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one billion people worldwide struggle to survive on $1 a day, that more than one billion people lack access to safe drinking water, and that 3 billion people have inadequate access to sanitation, we must not tolerate such situations.

Brende to ride environmental shotgun for Kofi Annan New Christian Democrat deputy leader says no to Labour Learn from Gro Harlem Brundtland!Call for Bondevik to explain his positionBondevik to sell whale meat to Japan Hafslund under investigationSAS ignores GabrielsenIceland only dissenter on Norwegian herringToday’s comment from Dagens Næringsliv

Stoltenberg feels sorry for Christian Democrats PM considers cut in high earners’ pensionsYoung Conservatives incensed by Svarstad Haugland’s comments Cannot afford to expel asylum seekers Minister warns SAS not to cut Norway’s role Lost faith in SASLabour calls for extension of unemployment benefit to three yearsEnd to neighbours’ interminable protestsGovernment ejects LO from the boardroomNorwegian power companies to start bidding war against the FinnsToday’s comment from Dagens Næringsliv

Those of us who live in Norway suffer from such generalizations because the black color increasingly gets identified with rape, murder, and drugs.

The amount spent on human rights work in the UN system. With The total budget of the Office of the High Commission for Human Rights at About $50 million a year, that is about 0.014 percent of the $355.5 billion defence budget adopted by the U.S. alone in October 2002.

Christian Democrats could break with Conservatives in 2005Labour wants to outbid the Finns Government would rather resign than be dictated toHafslund controversy is alarming Norwegian buyers, it is claimed Foreign investors shun Norwegian companiesMinister defends SAS cost-cutting exerciseMercury could halt whalingAdditional NOK 300 million in public chargesAdditional cash benefit leads to drop in birthrateToday’s comment from Aftenposten

NOK 1.8 billion cut in public spending needed Christian Democrats reject more tax cutsForeign aid before lower taxes Christian Democratic Party refuses to instruct its Oslo councillors how to vote on HafslundStorting rejects cut in incapacity benefitAir travel more expensive if Civil Aviation Authority relocatedUnions’ own employees finally win right to strikeNORAD wants Norwegian students to choose South AfricaToday’s comment from Dagens Næringsliv

"You, Walter, are indeed like a miracle that God has made." These were the words of President Thabo Mbeki, quoting from An African Elegy written by Nigerian poet Ben Okri, paying tribute to Sisulu at his 90th birthday celebrations in May, 2002

Within this disaccord in the global political system lies a deep crisis of the global economy, a explosion of global poverty and underdevelopment, and the looming threat of environmental calamity.

The head of Norway's National Bureau of Crime Investigation (Kripos) is calling for stronger criminal penalties and even new limits on immigration. He claims that's necessary if the country is to gain control over its rising crime rate.