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Taleban's '$100m opium takings'
" Taleban insurgents took an estimated $100m (£50m) from Afghanistan's opium trade in 2007, the head of the UN's anti-narcotics agency told the BBC. Antonio Maria Costa, head of the United Nations Office on...
The truth about Orihuela Costa - 'jewel' of Spain's Costa Blanca - homed at: ...
I write as an ex-pat with 9 years of experience of life in this part of Spain.
I am so shocked about what is happening here now that although I am now retired and a former journalist and a bit before the days of the... 
'Unremittingly Bleak' Scottish Writer Wins Costa Book Award
Congratulation to novelist Alison 'A.L.' Kennedy for her Costa 'Book of the Year' Award win. As a sometime stand-up comedian, however, her book doesn't sound quite like the 'pick me up' one might imagine could spring...
Costa Book Award List Announced
The category winners for the prestigious Costa Book Awards have been announced. The top five shortlisted authors will now compete for the 2007 Costa Book of the Year award which will be announced on January...
Costa Rica Plants 5 Million Trees to Combat Climate Change
Other countries prone to acts of mass deforestation and massive carbon output should take notice. This isn't a token low-emission light bulb replacement strategy, Costa Rica is taking necessary actions toward...
RI-Timor Leste agree to complete border negotiation January 2008
"Timor Leste`s foreign minister visited Jakarta early this week to talk about a number of topics with his Indonesian counterpart including those on PM Xanana`s planned visit, the RI-Timor Leste Commission for Truth...
Costa Rica gets forest fund boost
"The US and conservation groups will cut $26m (£12.8m) from Costa Rican debt in return for the country spending the same sum on forest protection. Costa Rica will spend the money over the next 16 years on large swathes of its tropical forest. It hopes to help conserve such...
U.S. is expanding it's backyard
"The CAFTA doesn't includes agricultural products, that meas U.S can sale all manufatured product, financial and services what they have to Latin America without buy nothing from there. What industrial product Costa... 
Costa Rica leader: U.S. trade deal passes
"Costa Ricans on Sunday appeared to narrowly vote in favor of joining the Central American Free Trade Agreement with the U.S., and President Oscar Arias declared victory for the pact. But with results so far contradicting most earlier polls, the opposition balked at conceding...Make your way to Almeria and enjoy the Spanish sunshine
"The Costa Almeria is one of those areas, and property investments here are showing returns well above the national Spanish average – a fact that has not been ignored by the Spanish authorities, to the extent that improvements to the local infrastructure and road networks...
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