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High cost of lost opportunity in Mideast conflictGENEVA - Violence in the Middle East has cost the region around $12 trillion in missed economic growth and development over the last two decades, a Swiss government-sponsored report said last Friday. More » |
ANALYSIS: For Cuba and U.S., making up is hard to doHAVANA - Raul Castro says Barack Obama seems like a good guy, and his brother Fidel says no one can doubt his sincerity. The new U.S. president wants to sit down and negotiate, and is in a better position to do so than any other since Eisenhower. More » |
Top official says U.N. peacekeepers overstretchedUNITED NATIONS - After a decade of unprecedented growth, the U.N.'s peacekeeping efforts are overstretched with 113,000 military, police and civilians deployed in 18 missions on five continents, a top U.N. official said last Friday. More » |
