They suggested doctors are now more likely to use either forceps or suction devices to aid delivery, or to give epidural pain relief.

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He declared that the United States would give up to a billion dollars in debt relief to Egypt and economic, trade and technical aid to the Egyptians and Tunisians.

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For the past few years the Ethiopian government, the WFP and others have been running hunger-relief programmes which give out not only food aid but seeds and help to turn wasteland into productive acres.

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