andrew Taylor, a former Tory candidate.

    BBC: David Cameron urges Welsh Tories to fight 'battle of ideas'

  • But U.S. officials and Afghan police have long suspected New Ansari of being a key cog in the Afghanistan corruption machine that is fueled by mountains of aid money and illicit funds earned by drug lords and the Taliban.

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  • Russia - a close ally of President Assad - has said the promises of aid to the opposition made by the US and other countries in the "Friends of Syria" group will encourage further violence rather than a negotiated solution.

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  • "Resolving the dilemma posed by aid dependence requires a radical rethinking of the relationships among Africa's civil society, governments, and donors, " the World Bank says.

    BBC: African economies 'in reverse'

  • The land was sold by the Welsh Development Agency to INTEGRA, an Ammanford-based business development company, and developed with a grant from the aid package announced by the assembly in the wake of the Corus closures.

    BBC: Job hopes for steel town

  • The auditors call for a more balanced distribution of farm aid, either by capping higher individual payments or by assessing the specific circumstances of the farms.

    BBC: EU auditors deplore wasted farm aid in Eastern Europe

  • The black and yellow buildings, once known as "the lighthouses of the road", were first installed by the Automobile Association (AA) in the 1920s to aid motorists who had broken down long before the days of mobile phones.

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  • At the same time those on the ground were aggrieved by the inefficient delivery of that aid.

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  • Volunteers are being sought by the Church of England to aid its chaplaincy service at two Shropshire hospitals.

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  • But Stefan Mueller, parliamentary leader of the junior coalition party, Christian Social Union, called on Mrs Merkel to go further, by linking development aid to the treatment of Christians in relevant countries.

    BBC: Coptic churches in Europe report attack threats

  • Not surprisingly, the Afghanistan government is determined to cash in, especially since the United States plans to pull out most of its combat troops by the end of 2014 and reduce accompanying aid in the coming years.

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  • He calculates that the US spends almost three times as much on subsidies for cotton as it does on aid for the whole of Africa and argues the harm done by unfair trade cancels out any benefits from aid.

    BBC: Here in Texas they call it white gold.

  • He was among roughly 3, 800 refugees, dubbed the Lost Boys of Sudan by reporters and aid workers, who were resettled in cities across the United States.

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