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Rio+20 Earth summit: scientists call for action on population
Full Article The Guardian
14 Jun 2012

Joint report by 105 institutions urges negotiators to drop political inhibitions and confront rising global population and consumption A worker, left, hauls a bag of charcoal produced from illegally harvested Amazon rainforest wood onto a truck in Rondon do Para, Brazil. Photograph: Mario Tama/Getty Images...
File - The world's population reached 7 billion on 31 October, 2011. Pictured near an entrance to UN Headquarters is a banner for a global campaign by the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) to build awareness of the opportunities and challenges posed by this milestone.
photo: UN / Rick Bajornas

Explosion in steel plant in south India kills 11
Full Article Herald Tribune
14 Jun 2012

HYDERABAD, India - An explosion in a state-owned steel plant in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh has killed at least 11 people, police said Thursday. At least 16 other workers suffered serious burns in the blast and a massive fire that broke out late Wednesday in the plant in the coastal city of Visakhapatnam, said Police Commissioner...
In this June 13, 2012, photograph, an injured employee of a steel plant is being rushed to a hospital in Visakhapatnam, India.
photo: AP

Russia urged to get tough on Syria
Full Article BBC News
14 Jun 2012

Russia is facing increased pressure to harden its approach to Syria, with a number of countries warning of a descent into civil war. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has warned Moscow it risks losing influence in the Middle East if it does not act more constructively. France wants the Annan peace plan to be enforced under the UN charter. But...
United Nation observers inspect a government military position at the Talbisah area in Homs city Syria Monday June 11, 2012.
photo: AP / David Manyua/United Nations

Suu Kyi visits Europe for 1st time in 24 years
Full Article CBC
14 Jun 2012

Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is kicking off her first trip to Europe in 24 years with a visit to Switzerland, her first stop in a five-country tour that will include a trip to Norway, where she will deliver an acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize she was awarded more than 20 years ago. The trip to Europe is seen as a sign of...
Myanmar opposition Leader Aung San Suu Kyi talks to reporters as she arrives at Yangon International airport Wednesday, June 13, 2012, in Yangon, Myanmar.
photo: AP

Syria says enclave 'cleansed,' Russia accuses US
Full Article Yahoo Daily News
13 Jun 2012

Syria's government said on Wednesday it has "cleansed terrorists" from Al-Haffe, a Sunni enclave feared to be the site of a new massacre, as Russia accused the United States of arming rebels. The rebel Free Syrian Army said its fighters pulled out of Al-Haffe in a tactical move to spare civilians of the beleaguered northwestern town after an...
People and security forces inspect the scene of a car bomb attack in the Karrada neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, June 13, 2012.
photo: AP / Karim Kadim

Falklands to hold 2013 referendum in bid to settle sovereignty dispute
Full Article The Independent
13 Jun 2012

The announcement of the poll comes ahead of tomorrow's 30th anniversary of the end of the 74-day occupation by the Galtieri junta in 1982. The Argentine President, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, is due to raise the issue at the United Nations, part of a ratcheting up of tension over the disputed islands. The British and Falkland Islands...
Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez prepares to toss carnations into the Beagle Channel at a ceremony marking the 30th anniversary of the start of the Falkland conflict near the war memorial in Ushuaia, Argentina, Monday April 2, 2012.
photo: AP / Natacha Pisarenko

Serving Down Under: Australia offers military jobs to US troops facing separation
Full Article Stars and Stripes
12 Jun 2012

YOKOTA AIR BASE, JapanU.S. servicemembers looking at career options in this era of shrinking military budgets and force drawdowns might want to take a look Down Under. The Australian government is recruiting experienced U.S. enlisted personnel and officers to fill a range of positions — from submariners to doctors — in its...
Serving Down Under: Australia offers military jobs to US troops facing separation
photo: US Army / Michael J. MacLeod

Syria: UN observers blocked from entering town of al-Haffeh, fired at upon departure
Full Article United Nations
12 Jun 2012

In Homs, Syria, smoke drifts into the sky from buildings and houses hit by shelling. Photo: UNSMIS12 June 2012 – Following repeated efforts, UN observers were unable to reach the Syrian town of al-Haffeh today as angry crowds surrounded their vehicles, stopping them from proceeding any further, after which they were shot at as they departed. "The...
Syrian women walk next to a destroyed military tank in the northern town of Ariha, on the outskirts of Idlib, Syria, Sunday, June 10, 2012.
photo: AP

Irrational Voting Patterns and Votercide
Full Article WorldNews.com
12 Jun 2012

Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling If to live is to act and to act is to decide, then to democratize is to vote and to vote is to also decide. But if the Wisconsin Recall Election (WRE) and recent voting purges in Florida are any indication of America's participatory democracy in action, a disturbing trend has developed, mainly...
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, center, holds his first cabinet meeting at the state Capitol Wednesday, June 6, 2012, in Madison, Wis., after Walker beat Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett in a recall election.
photo: AP / Andy Manis

U.N. optimistic on U.S. aid for North Korea, food still a problem
Full Article Yahoo Daily News
12 Jun 2012

BEIJING (Reuters) - The United Nations is optimistic it can get the United States to provide aid for isolated North Korea where chronic problems with its agriculture remain a huge stumbling block to development, the top UN official in the country said on Tuesday. The United States said in April it would not go forward with planned food aid to North...
In this photo taken on Sunday, April 8, 2012, a North Korean man pulls an ox drawn cart near North Korean residents working in a field on the outskirts of Pyongyang, North Korea.
photo: AP / Ng Han Guan


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Many Indians cannot accept Gujarat 's strongman as Prime Minister. It may be time to accept he may become that anyway says commentator Samar Halarnkar. We send more Muslims to...
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As they watch the shambles over Saif al-Islam Gaddafi's fate unfold in Libya, one can almost hear the sighs of relief emanating from the American government: thank God for...

15 countries in Afghanistan’s region try to tackle common threats, problems together
KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghanistan’s neighbors and other regional countries are meeting in Kabul to do something they rarely do — try to tackle common threats and problems together. The first...
photo: US DoD / Erin A. Kirk-Cuomo
Barroso warns EU parliament of eurozone breakup
European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso has called on the EU parliament to give up its national sovereinty posture in the face of the eurozone debt crisis and tackle the problems together. The European commission president is watching the...
photo: EC / EC
UN review lashes SA over secrecy Bill
South Africa has received widespread international condemnation of its secrecy Bill during a UN review of the country's human rights record. (Lisa Skinner, M&G;) The United States, Canada, Czech Republic, Germany, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Sweden and...
photo: UN / Eskinder Debebe
Children without borders
Working towards a vision of a region free from violence against children, representatives from South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) renewed their commitment to end atrocities against the children in their region at the meet of the...
photo: UN / Eskinder Debebe
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon meets with Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, president of Argentina at Nuclear Security Summit.
EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press= UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Argentina's president is pressing her country's claim to the Falkland Islands with a high-profile appearance Thursday before a little-known U.N. committee on the 30th anniversary of Britain's...
photo: UN / UN
John Edwards, second from left, speaks outside a federal courthouse as his daughter Cate Edwards, left, and parents Wallace Edwards, second from right, and Bobbie Edwards, right, look on after the jury's verdict in his trial on charges of campaign corruption in Greensboro, N.C., Thursday, May 31, 2012.
The US justice department has dropped its criminal case against former senator John Edwards, closing the book on a prosecution that had threatened the two-time presidential hopeful with prison and a further fall from grace. "We knew that this case -...
photo: AP / Chuck Burton
Palestinian students drink water from a public tap in the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) headquarters in Rafah refugee camp in the southern of Gaza Strip on November 02, 2011. The United States cut its funding to the UN's cultural arm after a majority of member states defied American and Israeli warnings and voted to allow jubilant Palestinians full membership in the organisation. PHOTO BY AHMED DEEB/WN
Gaza's only fresh source of water is too dangerous to drink because of contamination by fertiliser and human waste, a new report says. The charities Save the Children and Medical Aid for Palestinians say the number of children being treated for...
photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb
Population Growth; updated 30 May 2012; published 19 Apr 2010
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Population Growth
The Guardian 14 Jun 2012, Joint report by 105 institutions urges negotiators to drop political inhibitions and confront rising global population and consumption A worker, left, hauls a bag of charcoal produced from illegally harvested Amazon rainforest wood onto a truck in Rondon do Para, Brazil. Photograph: Mario Tama/Getty Images...

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Sakshi TV - Massive Explosion And Fire In Vizag Steel Plant, 16 Dead, Many Injured; updated 14 Jun 2012; published 14 Jun 2012
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Sakshi TV - Massive Explosion And Fire In Vizag Steel Plant, 16 Dead, Many Injured
Herald Tribune 14 Jun 2012, HYDERABAD, India - An explosion in a state-owned steel plant in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh has killed at least 11 people, police said Thursday. At least 16 other workers suffered serious burns in the blast and a massive fire that broke out late Wednesday in the plant in the coastal city of Visakhapatnam, said Police Commissioner...

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US: Russia Sending Syria Attack Helicopters; updated 13 Jun 2012; published 12 Jun 2012
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US: Russia Sending Syria Attack Helicopters
BBC News 14 Jun 2012, Russia is facing increased pressure to harden its approach to Syria, with a number of countries warning of a descent into civil war. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has warned Moscow it risks losing influence in the Middle East if it does not act more constructively. France wants the Annan peace plan to be enforced under the UN charter. But...

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Aung San Suu Kyi set for historic European tour; updated 12 Jun 2012; published 11 Jun 2012
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Aung San Suu Kyi set for historic European tour
CBC 14 Jun 2012, Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is kicking off her first trip to Europe in 24 years with a visit to Switzerland, her first stop in a five-country tour that will include a trip to Norway, where she will deliver an acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize she was awarded more than 20 years ago. The trip to Europe is seen as a sign of...

UN and US worry Syrian government is planning more massacres; updated 13 Jun 2012; published 12 Jun 2012
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UN and US worry Syrian government is planning more massacres
Yahoo Daily News 13 Jun 2012, Syria's government said on Wednesday it has "cleansed terrorists" from Al-Haffe, a Sunni enclave feared to be the site of a new massacre, as Russia accused the United States of arming rebels. The rebel Free Syrian Army said its fighters pulled out of Al-Haffe in a tactical move to spare civilians of the beleaguered northwestern town after an...

20th Century Battlefields - Falklands War; updated 13 Jun 2012; published 22 Dec 2011
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20th Century Battlefields - Falklands War
The Independent 13 Jun 2012, The announcement of the poll comes ahead of tomorrow's 30th anniversary of the end of the 74-day occupation by the Galtieri junta in 1982. The Argentine President, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, is due to raise the issue at the United Nations, part of a ratcheting up of tension over the disputed islands. The British and Falkland Islands...

One Taliban killed 4 French soldiers & Panjshiri interpreter in Kapisa - AFGHANISTAN; updated 11 Jun 2012; published 09 Jun 2012
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One Taliban killed 4 French soldiers & Panjshiri interpreter in Kapisa - AFGHANISTAN
Stars and Stripes 12 Jun 2012, YOKOTA AIR BASE, JapanU.S. servicemembers looking at career options in this era of shrinking military budgets and force drawdowns might want to take a look Down Under. The Australian government is recruiting experienced U.S. enlisted personnel and officers to fill a range of positions — from submariners to doctors — in its...

UN and US worry Syrian government is planning more massacres; updated 13 Jun 2012; published 12 Jun 2012
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UN and US worry Syrian government is planning more massacres
United Nations 12 Jun 2012, In Homs, Syria, smoke drifts into the sky from buildings and houses hit by shelling. Photo: UNSMIS12 June 2012 – Following repeated efforts, UN observers were unable to reach the Syrian town of al-Haffeh today as angry crowds surrounded their vehicles, stopping them from proceeding any further, after which they were shot at as they departed. "The...

Obama To Green Bay ABC: Too Busy For WI Recall; updated 13 Jun 2012; published 11 Jun 2012
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Obama To Green Bay ABC: Too Busy For WI Recall
WorldNews.com 12 Jun 2012, Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling If to live is to act and to act is to decide, then to democratize is to vote and to vote is to also decide. But if the Wisconsin Recall Election (WRE) and recent voting purges in Florida are any indication of America's participatory democracy in action, a disturbing trend has developed, mainly...

US suspends food aid to North Korea; updated 12 Jun 2012; published 29 Mar 2012
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US suspends food aid to North Korea
Yahoo Daily News 12 Jun 2012, BEIJING (Reuters) - The United Nations is optimistic it can get the United States to provide aid for isolated North Korea where chronic problems with its agriculture remain a huge stumbling block to development, the top UN official in the country said on Tuesday. The United States said in April it would not go forward with planned food aid to North...

Talk to Al Jazeera - Omar al-Bashir; updated 13 May 2012; published 09 Jan 2011
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Talk to Al Jazeera - Omar al-Bashir
BBC News 12 Jun 2012, The next African Union summit has been moved to the Ethiopian capital after Malawi refused to host the gathering. The body said its July meeting would be in Addis Ababa after Malawi blocked the attendance of Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC). The AU's Ferdinand Montcho accused...

Ethnic Conflict and Reform in Myanmar (Dispatch); updated 27 May 2012; published 08 Mar 2012
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Ethnic Conflict and Reform in Myanmar (Dispatch)
Jakarta Post 12 Jun 2012, With sectarian tension on the boil in Myanmar's Rakhine state, analysts and diplomats are worried about the spreading violence as well as a heavy- handed crackdown. On Monday, security forces sought to restore order after a weekend of violence in which Rakhine Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims set upon each other, torching houses in towns and entire...

At ALBA Summit, Chavez confident of re-election win 02-06-12; updated 17 May 2012; published 06 Feb 2012
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At ALBA Summit, Chavez confident of re-election win 02-06-12
Belfast Telegraph 12 Jun 2012, Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez has rallied tens of thousands of supporters while wearing his signature red beret and singing a folk song as he launched his re-election bid. Mr Chavez waved and blew kisses to crowds while he rode atop a...

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BBC News 12 Jun 2012, Children in Syria have accused troops of using them as human shields, a UN report has revealed. Some children said they had been forced to ride on tanks to stop attacks by opposition fighters, the report said. The UN's Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict said children were being tortured in detention and slaughtered in...





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