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In both 2008 and 2012, Copenhagen Consensus projects focusing on global development priorities concluded that policymakers and philanthropists should make fighting malnourishment a top priority.
As Saudi officials have observed, Iranian militias fighting the Islamic State in predominantly Sunni regions north and west of Baghdad hope to reinforce their country’s control over Iraq.
Indeed, the US has ended up indirectly allied with Hezbollah, a key Iranian proxy, which is fighting alongside Assad’s troops against foreign jihadi forces.
Serious fighting only broke out after supporters of Mubarak began to attack the crowds.
In Tamaulipas, the Golfo and Zetas gangs, former partners, are fighting to the death.
Its implicit mission is to discourage Iran from venturing across the Shatt river border, contested territory and scene of the most intense fighting of the eight-year Iran-Iraq war.
And perhaps it would do no good; it might save a few lives, they argue, but, with so many different countries fighting a proxy war via so many different groups of opposition fighters, it would not change the overall dynamic of the conflict.
Yet they do tend to wait for crises to erupt before they invest in fighting infectious diseases.
People aren't fighting over scarce housing or lucrative jobs.
That does not mean that activists should abandon the cause for which they are fighting.
This is not about a race to the bottom; so, at the same time, Britain has been leading the way in fighting tax avoidance and evasion.
Now we are fighting back, and the message to the world is clear: the UK is open for business.
The thought of France and Germany fighting each other again seems impossible, and the development of the European Union has greatly enhanced Europe’s attractiveness and soft power in the world.
The UN and many countries officially share the view that bio-fuel is one option in fighting climate change.
By doing so, the country has done a great disservice to the cause of fighting climate change.
The urgent need in Lebanon is that Israeli attacks stop, that Lebanon’s regular military forces control the southern region of the country, that Hezbollah cease as a separate fighting force, and future attacks against Israel be prevented.
Millions of Europeans resist seeing Israel as a country fighting for its survival.
Those fighting to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS thus have a new tool in their arsenal.
The outcome matters – which is why governments are fighting over it.
A number of field reports described contacts between the ISI and the Taliban, even as the ISI was engaged in fighting some the Taliban in Pakistan.
This reliable funding source has spearheaded the fight on the three health-related MDGs: treating and fighting life-threatening diseases like HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis; reducing childhood mortality; and improving maternal health.
But more is needed, and September’s summit in New York will be an important opportunity for countries to voice their full-throated support for innovative financing mechanisms, and thus give the MDGs a fighting chance.
The worst inter-communal fighting took place in the plains to the east of the Alawites’ mountain strongholds, raising the suspicion that Alawites were preparing for a retreat to their native region in the event of the regime’s collapse and were trying to expand the area under their control.
At the same time, serious fighting has now spread into the heart of Damascus.
Significantly, whereas the regime previously sought to downplay the challenge posed by the opposition, Syrian state television has covered the fighting in Damascus extensively.
Chaos and fighting could easily spill over into such weak neighboring states as Iraq and Lebanon.
Those realities call for continuous UN action on countless fronts: combating malaria and AIDS, reducing maternal and child mortality, fighting global terrorism, and ensuring nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation.
Rather than continue fighting (as in the US) after a heated presidential election, Mexico’s major political parties appear poised to cooperate on a number of critical structural reforms that could energize economic growth for decades to come.
Like their Algerian counterparts – who in 1992 approved of the Algerian army’s suppression of an Islamist electoral victory, leading to years of brutal fighting that left perhaps a half-million dead – many Egyptians didn’t mind repressing Islamists.
That anarchic fury reflected the disappointment of radicals at their leaders for prematurely surrendering to the authorities rather than fighting to their last breath.
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