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Economists: Britain’s austerity plan to hit poor (AP)

October 21st, 2010

In this screen grab from the House of Commons, British Chancellor George Osborne, centre, delivers the Comprehensive Spending Review, in London. Wednesday Oct. 20, 2010. Britain's Treasury chief George Osborne says the country's government will make the largest cuts to public spending since World War II, slashing benefits and public sector jobs in a five-year austerity plan. Osborne said Wednesday he had ordered 83 billion pounds ($130 billion) in spending cuts through 2015, which he claims are necessary alongside tax increases to wipe out a spending deficit which reached 156 billion pounds last year. At left is Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron, and at right, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg. (AP Photo/PA) ** UNITED KINGDOM OUT **AP - Britain’s poor and powerful clashed Thursday over who will lose out most under austerity measures that will slash benefits, jobs and government services to reduce the country’s crippling…

Poor security to keep more Afghan polls closed (AP)

September 8th, 2010

Afghan children look at a burning pile of 5 tons of expired medicines, on the outskirts of Jalalabad, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010. (AP Photo/ Rahmat Gul)AP - Afghan election officials said Wednesday that scores of additional polling stations will be closed during the Sept. 18 parliamentary vote because of the deteriorating security situation in the…

Poor get better health care in post-quake Haiti (AP)

May 11th, 2010

In this May 7, 2010 photo, doctors look at an X-ray using sunlight coming through a door's window in an emergency room at the General Hospital of Port-au-Prince. From cracked hospitals to tent-camp clinics, aid groups are working furiously to treat patients amid failing generators and disappearing supplies while simultaneously struggling to build institutions from the rubble. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)AP - The 6-month-old baby boy was rushed to the field hospital near death in a donated ambulance, his body trembling in shock.


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