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Climate change and the food security dimension
Full Article Al Jazeera
25 Apr 2014

The world's most authoritative body on climate change science recently published a report emphasising that climate change is happening even faster, and with more damaging effects, than previously anticipated. The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Fifth Assessment Report made clear that climate change will be...

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File - A resident at a camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) near Mogadishu, Somalia, following the 2011 drought, 8 May, 2012.
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updated 08 Nov 2011; published 08 Nov 2011
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Food Security, Food Prices and Climate Change
updated 26 Nov 2013; published 26 Nov 2013
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Climate change and global food security
updated 28 Mar 2012; published 28 Mar 2012
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How to feed the world in 2050: actions in a changing climate
updated 31 Jan 2013; published 31 Jan 2013
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Food Security & Climate Change - Alexandre Meybeck
updated 02 Nov 2010; published 02 Nov 2010
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Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change -- A Triple Win?
updated 29 May 2012; published 29 May 2012
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Food insecurity and climate change
Asia tour: Obama heads for Seoul amid nuclear test fears
Full Article BBC News
25 Apr 2014

US President Barack Obama is due in Seoul, shortly for a visit that comes amid concern that North Korea may be planning a fourth nuclear test. Mr Obama, who arrives from Japan on the second stop of his Asian tour, will hold talks with South Korean leader Park Geun-hye. Their talks are set to focus on North Korea, following reports of activity at...

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file - A South Korean army soldier stands guard at a military checkpoint near the border village of Panmunjom, which has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, South Korea, Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2014.
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updated 25 Apr 2014; published 25 Apr 2014
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Obama in Seoul amid fears of North Korea nuclear test
updated 23 Apr 2014; published 23 Apr 2014
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North Korea nuke test unlikely during President Obama's visit to Asia 38 North
updated 25 Apr 2014; published 25 Apr 2014
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Obama Warns North Korea On Nuclear Test
updated 25 Apr 2014; published 25 Apr 2014
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U.S. President Barack Obama to visit Seoul Friday
updated 25 Apr 2014; published 25 Apr 2014
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South Korea says DPRK may be close to nuclear test
updated 22 Apr 2014; published 22 Apr 2014
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Is North Korea Planning Nuclear Test #4?
Israel suspends peace talks after Palestinian unity bid
Full Article The Himalayan
25 Apr 2014

Added At: 2014-04-25 8:08 AM Last Updated At: 2014-04-25 8:08 AM The Himalayan Times - Saved Articles(s) The headlines has been added to your saved article(s) To View your saved article(s)please Click Here » Close Reuters Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting in...

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Israel suspends peace talks after Palestinian unity bid
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updated 16 Feb 2012; published 16 Feb 2012
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Israelis on Peace Talks with Hamas: Fatah and Hamas sign Doha Declaration for Unity Government
updated 24 Apr 2014; published 24 Apr 2014
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Israel suspends peace talks after Fatah Hamas unity deal
updated 23 Apr 2014; published 23 Apr 2014
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Hamas, Abbas's PLO announce reconciliation agreement
updated 18 Mar 2014; published 18 Mar 2014
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Obama calls on Abbas to help break impase in Mideast peace talks
updated 23 Apr 2014; published 23 Apr 2014
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Palestinian Factions Agree on Unity Government, Official Says
updated 24 Apr 2014; published 24 Apr 2014
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Israel suspends peace talks with Palestinians over unity deal
Middle East peace: Israel breaks off talks with Palestinians over unity deal
Full Article The Independent
24 Apr 2014

Israel has suspended diplomatic contact with the Palestinians, putting the troubled Middle East peace process on ice in response to the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s national unity deal on Wednesday with the militant Hamas movement. “Instead of choosing peace, Abu Mazen [Mr Abbas] made an agreement with a murderous terror organisation that...

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File - Palestinians take part in a rally marking the 48th anniversary of the founding of the Fatah movement, in Gaza City on  January 4, 2013.
photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb

updated 24 Apr 2014; published 24 Apr 2014
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Israel suspends peace talks after Fatah-Hamas unity deal
updated 16 Feb 2012; published 16 Feb 2012
3:43
Israelis on Peace Talks with Hamas: Fatah and Hamas sign Doha Declaration for Unity Government
updated 24 Apr 2014; published 24 Apr 2014
0:36
Israel suspends peace talks after Fatah Hamas unity deal
updated 24 Apr 2014; published 24 Apr 2014
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Netanyahu says Abbas must abandon unity deal with Hamas''
updated 24 Apr 2014; published 24 Apr 2014
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BBC News Netanyahu says Abbas must abandon unity deal with Hamas
updated 24 Apr 2014; published 24 Apr 2014
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Israel says new Palestinian unity pact threatens MidEast peace process
Obama says U.S. will stand by treaty obligations to Japan
Full Article The Washington Post
24 Apr 2014

TOKYOPresident Obama affirmed the fact that United States’ treaty obligations to Japan extend to a chain of contested islands in the East China Sea Thursday, even as he emphasized that Japan and neighboring China should seek a peaceful resolution to the dispute. Speaking at a press conference with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Obama...

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President Barack Obama says U.S. will stand by treaty obligations to Japan
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updated 26 Jan 2014; published 26 Jan 2014
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WW3: JAPAN Vs CHINA - Devastating Effects To Come
updated 08 Feb 2014; published 08 Feb 2014
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Secretary of State vowed that the US would defend Japan against attack
updated 30 Nov 2013; published 30 Nov 2013
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Trouble in the East China Sea
updated 08 Apr 2014; published 08 Apr 2014
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US, Chuck Hagel warns Beijing that America will side with Japan
updated 08 Dec 2013; published 08 Dec 2013
20:43
April 2014 Breaking News China seeking to gain control of oceans in the Asia-Pacific region
updated 21 Sep 2011; published 21 Sep 2011
2:03
President Obama to UN: I Seek "A World Without Nuclear Weapons"
Ukraine troops take checkpoint north of Slaviansk
Full Article Yahoo Daily News
24 Apr 2014

KHRESTYSHCHE, Ukraine (Reuters) - Ukrainian troops with five light armored vehicles took control of a checkpoint north of Slaviansk on Thursday after pro-Russian separatists appeared to abandon the position, Reuters journalists said from the scene. When the armored unit approached along a road from...

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Armed Pro-Russian men on the street in Slovyansk, eastern Ukraine, Monday, April 21, 2014.
photo: AP / Sergei Grits

updated 24 Apr 2014; published 24 Apr 2014
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Ukraine troops take checkpoint north of Slaviansk
updated 24 Apr 2014; published 24 Apr 2014
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Ukrainian army storms illegal checkpoints killing at least five
updated 24 Apr 2014; published 24 Apr 2014
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UKRAINE-CHECKPOINT RETAKEN
updated 24 Apr 2014; published 24 Apr 2014
3:51
Russia orders new military exercises as Ukraine forces kill separatists in Slaviansk
updated 24 Apr 2014; published 24 Apr 2014
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Buld up to WW3 as GLOBALIST ELITE Eye Up UKRAINE
updated 25 Apr 2014; published 25 Apr 2014
3:18
Ukraine Says Its Efforts to Regain Control of East Will Continue
Armenian 'genocide': Turkey has lost the battle of truth
Full Article Al Jazeera
24 Apr 2014

"In actuality, how Turks and Armenians, as the owners of this common history, can together, through dialogue and empathy, reach a just memory of the tragic events of 1915, which occurred during the great human sufferings of World War I, is already being examined thoroughly and in all its dimensions. In this context, our proposal to establish a...

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An Armenian town left pillaged and destroyed after the massacres in Adana in 1909 showing a Minaret from which Turks fired on Christians.
photo: US Library of Congress / George Grantham Bain

updated 31 Jan 2013; published 31 Jan 2013
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Famous Turks telling truth about the Armenian Genocide Ermeni Soykırımı
updated 15 Nov 2012; published 15 Nov 2012
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The Armenian Genocide-The Truth 15/11/2012
updated 17 Jan 2014; published 17 Jan 2014
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Franco-Turkish War - The Battle Of Marash
updated 27 Apr 2012; published 27 Apr 2012
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Trip to Turkey with Medzmama, Armenian Genocide Survivior
updated 14 Jan 2013; published 14 Jan 2013
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The Armenian Genocide on Vimeo
updated 18 Feb 2010; published 18 Feb 2010
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Fox News: Congressman Condems Turkish Massacres
India votes on second biggest polling day
Full Article Al Jazeera
24 Apr 2014

The world's biggest election in India, which passed the halfway mark last week, has entered its second-biggest day of staggered polls, in which Narendra Modi of the Bharatiya Janata Party is widely seen as the front-runner to be country's next prime minister. In the...

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India votes on second biggest polling day
photo: WN / Bhaskar Mallick

updated 24 Apr 2014; published 24 Apr 2014
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India Votes on Second Biggest Polling Day
updated 17 Apr 2014; published 17 Apr 2014
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India votes on biggest polling day of general election - video
updated 24 Apr 2014; published 24 Apr 2014
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Indians vote on second biggest polling day
updated 17 Apr 2014; published 17 Apr 2014
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India election: Voting starts on biggest polling day - "NewsWatchking"
updated 17 Apr 2014; published 17 Apr 2014
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India election Voting starts on biggest polling day
updated 17 Apr 2014; published 17 Apr 2014
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Biggest polling day in India
All parties in Syria blocking aid, say Ban Ki-moon
Full Article BBC News
24 Apr 2014

The UN Secretary General has accused all parties in Syria's civil war of "flagrant violations" of international law over the delivery of aid. Ban Ki-moon urged the Security Council to act to implement a resolution passed in February demanding greater access. In his second report to the council on the...

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This file photo released on Saturday, Aug. 11, 2012 by the anti-government activist group Shaam News Network SNN, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, a man looks at destroyed buildings from Syrian forces shelling in Khaldiyeh, Homs, Syria.
photo: AP / Shaam News Network SNN

updated 24 Apr 2014; published 24 Apr 2014
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All parties in Syria blocking aid, say Ban Ki moon - 24 April 2014
updated 24 Apr 2014; published 24 Apr 2014
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All parties in Syria blocking aid, say Ban Ki-moon
updated 24 Apr 2014; published 24 Apr 2014
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UN chief Ban Ki-moon demands Security Council action on Syria - 24th April 2014
updated 24 Apr 2014; published 24 Apr 2014
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UN chief Ban Ki-moon demands Security Council action on Syria
updated 24 Apr 2014; published 24 Apr 2014
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UN Chief Ban Ki-moon calls for more support for Syrian refugees
updated 23 Feb 2014; published 23 Feb 2014
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Syria crisis: UN Security Council agrees aid resolution
The 11 Most Powerful Militaries In The World
Full Article Business Insider
23 Apr 2014

Asymmetrical wars in Afghanistan, Vietnam, and now in Syria demonstrate all too clearly that relatively small numbers of belligerents can carry out successful military operations against superior forces. But still, firepower is extremely important. A country's projection of power relies in large part upon its military capabilities....

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The new Navy assault ship USS New York, built with World Trade Center steel, passes Statue of Liberty as it arrives Monday, Nov. 2, 2009 in New York
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updated 28 May 2013; published 28 May 2013
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10 Biggest Armies in the World 2013
updated 13 Feb 2014; published 13 Feb 2014
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China Drives Global Defense Spending Increase
updated 18 Jul 2009; published 18 Jul 2009
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World's top 10 military powers (2013)
updated 03 Feb 2012; published 03 Feb 2012
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Chinese Military Power HD
updated 10 Sep 2012; published 10 Sep 2012
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10 Most Expensive Armed Forces In The World
updated 04 Jun 2011; published 04 Jun 2011
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Scandinavian Militaries - Royal Norwegian Armed Forces
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Oil prices on the rebound
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A world free of wartime rape is within our reach
According to a press released published by the UN Information Center here (UNIC), Under-Secretary-General and the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict Zainab Hawa Bangura made the remarks while commenting on...
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Spain's economy to grow, says minister
Tweet Madrid, April 24 (IANS/EFE) Spain's economy will grow at an average of 1.5 percent in 2014-15, authorities said. "Everything indicates that the Spanish economy's recovery has continued in the first quarter of the year," Xinhua quoted Economy...
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Four out of five hospitals short on midwives, NHS figures reveal
Shortages are so acute in some parts of England that hospitals have almost one in five posts in their maternity units unfilled National Audit Office said in November that NHS needed 2,300 more midwives, although the Royal College of Midwives puts the...
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Afghanistan Delays Election Results
VIDEO: Bite of Noor in Dari below and in Central News OCN video folder Afghanistan's election commission has delayed releasing preliminary results from the country's April 5 presidential election to allow more time to investigate possible...
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President Barack Obama, left, and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe shake hands as they arrive to participate in a bilateral meeting at the Akasaka State Guest House in Tokyo, Thursday, April 24, 2014. Facing fresh questions about his commitment to Asia, Obama will seek to convince Japan's leaders Thursday that he can deliver on his security and economic pledges, even as the crisis in Ukraine demands U.S. attention and resources elsewhere.
ON his first of eight days in Asia intended to affirm that the US’s “pivot” back to the region remains on course, President Barack Obama yesterday in Tokyo laid down a clear line on a sensitive strategic issue: the Senkaku/Diaoyu...
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Lance Armstrong, Johan Bruyneel
Lance Armstrong's long-time team manager Johan Bruyneel has been banned from professional sport for 10 years for helping to organise widespread doping by teams led by the disgraced cyclist. The US Anti-Doping Agency announced the verdicts of an...
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