Microsoft and UN form technology literacy partnership
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates announced a $1 billion partnership with the United Nations Development Program to create computer centers in developing countries starting in Egypt Mozambique and Morocco. Centers may use non Microsoft software and aim to provide software training and cash support.
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Annan urges focus on poverty amid warnings on war on terror
U N Secretary General Kofi Annan told the World Economic Forum that rich nations worsen global tensions and threaten human rights. He warned terrorism risks inflaming cultural divides and urged rebalancing from security to poverty, hunger and disease while stressing UN duty to protect vulnerable people.
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NATO chief faces critique over Afghanistan mission limits
Former Australian foreign minister Gareth Evans warned Jaap de Hoop Scheffer that NATO’s Afghan push is more about public optics than real change. Evans and Human Rights Watch critique a too-small footprint while NATO cites ongoing reconstruction and expansion talks, with US led forces pursuing Taliban remnants.
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