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News Thursday, March 15, 2012 Enviro Groups Fear "Dangerously Misguided" Plan to Unleash Genetically Modified Mosquitoes The Florida Keys Mosquito Control District is having a town hall meeting tonight about a plan to release genetically modified mosquitoes in order to control the population of Aedes aegypti , the mosquito responsible for the spread of dengue fever. Read more |
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News Friday, March 09, 2012 NAACP Looks to UN in Fight Against Increasing US Voter Suppression The NAACP is sending representatives next week to a session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland to argue that minority community members are facing clear voter suppression efforts in the United States, NAACP President Ben Jealous said during a press call on Thursday. Read more |
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News Tuesday, February 21, 2012 With Greece's Final Austerity Deal Reached, the 'Gruesome Bleeding Process' Continues This morning Greece and its creditors finalized a $170bn bailout package for the country with further austerity measures already bringing calls for strikes. While Greek Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos has said the bailout means a "nightmare scenario" has been averted, for many Greeks the further deep cuts mean the nightmare is unfolding. Read more |
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News Monday, February 20, 2012 Australian Cancer Survivor Fights to Stop Gene Ownership In Australia today, a cancer survivor and a consumer organization have taken four biotech companies to court over a patent related to a human gene linked to breast and ovarian cancers. On Monday, an Australian Federal Court began hearing the landmark case brought by the Brisbane woman, Yvonne D'Arcy, and Cancer Voices Australia against the US-corporation Myriad Genetics Inc , owner of the patent. * * * Read more |
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News Tuesday, January 24, 2012 Occupy Davos: Attendees Confront a New Wave of Anger This years’ World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, marks the start of the perennial capitalist meet-and-greet summit season. The economic equivalent of the Oscars, the WEF is a time for the 0.1% to celebrate the achievements and successes of free-markets, and to discuss how to keep the crumbling ship from running ashore; it’s also a time to get in a few good runs on the slopes, deep tissue massages and a soothing hot tub session on the 99%’s dime. Read more |
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News Wednesday, January 11, 2012 Growth of Global Inequality Sowing 'Seeds of Dystopia': Report The World Economic Forum released its global assessment on Wednesday, and it paints a stark future if world institutions - including governments, private industry, academic institutions, and civil society organizations - don't make some radically practical changes. From the report : Read more |
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News Friday, January 06, 2012 A Pakistani Spring? Imran Khan's 'Tsunami' Brings Hope Nuclear-armed Pakistan has been through turmoil for many years with military coups, rampant corruption and US drone attacks. Cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan , the leader of Pakistan's Movement for Justice party, is emerging as a leading contender to lead Pakistan into the future. Read more |
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News Wednesday, March 23, 2011 Explosion at Bus Stop in Central Jerusalem; 25 Reported Wounded An bomb tied to a telephone pole exploded Wednesday at a crowded bus stop outside the International Convention Center in Jerusalem, just opposite the central station. At least 25 people were wounded in the incident, four of them seriously. All of the casualties have been evacuated to the Hadassah Hospital in Ein Karem. The Magen David Adom emergency services said that there were no fatalities. The blast could be heard throughout Jerusalem and blew out the windows of two crowded buses, No. 74 and No. 14. Read more |
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News Friday, September 24, 2010 US Executes Grandmother Despite Protests JARRATT, Virginia - A US grandmother has been put to death by lethal injection in Virgina, the first woman executed in the state for nearly a century, prompting outrage from anti-death penalty campaigners. Teresa Lewis, 41, convicted of masterminding the murders of her husband and step-son, was pronounced dead at 9:13 pm Thursday (0113 GMT Friday) at Greensville prison, prison official Larry Traylor said. Death penalty abolitionists had championed Lewis's case, insisting she had diminished mental faculties and that smarter accomplices had taken advantage of her. Read more |
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News Monday, April 27, 2009 Iraq PM: Deadly US Raid 'Breach' of Security Pact BAGHDAD - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said a US raid on Sunday in which a policeman and a woman were shot dead was a "breach" of a landmark security pact with Washington. "The prime minister condemns the killings which are in breach of the (US-Iraqi) security pact," Maliki said in a statement carried by Iraqi state TV. The premier "wants those responsible to be put on trial," it added. Read more |