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Tiny Malta feels pressure of immigrant traffic
VALLETTA, Malta (Reuters) - More densely populated than Bangladesh, Malta has little room to house illegal immigrants. Even the newcomers, fleeing to Europe from war and poverty in ...
Madagascar hopes Bush fund will boost rural economy
AMPEFY, Madagascar (Reuters) - Jean-de-Dieu Randriamihaja has heard a lot about U.S. President George W. Bush's flagship development fund for poor nations like his.
Mexican Indians preserve epic endurance race
CEROCAHUI, Mexico (Reuters) - Mexico's Tarahumara Indians are struggling to preserve one of the world's toughest endurance contests: a race of up to 100 miles over flinty mountain ...
Burkina cotton growers not reaping what they sow
HOUNDE, Burkina Faso (Reuters) - Bent double beneath the harsh midday sun, seven women with babies tightly bound to their backs pluck at clusters of "white gold."
Whirling dervishes reel in tourists in Turkey
KONYA, Turkey (Reuters) - Irina and her friends have no regrets about traveling thousands of miles from their native Latvia to this gray Anatolian town in mid-December. But then they ...
Ugly battles strain Berlin-Hamburg relations
BERLIN (Reuters) - A row between Germany's two biggest cities over attempts to snatch each other's businesses has degenerated into ugly name-calling and torn open historical ...
Czech Cold War TV spy becomes double agent
PRAGUE (Reuters) - Imagine if Britons found out that James Bond spied for Russia.
Prostitute tells all in Brazilian bestseller
SAO PAULO, Brazil (Reuters) - Just two months ago, Raquel Pacheco was making a living as a high-end call girl, turning tricks with up to five men a day in an apartment in a swank ...
Bad taste triumphs in "The Producers" movie
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bad taste triumphs again as dancing Nazis, randy old ladies, flamboyant gays and a Swedish bombshell frolic in Mel Brooks' mad world of two scheming Jewish ...
Prostitute tells all in bestseller
SAO PAULO, Brazil (Reuters) - Just two months ago, Raquel Pacheco was making a living as a high-end call girl, turning tricks with up to five men a day in an apartment in a swank ...
Getty trial spotlights Italy tomb raiders
ARPI, Italy (Reuters) - Say 'tomb raider' to Francesco Racano and he doesn't think of a Hollywood action movie hero. He fights the real thing.
Tourists unfazed by bird flu in Asia
HONG KONG (Reuters) - The spread of bird flu in Asia does not appear to be putting off tourists but local officials are nervous, fearing a repeat of the SARS outbreak two years ago, ...
Dutch forger displays work after fooling artists
ZWOLLE, Netherlands (Reuters) - A master of his craft, painter Geert Jan Jansen was always happiest when his works were mistaken for those of other artists.
Europe seems far away in unstable southeast Turkey
HAKKARI, Turkey (Reuters) - In the shadow of mountains bordering Iraq and Iran, Turkey's Hakkari province may one day be an outpost of the European Union. But for now, it feels cut ...
In China, honest toil is good for business
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Pressure on Western firms to improve conditions at factories in China is paying off, experts say, with some firms granting workers rights that are still taboo ...
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