"Cuba's urban farming program has been a stunning, and surprising, success. The farms, many of them on tiny plots now supply much of Cuba's produce while also providing 350,000 jobs nationwide with relatively high pay."
Cuba has promised the Roman Catholic Church it will free 52 political prisoners, slashing the number held by nearly a third in what would be the communist-led island's largest release of dissidents since Pope John Paul II visited in 1998.
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Chicago has unveiled its new Bike 2015 Plan, designed to achieve the mayor's goal to make the Windy City the most bicycle-friendly city in the United States. Work has already begun on 75 of the plan’s 150 strategies, including Constructing 10 miles of new bikeways in 2006, to help reach the plan’s goal of a 500-mile bikeway network by 2015.
An inner city public high school consisting of poor students -- mostly immigrants -- has become a remarkable example of what a school can do. One hundred percent of the students graduate, and almost all go to some of the nation's top colleges.
Chicago Police Supt. Jody Weis on Friday hailed an 11 percent drop in homicides and a 9 percent dip in all crimes during the first seven months of 2009 as a "very encouraging" sign that his department's strategies are working.
Chicago's first lady, Maggie Daley, created an after school program two decades ago that serves 25,000 kids, enrolling them in programs of art, dance, sports, science and video to keep them out of trouble and learning.
The presidents of Nigeria and Cameroon signed an agreement settling a decades-old, sometimes violent, border dispute over the oil-rich Bakassi Peninsula following intensive mediation over the weekend by the United Nations Secretary-General.
Microsoft has agreed to donate more than $300,000 to open computer centers where former paramilitary fighters will receive free training for civilian jobs.
Colombia and that country's second largest rebel group are succeeding in cease fire talks urged on by famous novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez .
Nearly 14,000 firearms will be melted down today in Colombia in a ceremonial action highlighting the danger of illegal arms proliferation and to mark International Gun Destruction Day. The molten metal will be used to make school chairs and build a monument in memory of the victims of violence and kidnapping in Colombia,
Colombia's citizens have shed their fear and have more confidence in the State, thanks to the consolidation of democracy and security following years of fear imposed by terrorists, the South American nation's President Álvaro Uribe Vélez said at the UN General Assembly. Over two-thirds of the 60,000 terrorists who had "ravaged the country at the start of the new administration" have turned their back on criminal activity and are taking part in a reintegration program.
11 white-furred rats are in the final stages of a training program to find landmines that kill or injure hundreds of people each year in conflict-wracked Colombia.
In an unprecedented concession, Colombian rebels have pledged to end their practice of kidnapping for ransom and release the hostages they hold, hoping to re-open the doors to dialogue as the civil conflict enters its 48th year.
The government of Japan has donated US$3 million to the United Nations World Food Programme to purchase food for 44,000 of the worst affected families in Afghanistan, WFP said on Monday in the capital Kabul.
A 2,000-year-old gold treasure trove of Afghanistan's heritage was guarded for decades by a mysterious group of Afghans who patiently kept the secret of its underground whereabouts, at great personal risk during the time of upheaval and war with Russia and the Taliban.
To improve living conditions, attract business and reduce the constant threat of disease, Kabul's Old City has been cleared of rubbish and mud — so much that street levels dropped by nine feet uncovering building foundations submerged for over 60 years. Thanks to the Turquoise Mountain Foundation's clean-up and restoration of the original ground level, […]
Taliban leaders are holding Saudi-brokered talks with the Afghan government to end the country's conflict -- and are severing their ties with al Qaeda, sources close to the historic discussions have told CNN.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has lauded Iran's long record of generosity in hosting one million displaced Afghans since 1998 calling their settlement camps maybe the best in the world.
Tens of thousands of schoolchildren in Kabul are set to benefit from a $24 million donation from Japan, under an agreement signed today with the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) to construct around 1,000 classrooms. And, the UN Mine Action Program for Afghanistan announced that the city's electricity supply has improved as a result of its mine-clearing operation in the north of the country.
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