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GREENING THE GHETTO
2009-01-12
A few months ago, Van Jones, the founder and president of a group called Green for All, went to visit New Bedford, Massachusetts. His first stop of the day was the public library, where someone had assembled an audience of about thirty high-school dropouts. They leaned back in their chairs, hands in the pockets of their oversized sweatshirts. A few appeared to be stoned.
Photographers criminalised as police 'abuse' anti-terror laws
2009-01-06
Reuben Powell is an unlikely terrorist. A white, middle-aged, middle-class artist, he has been photographing and drawing life around the capital's Elephant & Castle for 25 years. With a studio near the 1960s shopping centre at the heart of this area in south London, he is a familiar figure and is regularly seen snapping and sketching the people and buildings around his home - currently the site of Europe's largest regeneration project. But to the police officers who arrested him last week his photographing of the old HMSO print works close to the local police station posed an unacceptable security risk.
Europe faces energy crisis as Vladimir Putin cuts Russian gas supply
2009-01-05
As temperatures dropped below zero across much of Europe, the Russian prime minister instructed the head of Gazprom: "Cut it - starting today" The cut was ordered to punish neighbouring Ukraine, which Russia accuses of topping up its own gas supply by siphoning off energy meant for European consumers and sent through its pipelines.
Darwin missed 'earliest' Galapagos species
2009-01-05
It is one of the most studied parts of the world, and played a major part in shaping Darwin's thinking about the origin of species - yet the Galapagos Islands continue to give more to our understanding of biology
Civilian casualties escalate in Gaza
2009-01-05
Wounded Palestinians pour into overrun hospitals as Israel continues to pound the Gaza Strip in the 10th day of its offensive
Why mountains are bad for the ozone layer
2009-01-04
"MOUNTAIN waves" in the atmosphere above Antarctica create rare clouds that are helping destroy the ozone layer.
The Grinning Skull: The Homicides You Didn't Hear About in Hurricane Katrina
2008-12-22
A.C. Thompson, a reporter for The Nation and ProPublica, interviews the gunmen responsible for a slew of post-Katrina vigilante shootings.
Ancient skills 'could reverse global warming'
2008-12-07
Ancient techniques pioneered by pre-Columbian Amazonian Indians are about to be pressed into service in Britain and Central America in the most serious commercial attempt yet to reverse global warming.
Trials are to be started in Sussex and Belize early in the new year, backed with venture capital from Silicon Valley, on techniques to take carbon from the atmosphere and bury it in the soil, where it should act as a powerful fertiliser.
Tel Aviv police seize boat planning to deliver aid to Gaza
2008-12-07
The Israeli Arab Islamist Movement organized what was to have been the first boat journey from Israel to the Gaza Strip with humanitarian supplies.
But police in the port of Jaffa instructed the boat's owner not to set off for Gaza and ordered him to move the vessel to the nearby Tel Aviv marina, where it was put under watch.
Homosexuality needs to be curbed as it spreads HIV/AIDS
2008-12-07
Justifying criminalisation of homosexuality in the country, the Centre has pleaded before the Delhi High that it is one of the main reasons for spread of HIV/AIDS and needs to be curbed.
In a written submission filed by Additional Solicitor General P P Malhotra, the Centre said that legalising Men having sex with Men (MSM), as pleaded by gay rights activists, would lead to spread of the dreaded disease and placed reports of various countries to substantiate its stand.
Mugabe must be toppled now - Archbishop of York
2008-12-07
In an extraordinary and passionate outburst, the Archbishop of York is calling for President Robert Mugabe to be toppled from power and face trial for crimes against humanity,
Israeli security forces waiting for Hebron colonists to exact 'price tag'
2008-12-06
Security forces braced on Friday for more violence after Israeli hard-liners again went on a rampage against Palestinians in retaliation for the eviction of settlers from an illegally occupied Hebron house. The entire southern Occupied West Bank was declared a closed military zone to prevent Israelis from converging again on the flashpoint city where a mob of Jewish settlers on Thursday shot and wounded three Palestinians, hurled rocks at others and torched homes, fields and cars.
Low cost solutions must to overcome terrorism, poverty and climate change
2008-12-05
Union Minister of Science, Technology and Earth Sciences Kapil Sibal has emphasized the need for low cost technological solutions to overcome the challenges of terrorism, poverty and climate change.
Delivering the inaugural address at the 14th Technology Summit and Technology Platform in New Delhi today he called upon the scientists and technologists to do science globally and implement technology locally.
India's sex trade exposed
2008-11-29
On the streets of Kamathipura young women stand ready and available, looking to lure their next customer. They pose, they smile, some wave. They look terribly young, their faces heavy with make-up. Many are dressed in Western clothes, others in traditional saris. In this red light district of Mumbai, they stand on the kerbside in front of grimy shacks containing the beds on which they do their work. There is the hustle and chaos of the traffic, the clogged roads, the constant noise. And there is terrible sadness too.
Commercial ship travels through Northwest Passage for first time
2008-11-28
CBC News is reporting that a commercial ship has travelled for the first time through the Northwest Passage this fall to deliver supplies to communities in western Nunavut.
Faroe islanders told to stop eating 'toxic' whales
2008-11-28
Chief medical officers of the Faroe Islands have recommended that pilot whales no longer be considered fit for human consumption, because they are toxic - as revealed by research on the Faroes themselves.
Colombia leads rallies demanding hostages' release
2008-11-28
Thousands of people in Colombia, France and Spain turned out Friday to urge Colombian rebel group FARC to free hundreds of hostages, five months after they released Ingrid Betancourt, who fears other captives are being forgotten
Yemen protesters clash with police
2008-11-27
Seven people, including two policemen, have been injured in clashes between security forces and opposition activists in Yemen's capital Sanaa, witnesses say. The clashes took place on Thursday as protesters gathered to call for a boycott of parliamentary elections due to take place next year
Nobody supports the Taliban, but people hate the government
2008-11-27
The collapse of Afghanistan is closer than the world believes. Kandahar is in Taliban hands - all but a square mile at the centre of the city - and the first Taliban checkpoints are scarcely 15 miles from Kabul. Hamid Karzai's deeply corrupted government is almost as powerless as the Iraqi cabinet in Baghdad's "Green Zone"; lorry drivers in the country now carry business permits issued by the Taliban which operate their own courts in remote areas of the country.
Obama's First Test
2008-11-27
The series of terror attacks in Mumbai comes at a sensitive time for the US. President Bush is no longer in a position to lead, and President-elect Barack Obama has not yet been given the reins. Still, the attacks represent Obama's first foreign policy test.
The mood was a festive one on Wednesday in Washington D.C. Just like every year before Thanksgiving, US President George W. Bush "pardoned a turkey -- this year's version was named Pumpkin. President-elect Barack Obama and his wife Michelle, for their part, joined TV legend Barbara Walters for a chat. The atmosphere was relaxed -- they talked, for example, about how the Obama daughters would be in charge of making their own beds when they moved into the White House in January.
But then the images from the terror attacks in Mumbai began flickering across the television screen. And suddenly, the pre-holiday calm in Washington and Chicago, where Obama's transition team is headquartered, came to an abrupt end.
Election setback for Chavez's leftist revolution
2008-11-25
The political map of Venezuela has been redrawn, after results from state and local elections showed the opposition to Hugo Chavez's leftist "revolution" was sweeping back to power in the capital, Caracas, and its three most populous states.
Russian warships enter Venezuela
2008-11-25
Russian warships have sailed into a Venezuelan port in the first deployment of its kind in the Caribbean since the end of the Cold War. The vessels were greeted by a 21-gun military salute on Tuesday at the start of a week of joint manoeuvres as Moscow and Caracas seek to strengthen their political and trade ties.
Last great US fishery in danger of collapse
2008-11-25
Heard of the walleye pollack? If you're partial to a McDonald's Filet-o-Fish burger, you have probably eaten it.
It is one of the main reasons white fish is still available to eat, despite the collapse of many cod fisheries. But now walleye pollack, which accounts for a third of the total US fish catch, is itself in danger.
Synthetic Viruses Could Explain Animal-to-Human Jumps
2008-11-24
In a technical tour de force with potentially profound implications for the study of emerging diseases, researchers have built the largest-ever self-replicating organism from scratch.
The organism is a virus based on genome sequences taken from a bat-borne version of SARS, a lethal respiratory disease that jumped from animals to humans in 2002. The synthetic virus could help explain how SARS evolved, and the same approach could be used to investigate other species-hopping killers.
Kabul 30 years ago, and Kabul today. Have we learned nothing?
2008-11-22
I sit on the rooftop of the old Central Hotel - pharaonic-decorated elevator, unspeakable apple juice, sublime green tea, and armed Tajik guards at the front door - and look out across the smoky red of the Kabul evening. The Bala Hissar fort glows in the dusk, massive portals, the great keep to which the British army should have moved its men in 1841. Instead, they felt the king should live there and humbly built a cantonment on the undefended plain, thus leading to a "signal catastrophe".
Conservationists plan 'doomsday vault' for frog sperm
2008-11-21
The freezer could be the future for frogs and other amphibians. Efforts announced today are currently underway around the world to boost amphibian numbers with cryopreservation and assisted reproduction.
Mining for minerals fuels Congo conflict
2008-11-01
The conflict in eastern Congo is being fueled and funded by a tussle for mineral resources that end up in cell phones, laptops and other electronics - deepening the stakes in a war that sprung out of festering hatreds from the Rwandan genocide.
Climate change at the poles IS man-made
2008-10-31
Changes to the climate due to human activity can now be detected on every continent, following a study showing that temperature rises in the Antarctic as well as the Arctic are the result of man-made emissions of greenhouse gases.
Robert Fisk: Scandal of six held in Guantanamo even after Bush plot claim is dropped
2008-10-31
In the dying days of the Bush administration, yet another presidential claim in the "war on terror" has been proved false by the withdrawal of the main charge against six Algerians held without trial for nearly seven years at Guantanamo prison camp.
Russia replaces Ingushetia leader
2008-10-31
Russia has appointed Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, a paratroop commander, as the new leader of Ingushetia. Dmitry Medvedev, Russia's president, dismissed Murat Zyazikov as president of the region, which is a federal subject of Russia, in an attempt to quell unrest there. The mainly Muslim region has been suffering from almost daily gunfights, ambushes and explosions, alarming the Kremlin which is anxious to avoid a repeat of the separatist conflict which hit neighbouring Chechnya.
Khamenei outlines history behind enmity for Washington
2008-10-30
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday that "hatred" of Washington in the Islamic Republic was "deep-seated" because of past US agression against his country. "This conflict goes far beyond having differences over a few political issues," Khamenei told students in a speech, quoted by state television ahead of the 29th anniversary of the 1979 hostage-taking at the US Embassy.
Elections: The involution of Islamic parties?
2008-10-30
Jakarta - Over the past few years, surveys on support for Islamic parties have been consistently disheartening. Support for such parties has ranged between 0.1 and 7 percent, with the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) at the top and PPNUI at the bottom.
Oz parliament may scrap Lord's prayer
2008-10-29
The speaker of Australia's parliament has called for a public debate about whether the country's lawmakers should end the practice of starting each session with the Lord's Prayer.
Lieberman: Mubarak can 'go to hell'; Egypt responds: Lieberman is a racist
2008-10-29
President Shimon Peres issued an official apology to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on Wednesday, after right-wing MK Avigdor Lieberman said earlier that the Egyptian president could "go to hell."
Iraq seeks to ban U.S. attacks on neighbors
2008-10-29
Iraq wants a security agreement with the United States to include a clear ban on U.S. troops using Iraqi territory to attack the country's neighbors, the government spokesman said Wednesday, three days after a U.S. raid on Syria.
Mixed messages leave eastern Europe on edge
2008-10-28
Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the US joint chiefs of staff, spent a couple of days last week reassuring the Baltic republics - Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania - that fellow Nato members would stand with them, shoulder to shoulder, should they face Georgia-style aggression from close neighbour Russia. His pledge, undoubtedly sincere, was not entirely convincing.
Johann Hari: The Republicans' dirty secret... torture
2008-10-28
So what will be left of the Republican Party after next week's US election? The answer lies in the sands of Florida, where the sunshine-state Republicans have nominated an unrepentant torturer as their candidate for Congress. They view his readiness to torture an innocent Iraqi not as a source of shame, but as his prime qualification for office. This is American conservatism in the dying days of Bush – and it points out the direction that Sarah Palin would like to take it in 2012.
Abused women can fight back - Al-Azhar sheikh
2008-10-28
Sunni Islam's highest authority has approved a woman's right to fight back if her husband uses violence against her, Egypt's Al-Masry al-Youm newspaper reported on Monday.
Water row with India a threat to CBMs: Zardari
2008-10-28
The blockade of Chenab River's water by India could dent the ongoing confidence-building measures (CBMs), Geo News reported President Asif Ali Zardari as saying on Monday.
Europe's secret plan to boost GM crop production
2008-10-26
Gordon Brown and other European leaders are secretly preparing an unprecedented campaign to spread GM crops and foods in Britain and throughout the continent, confidential documents obtained by The Independent on Sunday reveal. The documents - minutes of a series of private meetings of representatives of 27 governments = disclose plans to "speed up" the introduction of the modified crops and foods and to "deal with" public resistance to them.
'US helicopter raid' inside Syria
2008-10-26
At least eight people have been killed in a US helicopter raid in eastern Syria, close to the country's border with Iraq, a Syrian official has said. Al-Dunia, a private television channel, said that American helicopters raided the village of Sukariya, which lies 550km northeast of Damascus.
Ranking methods to save the world
2008-10-26
When it comes to repairing damage done to the Earth's climate there's no shortage of ideas, ranging from schemes to put "sunshades" in orbit to burying the offending carbon dioxide underground. But ideas won't be enough, so there is an urgent need to rank those proposals to work out which should undergo rigorous testing, argues Philip Boyd of the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research in Dunedin, New Zealand.
Spain honours volunteers as civil war row grows
2008-10-26
Barcelona has paid homage to the last few survivors of the International Brigades volunteers who fought to defend Spain against the fascist-backed General Francisco Franco during the 1936-39 civil war.
Thousands stuck in camps of no return
2008-10-26
Bewildered, angry and thrown into squalor, the refugees created suddenly by Pakistan's frontline role in the 'war on terror' know they could be stranded in camps for years to come. Up to 300,000 people have had to flee fighting in Bajaur, an extremely poor part of Pakistan's tribal border area with Afghanistan. Refugees in their own country, they live in vast government camps or beg shelter from friends and family. In an ominous sign for the government, their rage is directed not at the Pakistani Taliban, who took over their area, but the army, whose onslaught with jets and helicopters forced them to abandon their homes and livelihoods.
Involve the Arabs
2008-10-26
Of the 120 Knesset members, 10 belong to Arab factions - Balad, Hadash, and United Arab List-Ta'al. When coalitions are formed, these groups are usually left outside the camp, and outside the political discourse. Prime ministerial candidates from the right loathe these factions, while those from the left fear being overly associated with them. The result is identical: The Arab factions, whose representatives were democratically elected by wide swaths of the population, are shunned and turn into nearly illegitimate entities.
Sarkozy Calls for Partial Nationalization of Key Industries
2008-10-21
In a speech before the European Parliament on Tuesday, French President Nicolas Sarkozy suggested that European countries establish their own sovereign wealth funds to take ownership stakes in key industries. He went on to suggest that European states should coordinate their industrial policies with each other.
Tehran mayor welcomes Obama's call for talks
2008-10-18
The mayor of Tehran, a possible contender for the Iranian presidency, said on Friday his country would welcome talks with the United States as supported by White House contender Barack Obama. Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, a harsh critic of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, expressed hope that Obama would make good on calls to hold dialogue with Iran should the Democrat win the November 4 election.
Crunch resurrects Marx
2008-10-17
Two decades after the Berlin Wall fell, communism's founding father Karl Marx is back in vogue in eastern Germany, thanks to the global financial crisis. His 1867 critical analysis of capitalism, Das Kapital, has risen from the publishing graveyard to become an improbable best-seller for the academic publisher, Karl-Dietz-Verlag.
Arctic air temperatures hit record highs
2008-10-17
Autumn air temperatures have climbed to record levels in the Arctic due to major losses of sea ice as the region suffers more effects from a warming trend dating back decades, according to a new report.
Spanish Judge Orders 19 Mass Graves Exhumed
2008-10-17
Judge Baltasar Garzon opened the first formal probe into murder and repression during Spain's fascist era on Thursday by filing a 68-page writ ordering the immediate exhumation of 19 mass graves -- including one thought to contain the remains of poet Federico Garcia Lorca.
The West Is at a Loss in Afghanistan
2008-10-17
It is one of the last mild summer evenings in Kabul. A group of Western diplomats and military officials is meeting for a private dinner in one of the embassies in Wazir Akbar Khan, an upscale residential neighborhood. Almost all of the 12 envoys and generals represent countries that have troops stationed in southern Afghanistan and the mood is somber. "Nothing is moving forward anymore, and yet we are no longer able to extricate ourselves," one of the ambassadors says over dessert, a light apple pastry. He gives voice to that which many here are already thinking: "We are trapped."
Regional bloc to meet Monday on Zimbabwe
2008-10-17
Southern African officials will meet on Monday to try to help Zimbabwe's rival parties end a deadlock on forming a new government, opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai said on Friday.
Artists battle censorship in Islamist-ruled Nigerian state
2008-10-17
"I don't sell cocaine," says the video vendor in Kano's Rimi market when I ask for Adam Zango's music video CD Bahaushiya. He is not referring to the white powder, but to a new illegal substance - Hausa films that have not passed through the Kano State Censors Board.
Beirut museum to recall horrors of civil war
2008-10-17
The sandbags, sniper slits and pockmarked facade of a Beirut house stand as a chilling reminder of Lebanon's 1975-1990 civil war. Now, over 15 years after the end of the fighting, the building is poised to become a museum aimed at ensuring no-one ever forgets the horrors of those dark days.
US slips into recession: Federal Reserve
2008-10-15
The United States has slipped into recession, the head of the San Francisco branch of the Federal Reserve, the nation's central bank, has said. "The recent flow of economic data suggests that the economy was weaker than expected in the third quarter, probably showing essentially no growth at all," said Janet Yellen Tuesday in an address in Palo Alto, California.
Iranian strike halts sales tax
2008-10-14
Widespread strikes by traders in Iran have prompted the government to suspend a controversial sales tax. A value-added tax (VAT) on all goods officially came into force in September, but Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the president, ordered a two-month freeze on the tax after the protests brought market trade to a virtual standstill.
Rwanda troops enter DR Congo
2008-10-09
The Democratic Republic of Congo has accused its neighbour Rwanda of sending troops across the border in support of a Congolese rebel leader.
'Whoever Has the Bomb Has Power'
2008-09-25
One of the Bush Administration's few foreign policy successes looks like it's going down the tubes as North Korea prepares to restart its nuclear program. German commentators wonder if this is simply a new North Korean negotiating strategy or the sign of a power struggle in Pyongyang.
Skin-whitening adverts ignite race row in India
2008-07-10
The actors are beautiful, the sets are stylish and the message could not be clearer - the woman with the paler skin gets the man. In recent weeks, Indians have been treated to an eye-catching television advert "mini-series" featuring three of Bollywood's hottest talents in a moody love-triangle. All in the name of skin-whitening cream.
How many people have to die before Lebanon's politicians change their ways?
2008-06-24
The deadly clashes that continue to plague Tripoli are underlining the very real and very pressing need for Lebanon's squabbling political parties to put the country's interests above their own. The Lebanese people have spent far too long in the shadow of instability, and the military and security forces entrusted with their protection are at least partially hamstrung by the vacuum opened up by the protracted process of creating a new unity cabinet. The leaderships of both the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) and the Internal Security Forces (ISF) are understandably hesitant to grasp the proverbial nettle and impose their will in the Northern port city because they still don't know which civilian ministers will be calling the shots in the aftermath of what could be a messy operation.
NYT's Gail Collins and the "2nd Tier" Presidential Candidates
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Gail Collins, the columnist for the New York Times, has a problem. While regularly writing in a satirical or sometimes trivial way about the foibles of the two major Parties' front-running presidential candidates, she can scarcely hide her disdain for the small starters, the underdogs.
I Am Not a Health Reform
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IN 1971, President Nixon sought to forestall single-payer national health insurance by proposing an alternative. He wanted to combine a mandate, which would require that employers cover their workers, with a Medicaid-like program for poor families, which all Americans would be able to join by paying sliding-scale premiums based on their income.
Green Party support at record levels, voter poll finds
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OTTAWA -- Green is now the colour of protest. Dissatisfied with the traditional menu of political parties, Canadians are expressing support for the Green Party at double-digit levels.
Bolshie Britain: a new Winter of Discontent
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He will bristle at any comparison with the last Labour prime minister to lose a general election, but in coming weeks Gordon Brown will struggle to escape memories of the troubles that did for Jim Callaghan.
E-mails show how Dems tied staffers' bonuses to campaign work
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E-mail messages exchanged by top aides in the Democratic caucus starting in 2004 make clear that taxpayer-funded bonuses were given to legislative employees for their work on election campaigns.
The Disgraceful Treatment of Our Veterans
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As you do your holiday shopping this year and think about a big turkey dinner and piles of gifts and the good life that most Americans enjoy, please spare a thought for those who made it all possible: Those who serve in our military and the veterans who've worn the uniform.
Ex-Congresswoman Seeks Presidency
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ATLANTA (AP) - Former Democratic Rep. Cynthia McKinney, who was ousted from office last year after a headline-grabbing scuffle with a Capitol Hill police officer, has decided to seek the presidency - as a Green Party candidate.
Spy planes to recharge by clinging to power lines
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The next time you see something flapping in the breeze on an overhead power line, squint a little harder. It may not be a plastic bag or the remnants of a party balloon, but a tiny spy plane stealing power from the line to recharge its batteries.
Freedom! Lakota Sioux Indians Declare Sovereign Nation Status
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Washington D.C. - Lakota Sioux Indian representatives declared sovereign nation status today in Washington D.C. following Monday's withdrawal from all previously signed treaties with the United States Government. The withdrawal, hand delivered to Daniel Turner, Deputy Director of Public Liaison at the State Department, immediately and irrevocably ends all agreements between the Lakota Sioux Nation of Indians and the United States Government outlined in the 1851 and 1868 Treaties at Fort Laramie Wyoming.
Camel 'plague' puzzles scientists
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An unprecedented number of camels across North Africa and the Middle East died last year, researchers have discovered. The several thousand deaths have baffled scientists who are probing toxins, antibiotic pollution, viruses and even climate change as possible causes.
Iraq set to slash food rations
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Iraq is set to halve essential items covered by rations and subsidies because of insufficient funds and spiralling inflation, in a further threat to an already deteriorating ration system.
Report: Hoover had plan for mass arrests
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WASHINGTON - Former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover had a plan to suspend the rules against illegal detention and arrest up to 12,000 Americans he suspected of being disloyal, according to a newly declassified document.
Mike Gravel Announces Third Party Bid; Why Ron Paul Will be Next
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Bless his heart. Mike Gravel, who is currently running for President as a Democrat, has already declared that he will run as a third party, and he hasn’t even lost the Democratic nomination yet!
McKinney takes her longest shot
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It's a snowy day, and Cynthia McKinney is coming in from the cold to speak to supporters far from her old Georgia congressional district. About 30 people are gathered to greet her in a state Capitol conference room.
Congolese women who have suffered so much reap the rewards of conservation
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Anyone who has seen African women working in the countryside knows they will sing at the drop of a hat, on any subject that seems appropriate, and this group hoeing a field in the Democratic Republic of Congo are singing like champions, even if they've chosen a theme not often found in the British music charts: agricultural development.
Dining out on New York's rubbish
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Known as "Freegans", some people in the US are trying to live off what the argue are the tons of food thrown out by Americans each day.
Green Party Stepping Up Member, Candidate Recruitment
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After years of involvement with the Hancock County Democratic Party, Nancy Allen found herself at the 1988 Democratic National Convention in Atlanta as a Maine delegate eager to advance the presidential candidacy of the Rev. Jesse Jackson.
Midnight Oil's leader finding challenges in politics
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The music of Peter Garrett has always been politically charged. Now the towering, baldheaded former singer of Midnight Oil is charged with practicing politics -- as Australia's new environment minister.
Highway 443: Israel's Forbidden Road
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t's just after dusk on Route 443, where the heavy northbound traffic from Jerusalem decelerates as it approaches the Maccabim checkpoint. The Israeli commuters, impatient to get home to Tel Aviv or the dormitory town of Modiin, have no idea that in the darkness to the left of the four-lane highway, everyday scenes are unfolding that tell their own story about this land and the conflict that has scarred it for 40 years.
Google tool could search out hospital superbugs
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Transmission of hospital acquired infections like the "superbug" MRSA could be cut using the method that Google uses to rank search results, say UK researchers.
Crunching data from wards using Google's PageRank algorithm could help focus preventative measures more accurately by identifying key routes of infection and transmission, they say.
LBO debt logjam threatens further write-downs for banks
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Leveraged loan problems are threatening Wall Street banks with a fresh round of write-downs from a $205 billion backlog of buyout debt.
Pachauri supports India's nuclear power quest
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Supporting India's quest for nuclear power, United Nations climate panel's chief R K Pachauri, has said that country should pursue it to contain emission and meet energy needs.
Why I Believe Bush Must Go
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As we enter the eighth year of the Bush-Cheney administration, I have belatedly and painfully concluded that the only honorable course for me is to urge the impeachment of the president and the vice president. After the 1972 presidential election, I stood clear of calls to impeach President Richard M. Nixon for his misconduct during the campaign. I thought that my joining the impeachment effort would be seen as an expression of personal vengeance toward the president who had defeated me. Today I have made a different choice.
Greens connect ecology with democracy
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At their annual national gathering of the U.S. Green Party last summer in Reading, Pa., party leader John Rensenbrink gave a speech in which he outlined how the Greens were positioning themselves for the 2008 election and beyond. "We are going to vie for real political power in the United States in order to achieve important goals for our neighborhoods, the country and the planet. We are no longer entering the political arena just to force the 'real' candidates to discuss substantive issues. We are not a club, not a nongovernmental organization but a real political party that will contest for power in these United States."
Pentagon, Big Pharma: Drug Troops to Numb Them to Horrors of War
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In June, the Department of Defense Task Force on Mental Health acknowledged "daunting and growing" psychological problems among our troops: Nearly 40 percent of soldiers, a third of Marines and half of National Guard members are presenting with serious mental health issues. They also reported "fundamental weaknesses" in the U.S. military's approach to psychological health. That report was followed in August by the Army Suicide Event Report (ASER), which reported that 2006 saw the highest rate of military suicides in 26 years. And last month, CBS News reported that, based on its own extensive research, over 6,250 American veterans took their own lives in 2005 alone -- that works out to a little more than 17 suicides every day.
Caltrans lets Minutemen 'adopt' road at checkpoint
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The state transportation department's decision to allow a controversial anti-illegal-immigration group to adopt a stretch of Interstate 5 in San Diego County infuriates some Latino groups and anti-bigotry activists.
Legal battles threaten nuclear power programme
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The return of nuclear power is not going to be smooth. Governments in the UK and US are bracing themselves for legal battles that could hamper their plans to generate more electricity from nuclear reactors.
Mexican teenager hurt in incident at U.S. border
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A teenager was injured when U.S. border patrol agents fired tear gas into Mexico over the weekend, despite a Mexican government complaint that U.S. agents were using excessive force.
Israeli pianist Daniel Barenboim takes Palestinian citizenship
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Daniel Barenboim, the world renowned Israeli pianist and conductor, has taken Palestinian citizenship and said he believed his rare new status could serve a model for peace between the two peoples.
ACLU sues over voter lists from primary
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The ACLU of Michigan filed a federal lawsuit in Detroit today on behalf of three political parties to overturn a new law that enables the Democratic and Republican parties – but no one else – from obtaining lists of people who will vote on Tuesday’s presidential primary.
Protesters killed at Yemen rally
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At least three demonstrators and a policeman have been killed in clashes between Yemeni security forces and thousands of demonstrators calling for greater rights and benefits, according to witnesses.
Robert Fisk: Bloody reality bears no relation to the delusions of this President
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Twixt silken sheets - in a bedroom whose walls are also covered in silk - and in the very palace of King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, President George Bush awakes this morning to confront a Middle East which bears no relation to the policies of his administration nor the warning which he has been relaying constantly to the kings and emirs and oligarchs of the Gulf: that Iran rather than Israel is their enemy.
First subglacial eruption found in Antarctica
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The first evidence of a volcanic eruption beneath Antarctica's ice has been discovered by scientists.
International Oil Companies Are the Real Dinosaurs
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In an exlusive SPIEGEL interview, OPEC Secretary-General Abdalla Salem el-Badri discusses the dangers of a further dramatic rise in the oil price, the failures of multinational oil companies and considerations within the cartel of oil-exporting nations to trade in euros rather than dollars.
Minus Members' Power, Unions Face Mounting Bargaining Woes
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William Ehman got acquainted with the current direction of collective bargaining in his industry from the back of a squad car. The former president of Steelworkers Local 1537, Ehman led a group of nine retirees to a mid-September union meeting to discuss current negotiations with Latrobe Steel.
Pre-emptive nuclear strike a key option, Nato told
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The west must be ready to resort to a pre-emptive nuclear attack to try to halt the "imminent" spread of nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction, according to a radical manifesto for a new Nato by five of the west's most senior military officers and strategists.
Community voice needed to reduce crime
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Now, just past the first anniversary of Chief James Tuffey's reorganization of the Albany Police Department, is an appropriate time to consider the full impact of his enforcement policies.
[This article was written by Alice Green, a member of the Albany, NY Greens]
People of Color Face Historic Wealth Loss
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The subprime lending debacle should cause massive rethinking among those who have long proclaimed that the route to Black equality is through wealth accumulation. In a report titled, "Foreclosed: State of the Dream 2008," United for a Fair Economy details the catastrophic losses inflicted on Blacks and Latinos in the U.S. at the hands of predatory lenders - "the greatest loss of wealth to people of color in modern U.S. history." With more than half of Blacks in many cities caught in the subprime trap - and with even these usurious financing schemes disappearing in the wake of the bubble-burst - the prospects for Blacks to amass wealth have grown bleaker than at any time in living memory. At the current rate, it will take 5,423 years for Blacks to achieve homeowner parity with whites.
World's largest river island washing away under flood waters
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It may be the largest river island in the world but it is steadily shrinking - eroded by the Brahmaputra river in which it is situated. Efforts to preserve the island and halt the erosion, caused by the glacial flood waters of the Himalayas, have been unco-ordinated and - say critics - ineffective
Did GSK trial data mask Paxil suicide risk?
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AN INAPPROPRIATE analysis of clinical trial data by researchers at GlaxoSmithKline obscured suicide risks associated with paroxetine, a profitable antidepressant, for 15 years, suggest court documents (897kb, requires Acrobat Reader) released last month. Not until 2006 did GSK alert people to raised suicide risks associated with the drug, marketed as Paxil and Seroxat.
New Mexico's Missing Ballot Boxes
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Heath Haussamen, a New Mexico political columnist and blogger, has reported a developing story that suggests overzealous Democratic Party officials -- who may be Clinton supporters -- took home four ballot boxes after Super Tuesday's caucuses that were not counted in the Election Night results.
Lost wetlands being recovered
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MALAYSIA has lost almost half of its mangroves over the past four decades and this alarming trend will continue if we do not recognise the grave implications.
Court Rejects ACLU Challenge to Wiretaps
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court rejected a challenge Tuesday to the Bush administration's domestic spying program.
A Young Politician Becomes a House Painter
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On a late January morning, Jason West was under the weather and late for work. Sniffling and weary from nights of sleeping on a friend’s floor in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, the former mayor of the Village of New Paltz showed up at a building on West 60th Street, where he was on a job, in paint-splattered jeans and a work shirt.
Why Israeli general avoided Heathrow arrest
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Lawyers for the victims of an alleged Israeli war criminal criticised British police today for allowing him to slip through the net.
Tuna fisheries facing a cod-like collapse
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The collapse of north Atlantic cod populations could provide an important lesson for preventing tuna from suffering a similar fate worldwide, researchers say.
Nader Announces New Run for President
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Ralph Nader said Sunday he will run for president as a third-party candidate, criticizing the top White House contenders as too close to big business and pledging to repeat a bid that will "shift the power from the few to the many."
Australia urged to take lead on climate change
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Australia is more vulnerable economically than most wealthy nations to the effects of climate change, according to a new report.
A Third Way
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"You are either with us, or with the terrorists," said US President George W. Bush a couple of days after the horrendous 2001 attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Prior to this statement, Bush had made it clear that his is a "crusade" against "terror" and "the powers of darkness." This simplistic binary approach employed by the American president and his right-wing administration -- supported wholeheartedly by the powerful CNNized media -- attempts to close the door in the face of a third way: a more rational, secular and democratic one that fights terrorism whether nihilistic or state-sponsored.
Pakistan Blocks YouTube Video Access
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) -- Pakistan's government has banned access to the video-sharing Web site YouTube because of anti-Islamic movies that users have posted on the site, an official said Sunday.
Matt Gonzalez is announced as Nader's Vice Presidential Running Mate
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Matt Gonzalez is Ralph Nader's Vice Presidential running mate. In 2000, Gonzalez was elected to the 11 member San Francisco Board of Supervisors, which supervises a city with a budget of $6 billion. He became President of the Board three years later.
End of an era as Paisley steps down
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The Rev Ian Paisley has signalled the end of an era by announcing he will step down as leader of Northern Ireland's power-sharing administration and the Democratic Unionist Party.
Global warming may raise tundra wildfire risk
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Arctic tundra fires may increase significantly as a result of continued global warming, warns a new study examining the relationship between historic changes in climate, vegetation, and wildfires in Alaska.
'US plot against Hamas' revealed
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The US plotted to overthrow the democratically elected Hamas government in the Palestinian territories, documents obtained by Al Jazeera reveal.
California cows start passing gas to the grid
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Imagine a vat of liquid cow manure covering the area of five football fields and 33 feet deep. Meet California's most alternative new energy.
'I fell in love with a female assassin'
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There comes a point in every new relationship when your girlfriend wants to share a secret. Usually it's to do with sex - how many other partners she's had (with a few conveniently erased) - that sort of thing. Often, the secret changes the basis of the relationship; honesty comes with consequences. But what happens if your new girlfriend has a much darker and more sinister secret than having slept around a bit?
A payout in medicine-autism case
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ATLANTA - For those convinced that vaccines can cause autism, the sad case of a Georgia girl, daughter of a doctor and lawyer, seems like clear-cut evidence. The government agreed to pay for injury caused by vaccines.
But it turns out it's not that simple - and maybe not even a first.
US loses 63,000 jobs as economic woes deepen
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WASHINGTON (AFP) - A stumbling US economy lost 63,000 jobs in February, according to a shockingly weak report released Friday as a top White House adviser offered a grim outlook for growth.
ENVIRONMENT: Action Will Prove Much Cheaper
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OSLO, Mar 7 (IPS) - Government inaction will lead to increased climate change, species loss, increased water shortages and health problems by 2030, according to a new OECD report. But key challenges can be addressed at a fraction of the cost of inaction.
Climate change may spark conflict with Russia, EU told
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European governments have been told to plan for an era of conflict over energy resources, with global warming likely to trigger a dangerous contest between Russia and the west for the vast mineral riches of the Arctic.
Solar Company Says Its Tech Can Power 90 Percent of Grid and Cars
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Solar-power-plant company Ausra has released a paper claiming that solar-thermal electric technology can provide 90 percent of U.S. grid electricity, with enough left over to power a fleet of plug-in electric vehicles. The company estimates that such a changeover would eliminate 40 percent of the country's greenhouse gas emissions with a land footprint of 9,600 square miles, about the size of Vermont.
Olmert approves hundreds of homes on occupied land
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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has approved the construction of hundreds of new housing units at a Jewish settlement in the Occupied West Bank, setting off another crisis in embattled Palestinian-Israeli peace negotiations. "After a series of consultations with the prime minister, Housing Minister Zeev Boim has approved the relaunching of construction in Givat Zeev," the Israeli Housing Ministry said in a statement on Sunday.
Melting glaciers start countdown to climate chaos
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For centuries, writers, painters and photographers have been drawn to the wild and seemingly indestructible beauty of glaciers. More practically, they are a vital part of the planet's system for collecting, storing and delivering the fresh water that billions of people depend on for washing, drinking, agriculture and power. Now these once indomitable monuments are disappearing. And as they retreat, glacial lakes will burst, debris and ice will fall in avalanches, rivers will flood and then dry up, and sea levels will rise even further, say the climate experts. Communities will be deprived of essential water, crops will be ruined and power stations which rely on river flows paralysed.
Gene May Help Explain Stress Disorder
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Groundbreaking research suggests genes help explain why some people can recover from a traumatic event while others suffer post-traumatic stress disorder. Though preliminary, the study provides insight into a condition expected to strike increasing numbers of military veterans returning from combat in Iraq and Afghanistan, one health expert said.
Florida panther population fell to just six
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As bottlenecks go, they don't get much narrower. Florida panthers, nearly wiped out in the early 20th century, dropped to a population size of as little as six animals.
Soon, gory pictures on cigarette packs
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NEW DELHI: From June 24, all packets of tobacco products will carry pictorial warnings in a bid to deter people from smoking. The Union health ministry has issued the final notification, according to which 40% of the space on tobacco packs will have to carry the warnings.
A clump of cells? Or a living being with a soul?
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Is a bunch of cells just that: a bunch of cells, as scientists would have it, or is it, as the Catholic Church insists, a human being with a soul?
Antarctic ice shelf 'hanging by a thread'
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A thin strip of ice, just 6 kilometres wide, is all that is holding back the collapse of a huge ice shelf in Antarctica, according to glaciologists.
Syria Now Home to a Million 'Pillow Drivers'
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More than a million Iraqis in Syria cannot find work. For their idleness, they have come to be called the "pillow drivers".
Army's New PTSD Treatments: Yoga, Reiki, 'Bioenergy'
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The military is scrambling for new ways to treat the brain injuries and post-traumatic stress of troops returning home from war. And every kind of therapy -- no matter how far outside the accepted medical form-- is being considered. The Army just unveiled a $4 million program to investigate everything from "spiritual ministry, transcendental meditation, [and] yoga" to "bioenergies such as Qi gong, Reiki, [and] distant healing" to mend the psyches of wounded troops
Tibetans in exile show high rates of depression
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Has becoming part of China improved the health of Tibetans? The Tibetan government in exile would say absolutely not – their figures indicate that 1.2 million Tibetans have died as a result of Chinese occupation.
How Green is the Latin American Left? A Look at Ecuador, Venezuela and Bolivia
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Across Latin America, resurgent indigenous, labor and campesino movements have contributed to the rise of new governments that declare their independence from the neoliberal economic model, promise a more equitable distribution of wealth and increased state control over natural resources. But it is uncertain how far these new governments have gone to transform the ecologically unsustainable model of development that dominates the region.
The other global crisis: rush to biofuels is driving up price of food
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The world's most powerful finance ministers and central bankers are meeting in Washington tomorrow; but as they preoccupy themselves with the global credit crunch, another crisis, far more grave, is facing the world's poorest people.
Is this the beginning of water wars?
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As Barcelona runs out of water, Spain has been forced to consider importing water from France by boat. It is the latest example of the growing struggle for water around the world – the "water wars".
Report Warns on Serious Health Problems Linked to Bisphenol A
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A U.S. government report revealed Tuesday that a dangerous chemical called bisphenol A (BPA), present in plastic packaging such as baby bottles, might be harmful to the development of children’s brains and reproductive organs.
Our reign of terror, by the Israeli army
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In shocking testimonies that reveal abductions, beatings and torture, Israeli soldiers confess the horror they have visited on Hebron
Paraguay votes in key elections
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The people of Paraguay are voting in elections that could end 61 years of domination by one party. The Colorado Party has been in power since 1947, the longest-serving party in continuous rule in the world.
Barbaric 'honour killings' become the weapon to subjugate women in Iraq
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At first glance Shawbo Ali Rauf appears to be slumbering on the grass, her pale brown curls framing her face, her summer skirt spread about her. But the awkward position of her limbs and the splattered blood reveal the true horror of the scene.
UN condemns biofuels growth
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Monday's meeting in Switzerland follows a warning from the UN's Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, who says developed countries and the biofuel industry are largely to blame for the current food shortages.
Food costs spark protest in Senegal
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More than 1,000 people, some carrying empty rice sacks, have marched through Senegal's capital Dakar to protest against rising food prices.
Indian vultures circling towards extinction
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The griffon vultures that used to number in the tens of millions in India could be extinct in the country within a decade, experts say. Vulture populations started plummeting in the 1990s. New research shows efforts to stop the die-off are failing, and New Scientist can reveal that the domino effects on humans and the ecosystem are worsening.
The world doesn't want Leninism with its shopping malls
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We all remember one phrase from the first presidential campaign by a Clinton. When Bill Clinton was running for the job in the early 1990s, one of his staff explained what the central issue in the election was. "It's the economy, stupid." he said. Economics explains all - jobs, prices, savings, houses. It determines the public mood and sets the political agenda.
Second US aircraft carrier deployed to Gulf
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US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said Tuesday the deployment of a second aircraft carrier to the Gulf should be seen as a "reminder" of US military power in the region.
Trees may cut childhood asthma risk, says study
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Living on a tree-lined street reduces a child's risk of developing asthma compared with life in a grey inner-city neighbourhood, according to researchers. They found that asthma rates among four- to five-year-olds fell by almost a quarter for every 343 extra trees per square kilometre in an urban area.
Gaza 'on point of explosion' warns UN
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Gaza is about to reach a "point of explosion" that could lead to another breakout by the desperate Palestinian population, trapped by an Israeli economic blockade, the most senior UN official in the territory has warned.
Zimbabwe parties challenge parliamentary results
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Zimbabwe's ruling ZANU-PF party and the opposition MDC have contested half the results of the March 29 parliamentary election, state media said on Wednesday, extending a stalemate that has triggered widespread violence.
Melting glaciers release toxic chemical cocktail
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Decades after most countries stopped spraying DDT, frozen stores of the insecticide are now trickling out of melting Antarctic glaciers. The change means Adélie penguins have recently been exposed to the chemical, according to a new study.
Beirut paralysed by labour strike
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Protesters allied to Lebanon's Hezbollah-led political opposition have blocked streets in the capital Beirut to enforce an anti-government labour strike.
Post-War Suicides May Exceed Combat Deaths, U.S. Says
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The number of suicides among veterans of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan may exceed the combat death toll because of inadequate mental health care, the U.S. government's top psychiatric researcher said.
Baby caribou hit by climate double whammy
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Common understanding has it that as climate change raises temperatures, spring will – and in some cases already does – start earlier. The question is: what effect will this have on the animals that depend on spring? A seven-year study in Western Greenland suggests the effect won't be good for the local caribou.
Slavery Today: A Clear and Present Danger
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Slavery never ended in the United States; it continues here and across the globe, facilitated by globalization, corruption and greed. There are more people enslaved today - controlled by violence and forced to work without pay - than at any time in human history.
Immigrants flee South Africa over attacks
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More than 10,000 Mozambicans have fled home from South Africa to escape xenophobic attacks that have killed at least 42 people, officials in the neighboring country said on Wednesday.
Palestinians and Israelis come together to lose weight, make peace
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There's the weekly weigh-in, the tips on healthy snacking and the chit-chat between women about unruly kids or errant husbands. But this is a slimming group with a difference: half its members are Palestinian, half are Israeli and the aim is to foster dialogue, through a common battle with weight.
Crisis talks on global food prices
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World leaders are to meet next week for urgent talks aimed at preventing tens of millions of the world's poor dying of hunger as a result of soaring food prices. The summit in Rome is expected to pledge immediate aid to poor countries threatened by malnutrition as well as charting longer-term strategies for improving food production.
Eviction orders approved for 2 settler-occupied Hebron stores
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The Judea and Samaria Appeals Committee of the Civil Administration, the Israel Defense Forces arm that governs civilian affairs in the West Bank, approved on Tuesday eviction orders for two Hebron stores occupied by settlers roughly two years ago.
Incredible shrinking frogs: The price of deforestation?
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Human disruption to habitats not only causes populations to get smaller, it also seems to cause the individuals of some species to literally shrink.
Now the opposition takes up arms in Zimbabwe
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Fears of civil war in Zimbabwe escalated yesterday as it emerged that opposition supporters, frustrated by police inaction at the brutal intimidation campaign being waged by President Robert Mugabe's allies, have begun to form their own "revenge forces".
Nature laid waste: The destruction of Africa
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It was long shrouded in mystery, called "the Dark Continent" by Europeans in awe of its massive size and impenetrable depths. Then its wondrous natural riches were revealed to the world. Now a third image of Africa and its environment is being laid before us – one of destruction on a vast and disturbing scale
Arctic thaw threatens Siberian permafrost
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The permafrost belt stretching across Siberia to Alaska and Canada could start melting three times faster than expected because of the speed at which Arctic Sea ice is disappearing.
Maliki says talks with Americans at impasse over threat to sovereignty
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Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said Friday negotiations with the US on a long-term security pact were deadlocked because of concern the deal infringes Iraqi sovereignty
Thousands of European truckers join fuel protests
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Tens of thousands of truckers in Spain, France and Portugal on Monday stepped up protests against rising fuel prices, causing mayhem on highways and blocking border crossings.
Palestinian woman films masked men attacking W. Bank farmers
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The Israeli human rights group B'Tselem released a video on Friday which it said showed the start of an assault on Palestinian farmers by masked, stick-wielding Israeli settlers.
Graduate student pushes for Jewish state in Germany
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Whenever someone launches an initiative towards establishing a Jewish state in addition to the one already in existence, there is invariably a ripple effect. This time, however, an even bigger stir than usual has been caused by the proposed site of the "second Israel": Germany.
Several die in Russia violence
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Russia's volatile north Caucasus has experienced one of its worst eruptions of violence in months with at least eight people killed in a series of attacks across the region, officials have said.
What price cotton?
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If biofuels are so bad, why aren't we campaigning against cotton?
Bangladesh is set to disappear under the waves by the end of the century
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This spring, I took a month-long road trip across a country that we - you, me and everyone we know - are killing. One day, not long into my journey, I travelled over tiny ridges and groaning bridges on the back of a motorbike to reach the remote village of Munshigonj. The surviving villagers - gaunt, creased people - were sitting by a stagnant pond. They told me, slowly, what we have done to them.
Jerusalem officials to High Court: Gay parade desecrates holy city
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Jerusalem's mayor and city manager urged the High Court of Justice on Thursday to prevent the Gay Pride parade from taking place in the capital next Thursday, on the grounds that it would offend the public's sensibilities
Public pressure forces Cairo to 'review' sale of gas to Israel
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In the last two months, popular and parliamentary opposition to the sale of Egyptian natural gas to Israel - at undisclosed prices - has mounted. As a result, in a rare nod to public opinion, the government recently announced that it was "reviewing" the terms of the sale agreement. "The government was finally embarrassed into partially addressing our concerns," Mohammad Anwar al-Sadat, a former MP and spokesman for the recently founded Popular Campaign against Gas Exports told IPS in an interview.
Aboriginal control of Aboriginal affairs
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The paternalistic Northern Territory intervention, started up under the Howard Coalition government, and continued by the Rudd Labor government, has reignited the push for Aboriginal control of Aboriginal affairs
India tiptoes to the new Middle East
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