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GENEVA: The UN Human Rights Council on Thursday called on the international community to take all necessary measures to ensure the realization of food rights, said to be the basic human right. The council adopted a resolution on the global food crisis, urging all member states to make their best efforts to meet the vital food needs of their own population, especially of vulnerable groups and households, calling for increased local farming and efforts to reduce child and maternal malnutrition.
-- Xinhua
QUITO: Speculation and the weak US dollar, rather than insufficient output, are responsible for the soaring oil prices, Orgaanization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) Secretary-General Abdullah al-Badri said Thursday. Badri indicated that OPEC could do nothing to curb the hike in oil prices, though many countries, especially in the developing world, are being seriously impacted. When we see there is a shortage of supply, we will act," he said. But even if we increase output tomorrow, the prices will not come down."
-- Xinhua
WASHINGTON: North Korea is expected to begin dismantling its nuclear weapons arsenal immediately after submitting a long awaited declaration of its atomic program possibly as early as next week, officials said Thursday. Pyongyang is unlikely to wait for the declaration to be fully verified before disbanding its nuclear facilities, in a bid to hasten denuclearization under a six-nation deal.
-- AFP
LONDON: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown suffered another severe blow to his authority Friday as his Labour Party saw the Conservatives seize a seat it has held for two decades in a by-election. Three weeks after trouncing Labour in local elections, the Tories recorded their first by-election victory since 1982 to win control of the Crewe and Nantwich constituency in northwest England. The centre-right party's candidate Edward Timpson received 19 percent more votes than Labour's Tamsin
Dunwoody.
-- AFP
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