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News Rebuffing Israel, UN Chief Heads to Iran for Non-Aligned Movement Summit Meeting Iran will be chairing the 120-member Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) for the first time Read more |
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News Nobel Prize-Winner Elinor Ostrom Dies at 78 Ostrom's work highlighted the power of "the commons" Read more |
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News 'Broken Earth Day': Connecting Climate Change to Wild Weather In New Mexico, firefighters stand in the remains of the Santa Fe Forest, which was burned last summer during the state’s worst wildfire in history. In Pakistan, a group of women hold dots in front of the makeshift shelter that became their home after the devastating floods in 2010 that displaced... Read more |
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News International Women's Day in Pictures: Protests, Celebrations International Women's Day is being marked across the globe with political protest as well as celebration. What are you doing today for International Women's Day? * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * # # # Read more |
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News Indigenous Peoples in India Fight Back Against Corporate Encroachment LALGARH, India - This small town, barely 150 km away from the bustling eastern metropolis of Kolkata, hit news headlines in December 2008 when adivasis (indigenous people) led by Maoist rebels briefly captured it. By June 2009 security forces had recaptured Lalgarh, though the forested surroundings... Read more |
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News Haitian Cholera Victims Seek Reparations from U.N. UNITED NATIONs - More than 5,000 Haitian cholera victims are seeking compensation, action and an apology from the U.N. and the United Nations Stabilisation Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) for the ongoing epidemic that has killed more than 6,600 Haitians and sickened more than 476,000 since October 2010... Read more |
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News Profit, Not Care: The Ugly Side of Overseas Adoptions Lax regulation and an endless demand by childless couples in the West has created an often exploitative market in babies born in the developing world Read more |
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News Watching Climate Change Through a Farmer's Eyes In the last few decades, farmers in the heavily-forested Darjeeling Hills of the Himalayas in India and Nepal have noticed something strange. Rivers and streams are drying up, crop yields are plummeting, and trees have begun to flower long before spring arrives. The experiences of these villagers... Read more |
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News Haiti's Cholera Outbreak Has Not Peaked: WHO GENEVA -- The cholera outbreak in Haiti that has claimed 3,651 lives has not peaked, the World Health Organisation said Tuesday. "We think that the peak has not been reached," said Fadela Chaib, WHO spokeswoman, of the deadly disease that has also infected 171,304 people. "The peak has not been... Read more |
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News Haiti Cholera Outbreak 'Came from UN Camp' PARIS - The cholera outbreak ravaging Haiti began at a camp for UN peacekeepers from Nepal, according to an expert report submitted to the French foreign ministry, a source close to the matter told AFP on Tuesday. Respected French epidemiologist Professor Renaud Piarroux conducted a study in Haiti... Read more |