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BYU scientists take lawmakers to task on climate change issuesSalt Lake TribuneThey challenged lawmakers for giving the "fringe" position of a climate skeptic equal weight to that of the broad, scientific consensus that climate change ...BYU scientists rip lawmakers over climate changeLocalNews8.comall 6 news articles ». (Read More)
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Scott Olson / Getty Images As neo-Nazis take to the streets this weekend, officials say their new boldness echoes the homegrown terrorism of the 1990s. James Verini talks to the extremists leading the charge. A year after President Obama's election, hate groups are feeling bolder than they have in (Read More)
The Guardian:
Fifteen years after the genocide that killed a million people, Rwanda's warring tribes have reached a truce. But will it hold? Here, the world's leading writer on Rwanda meets the killers, the survivors, and the man bringing them togetherWhen I began visiting Rwanda, in 1995, a year after the genocide, the country was still (Read More)
The Guardian:
International levy on financial trading would help developing world deal with climate changeA row blew up last night after Gordon Brown promoted plans for an international tax on City dealing that could raise funds for the world's poor and help developing countries tackle climate change.No sooner had the prime minister floa (Read More)
The Guardian:
Twenty years on Europe and the US have squandered their victory, Russia is mired in depression and China has new powerThose who witnessed that night 20 years ago in Berlin, or elsewhere in Germany, will never forget what happened – the night the Berlin wall came down.History in the making is all too often tragic. Only rarel (Read More)
CNN:
Rain and strong winds gave way to sunshine Saturday morning at St. Andrews, where the Group of 20 industrialized and developing countries met to discuss economic reform and climate change issues.
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The Guardian:
Soaring demand for food and land may not stop the world's rural communities from plunging deeper into povertyThe villagers of Thatarber Manihatty in south India knew they had no choice but to mortgage their small plots of farmland when they found they could not afford to bury dead relatives or send children to school withou (Read More)
New York Times:
If NATO close air support is responsible for the casualties, it would be one of the worst cases of friendly fire in the course of the eight-year war.
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The Guardian:
Levying a "transaction tax" on the frenzied activities of City traders and their rivals in the world's financial markets is not a new idea, but it may be one whose time has come.American economist James Tobin originally proposed the tax – levied at up to 1%, on foreign exchange transactions – in the 1970s, to tame damaging (Read More)
The Guardian:
After more than five years in jail, the British mercenary is seeking vengeance on others he says were part of the failed 'Wonga Coup' – including Mark ThatcherThe statements had a certain similarity. Sir Mark Thatcher and London-based millionaire Ely Calil, two people alleged to have played key roles in the failed coup atte (Read More)
The Guardian:
Fighters rearm and reinforce positions in valleys amid fears that Israel is about to launch attack on Islamic groupHezbollah is rapidly rearming in preparation for a new conflict with Israel, fearing that Benjamin Netanyahu's government will attack Lebanon again prior to any assault on Iran's nuclear facilities.Last week, I (Read More)
CNN:
Rain and strong winds gave way to sunshine Saturday morning at St. Andrews, where the Group of 20 industrialized and developing countries met to discuss economic reform and climate change issues. (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
Peers accuse prime minister of lacking commitment to the war and failing to support British troopsThree former defence chiefs have accused Gordon Brown of failing in his commitment to the war in Afghanistan and support for British troops.Field Marshal Lord Inge said the armed forces never really believed Brown was "on their (Read More)
The Guardian:
The outrage after undergraduate Philip Laing urinated on a war memorial has led many student unions to bar Carnage, the firm that runs the drinking eventsParticipating in at least a modicum of alcohol-induced mayhem is an integral and, some might say, a formative part of the modern undergraduate experience. But the company (Read More)