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  French aid worker kidnapped in Afghanistan

  4 November 2008

  French aid worker kidnapped in Afghanistan

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  2008 Corruption perceptions index

  25 September 2008

  2008 CORRUPTION PERCEPTIONS INDEX

  The Transparency International CPI measures the perceived levels of public-sector corruption in a given country and is a composite index, drawing on different expert and business surveys. The 2008 CPI scores 180 countries, the same number as the 2007 CPI, on a scale from zero, highly corrupt to ten, highly clean.
  
  Denmark, New Zealand and Sweden share the highest score at 9.3, followed immediately by Singapore at 9.2. Bringing up the rear is Somalia at 1.0, slightly trailing Iraq and Myanmar at 1.3 and Haiti at 1.4.
  
  While score changes in the Index are not rapid, statistically significant changes are evident in certain countries from the high to the low end of the CPI. Looking at source surveys included in both the 2007 and 2008 Index, significant declines can be seen in the scores of Bulgaria, Burundi, Maldives, Norway and the United Kingdom.
  
  Similarly, statistically significant improvements over the last year can be identified in Albania, Cyprus, Georgia, Mauritius, Nigeria, Oman, Qatar, South Korea, Tonga and Turkey.
  
  Thailand along with Burkina Faso, Brazil, Saudi Arabia and Morocco shared 80^th place, each scoring 3.5. Thailand in 2007 earned a 3.3 rating from Transparency International and was ranked 84^th.
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  Somali piracy

  16 August 2008

  Piracy in Somalia

  Piracy off the Somali coast has been a threat to international shipping since the beginning of Somalia’s civil war in the early 1990s. Since 2005, many international organizations, including the International Maritime Organization and the World Food Programme, have expressed concern over the rise in acts of piracy. Combined Task Force 150, a multinational coalition naval task force, has taken on the role of fighting piracy. In May 2008, Islamist fighters, who are opposed to the Transitional Federal Government, also attacked pirates.
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  Leaders of the Group of Eight industrialised nations

  7 July 2008

  Leaders of the Group of Eight industrialised nations

  TOYAKO - Leaders of the Group of Eight industrialised nations Monday launched their annual summit in Japan with surging oil and food prices and climate change set to dominate the agenda. The leaders of the G8 — Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Italy, Russia and the United States — will be joined this year by those of some 15 other countries including China, India, Brazil, South Korea and Australia.
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  The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Thailand, HE Mr Noppadon Pattama

  7 July 2008

  The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Thailand, HE Mr Noppadon Pattama

  The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Thailand, HE Mr Noppadon Pattama, and the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Australia, the Hon Stephen Smith MP, met in Bangkok on 4 July 2008, during Mr Smith’s first visit to Thailand as Foreign Minister.

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