51.  EU officials acknowledge the importance of private capital but insist that deeply impoverished states -- particularly in Africa -- are unlikely magnets for foreign investors.

52.  European Union foreign ministers on Saturday effectively ruled out military intervention in Albania, at least while the current anarchy in the impoverished Balkan state continues.

53.  The recent trickle of refugees is threatening to become a flood of North Koreans desperate to flee their impoverished totalitarian state.

54.  The Zapatista rebels rose up against the government to demand political reform in Meixco and better living conditions in the impoverished southern state of Chiapas.

55.  They added that the system collapse had crippled industry, trains and other essential services in the impoverished eastern state.

56.  When Pope Jean Paul II visited Mexico in August last year, Ruiz sent him a letter criticizing the government and describing the impoverished state of the Indians.

57.  Meanwhile, civil servants in this impoverished southern African state are riled by the proposed pay rises, which favour only the top government workers.

58.  Malawi hit back at Denmark on Wednesday for withdrawing aid to the impoverished southern African state last week and for suggesting that President Bakili Muluzi was authoritarian.

59.  Meta resigned unexpectedly on Tuesday after a bitter clash with PS president Fatos Nano that split the ruling party, plunging the impoverished Balkan state into fresh instability.

60.  Muluzi, in his first tough words against the Bank, said countries like Zambia, Zimbabwe and Namibia had larger cabinets than his impoverished state.