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Boeing: 787 Dreamliner may be flying again within weeks
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Boeing: 787 Dreamliner may be flying again within weeks
Fri 15 Mar 2013
Staff Pacific Business News The Boeing Co.'s 787 Dreamliner could be in the air again within a matter of weeks, company officials told reporters during a briefing in Tokyo. The Federal Aviation... (photo: European Community / EC)
Sun behind black and white clouds - climate change - environment
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Climate change cited as biggest threat
Tue 12 Mar 2013
The United State's top military official in the Pacific says the biggest long term security threat in the region is climate change. In an interview with the Boston Globe Admiral Samuel J Locklear... (photo: WN / Aruna Mirasdar)
File - A Marine with Weapons Platoon, Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, sprints down the line of heavy machine guns to deliver a map after a firefight with Taliban insurgents Feb. 9 at the “Five Points” intersection, a key junction of roads linking the northern area of the insurgent stronghold of Marjeh with the rest of Helmand province, Afghanistan.  Al Jazeera  Mon 11 Mar 2013
Several killed in Afghan 'insider attack'
Several Afghan and US-led coalition service members have been killed in the latest suspected insider attack on the international military force. Afghan officials said the incident on Monday took place... (photo: USMC / Sgt. Brian A. Tuthill)
Afghanistan   Photos   US   War   Wikipedia: War in Afghanistan (2001–present)
A deck crew member checks an EA-6B Prowlers on the USS George Washington during joint military drills in South Korea's East Sea on Sunday, July 25, 2010.  Al Jazeera  Mon 11 Mar 2013
S Korea-US drill stirs tensions with North
South Korean and US troops have launched a joint military exercise as North Korea, which has slammed the drill and threatened both countries with nuclear attack, severed its hotline with Seoul. The... (photo: AP / Yonhap, Lee Jung-hoon)
Military Drills   South Korea   United States   Wikipedia: U.S.–South Korea Status of Forces Agreement
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UN rights office calls for investigation into video showing torture of two men in Fiji United Nations Fri 8 Mar 2013
UN rights office calls for investigation into video showing torture of two men in Fiji
Print 8 March 2013 – The United Nations human rights office today expressed shock by the content of a video showing the apparent torture of two men in Fiji, and... (photo: UN / Jean-Marc Ferré)
Fiji   Human Rights   Photos   Torture   Wikipedia: Human rights
Islands Want Climate Change Seen As Security Threat By UN Huffington Post Sat 16 Feb 2013
Islands Want Climate Change Seen As Security Threat By UN
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The Marshall Islands and other low-lying island nations appealed to the U.N. Security Council to recognize climate change as an international... (photo: UN / UN)
Climate   Photos   Security   UN   Wikipedia: United Nations Security Council
The destroyed Venga village following a Tsunami Wednesday Feb. 6, 2013, in Temotu province, Solomon Islands. NZ Herald Thu 7 Feb 2013
Solomon Islands tsunami: Death toll rises to nine
Aid workers struggled to reach remote, tsunami-ravaged villages in the Solomon Islands on Thursday, as the death toll rose with more bodies found in wrecked homes and... (photo: AP / World Vision)
Natural Disaster   Photos   Solomon Islands   Tsunami   Wikipedia: 2013 Solomon Islands earthquake
In this Friday, Jan. 11, 2013 photo, workers build an elevated highway in Jakarta, Indonesia. Months behind schedule, the construction crew racing to finish a highway encircling Indonesia's traffic-choked capital is being blocked by a determined group of locals and the ramshackle cemetery that is home to their ancestors. Al Jazeera Wed 6 Feb 2013
Boom time for Indonesia's economy
The Indonesian economy is booming, according to the latest figures. Its economy grew by more than six percent last year, which is slightly slower than in 2011, but... (photo: AP / Achmad Ibrahim)
Asia   Economy   Jakarta   Photos   Wikipedia: Indonesia
Two Navy guards assigned to the Navy Expeditionary Guard Battalion escort a detainee. Al Jazeera Wed 6 Feb 2013
CIA renditions 'aided by 54 countries'
As many as 54 countries have been complicit in CIA's extraordinary rendition operations in which terrorism suspects were held in secret prisons overseas or... (photo: US Navy / U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Michael Baltz)
CIA   Extraordinary rendition   Human Rights   Terrorism


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Main Street, Honiara, population 49,107 (1999 census), 78,190 (2009 estimate), is the capital of the Solomon Islands and of Guadalcanal Province, although it is a separately administered town. Magnitude 6.3 quake strikes off Solomon Islands: USGS Sun Sentinel
An obese person strolls inside a mall in Bangkok, Thailand Obesity and its consequences spreading rapidly around the world PhysOrg
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Tottenham Hotspur forward Emmanuel Adebayor, covered by his teammates, celebrates after scoring during a Europa League round of 16 second-leg soccer match between Inter Milan and Tottenham Hotspur at the San Siro stadium in Milan, Italy, Thursday, March 14, 2013. Emmanuel Adebayor saves Tottenham's Europa League dream as Inter Milan win 4-1 but go out ... The Daily Telegraph
A view of gradually drying river - drought New Zealand suffering biggest drought in 30 years Khaleej Times
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