A U.N. aid worker was sentenced this week to seven months in jail for helping the Islamist fundamentalist organization Hamas, according to news reports. Wahid Abdallah al Bursh pleaded guilty to unintentionally aiding the group while he worked for the U.N. Development Program (UNDP).
A second aid worker has been arrested by Israeli security forces for allegedly helping Hamas.
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The poverty rate in Latin America and the Caribbean fell from 41.7% to 25.3% from 2000 to 2012, says the…
For roughly a quarter of a century, the UN has put out a report on how countries are improving or…
Flickr, epSos.de Gross domestic product (GDP) is the magical term often used to described the economic growth of a country.…