US President Barack Obama has passed over better-known candidates and nominated global health expert and Dartmouth College President Jim Yong Kim, a Korean-born physician, to lead the World Bank.It was a surprise pick aimed in part at fending off challen
Drought has left 13 million people on the brink of a full-scale humanitarian crisis in West Africa, a leading British charity has said.Oxfam said tens of thousands of people in the Sahel region of west and central Africa could die in the coming months if
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