I’m afraid there’s more bad news for pessimists. On Thursday, the United Nations announced that for the first time in modern history the number of young children dying around the world has fallen below 10 million a year.
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Global efforts to promote childhood immunization, breast-feeding and anti-malaria measures have helped cut by nearly a quarter the death rate of children under age 5 since 1990, UNICEF said on Wednesday.
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GATINEAU, Que. – Quebec’s travelling commission on reasonable accommodation seemed headed for a rocky start, with one co-chairman absent as he convalesced from arm surgery and the other apologizing “to all Quebecers” for implying in a recent interview that they lack intellectual depth.
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When the Toronto International Film Festival began in 1976 it went by the name The Festival of Festivals, a highfalutin moniker that made it sound like the mother of all festivals.
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One of Desire Munyaneza’s lawyers suggested Tuesday that the head RCMP investigator on the war crimes case was in a conflict of interest when he wrote a letter in support of another suspected participant in the genocide.
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