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Nearly 25 years ago, in July 1992, I issued, on behalf of Human Rights Watch (which I then directed), a call for the ICTY’s establishment.
And nearly a quarter-century later, the tribunal has exceeded expectations.
In November, nearly 30 Haitians perished when their boat ran aground on its way to the United States – the third case in the northern Caribbean since October.
The adjustments needed amount to a sizeable deficit-to-balance swing of around $700 billion in the US current account, or nearly 5% of US GNP.
In Latin America, nearly 80% of people already live in urban centers.
In 2007, Uganda supported the disastrous US-backed Ethiopian invasion of Somalia, which nearly flattened the capital Mogadishu, causing more than half of the city’s population to flee.
According to US government surveys, Uganda’s children are among the world’s least likely to complete primary school, and are nearly twice as likely as children in Kenya and Rwanda to die.
This means that in nearly all districts the second round will be a duel between Macron’s LREM and another party.
The Turkish lira has lost nearly half of its value over the last 12 months.
Against the background of nearly 2,000 years of Catholic thinking about “man’s dominion,” this is a revolutionary change.
Its decision to maintain output at current levels – effectively neutering the OPEC cartel – has already had a dampening effect on competing supplies; nearly $400 billion of fossil-fuel investments have been shelved.
The foremost example of this is the partial economic and monetary union that has been around for nearly two decades, and that must now become a full union if it is to be successful and deliver results.
An American Political TragedyBERLIN – US President Donald Trump’s nearly eight months in office have been characterized by a series of disturbing political developments.
For example, nearly $200 million provided by the World Bank and other donors to Ghana for telecommunications development in a 1988 development project had almost no measurable impact.
With oil exports accounting for nearly 90% of government revenue, the pressure on Saudi finances has been intense; the fiscal balance has swung from a small surplus in 2013 to a deficit of more than 21% of GDP in 2015, according to projections by the International Monetary Fund.
CAMBRIDGE – Eight years after triggering a crisis that nearly brought down the global financial system, the United States remains plagued by confusion about what reforms are needed to prevent it from happening again.
There is considerable (though not conclusive) evidence that it is not nearly as widespread – or as problematic – as many think.
By the beginning of 2017, 3.7 billion people, or nearly half the world’s population, were online.
With big data, machine learning, and the “Internet of Things,” some experts anticipate that the number of Internet connections may grow to nearly a trillion by 2035.
Following more than a year of deadlock, after negotiations in January 2011 led nowhere, this dialogue is for many the last chance to find a peaceful solution to a nearly decade-long conflict (in which I participated closely from 2006 to 2009 as the West’s main negotiator with Iran).
Manufacturing surcharges therefore amount to nearly a quarter of profit, putting a further squeeze on low-profit manufacturers.
The human rights movement has led nearly all countries to endorse human rights norms, at least in name.
In other words, the purpose of nearly one-third of the genes needed to keep the organism alive, well, and reproducing remains a mystery.
Harvard Business School Professors Katherine Gehl and Michael Porter argue that America’s two-party system “has become the major barrier to solving nearly every important challenge” facing the country.
Since 1992, the number of hungry people worldwide has plummeted by more than 200 million, even as the human population grew by nearly two billion.
The percentage of people starving has been nearly halved, from 19% to 11%.
He has become a nearly revered figure in his country, and large segments of Western public opinion believe that his political demise represents a potentially fatal blow to any hope of progress in the region, even as he remains hated in large parts of the Arab and Muslim world.
The approved goods included nearly 400 shipments of explosive and incendiary materials, 25,000 aircraft parts, 56,000 military electronics components and nearly 1,000 items of optical targeting and other guidance equipment.”
Tackling nearly 100% of today’s malaria problem would cost just one-sixtieth of the price of the Kyoto Protocol.
At stake is the presidency, but also positions for 27 state governors, 54 senators and nearly 1,600 elected officials.
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