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Having two global business newspapers owned, even partly, by one of the world's largest companies would create a potentially devastating conflict of interest.
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The ongoing war between Ethiopia and Eritrea is counted as perhaps the largest, most devastating conflict the world has seen in some time, while the conflicts inside Sierra Leone, Sudan and the Congo have sapped countless of millions of dollars from the continent's economy, and claimed perhaps hundreds of thousands of lives.
CNN: Clinton says U.S. will be 'friend for life' of Africa
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"They were destroyed in the context of the conflict devastating Afghanistan and to undermine the power of culture as a cohesive force for the Afghan people, " said UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova in a statement Monday.
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"This case highlights a conflict of interest that arose between UBS and its customers and the devastating effect that such conflict had on those customers, " says the complaint by William Galvin, Massachusetts's top securities regulator, who has targeted Wall Street for alleged misdeeds in the credit crisis.
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Almost six million Poles, including the majority of the country's large Jewish population, died during the devastating six-year conflict.
CNN: Poland: From Soviet satellite to 'Tiger of Europe'
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"Potentially, AIDS is more devastating to the country than armed conflict and landmines, " says UNICEF's child-protection officer, Margie de Monchy.
CNN: A DEEPENING TRAGEDY
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"This utterly unacceptable escalation of the conflict could lead to a devastating loss of civilian life and a humanitarian disaster, " he said.
BBC: Middle East
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In 1949, in the aftermath of two devastating global wars, new Geneva Conventions were developed to codify the laws of armed conflict and to limit the activities of combatants with respect both to other combatants and to non-combatants.
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