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Guardian/ICM poll to mark 100 days of coalition shows strong support for government’s cuts-based recovery strategy David Cameron’s first 100 days in Downing Street have witnessed the coalition win the key argument over the economy with a Guardian/ICM poll today showing that voters back austerity measures to reduce Britain’s record peacetime budget deficit. The monthly [...]
A suicide bomber blew himself up Tuesday among dozens of Iraqi army recruits who had gathered near a military headquarters in downtown Baghdad in a devastating strike that officials said killed dozens of people. » E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us
Sixty confirmed dead in central Baghdad as new entrants to Iraqi army targeted in attack At least 60 Iraqi army recruits and soldiers were killed and dozens more injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up outside an army base in the centre of Baghdad this morning. The attack – the deadliest in the Iraqi [...]
Rescue workers in Pakistan face another day of trying to provide clean water and food to millions of people displaced by flooding. The United Nations warns that more than three million children are at risk of diseases carried by contaminated water and insects. Khurram Masood, of Save the Children in Pakistan, talks to Linda Wertheimer [...]
Inflation has been at 3% or above throughout this year, overshooting the Bank of England’s government-set target of 2% Inflation eased back as expected last month but is still well above the Bank of England’s target, meaning governor Mervyn King has had to write yet another letter of explanation to the chancellor. The Office for [...]
NPR’s Michele Norris talks to Molly Kinder, a senior policy analyst at the Center for Global Development, who is leading the center’s work on a U.S. development strategy for Pakistan. They discuss why relief has been slow to reach the flood-hit country. » E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us
