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In this photo taken Friday, July 8, 2011, smoke bellows from a chimney stack at BlueScope Steel's steelworks at Port Kembla, south of Sydney, Australia. Australia will force its 500 worst polluters to pay 23 Australian dollars ($25) for every ton of carbon dioxide they emit, with the government promising to compensate households hit with higher power bills under a plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions unveiled Sunday, July 10, 2011. Australia kills off carbon tax
Senate makes good prime minister's ‘pledge in blood’ to ‘axe the tax’, with nation unlikely to meet 5% emissions reduction target | Business as usual: the Australian government's Direct Action... (photo: AP / Rob Griffith) The Guardian
Carbon Emission   Carbon Tax - Australia   Greenhouse Gases   Photos   Wikipedia: Carbon pricing in Australia  
President Barack Obama gestures as he speaks at Rev. Al Sharpton's National Action Network's conference, Friday, April 11, 2014, in New York. US and EU step up Russia sanctions
The US and the European Union have again stepped up sanctions against Russia over the Ukraine crisis. | President Barack Obama announced new restrictions on a handful of companies including Rosneft - ... (photo: AP / Carolyn Kaster) Belfast Telegraph
Crimea Crisis   Photos   Sanctions on Russia   Ukraine Crisis   Wikipedia: 2014 Ukrainian crisis  
In this Friday, July 11, 2014 photo, people are rafted to the Mexican shore, across the Suchiate river that separates Tecun Uman, Guatemala and Ciudad Hidalgo, Mexico, on a makeshift raft made from inner tubes of trucks attached to wooden boards on their way to the U.S. U.S.'s 'Rutterless' Immigration and Border Policies
Article by Wn.com Correspondent Dallas Darling | "Borders are scratched across the hearts of men, by strangers with a calm, judicial pen, and when the borders bleed we watch with dread the lines of in... (photo: AP / Eduardo Verdugo) WorldNews.com
Cultural Imperialism   Human Rights   Photos   US Immigration   Wikipedia: Illegal immigration to the United States  
Children from Hownslow Manor school take part in an assembly based on the upcoming World Aids Day, in London Tuesday Nov. 29, 2005. World Aids Day takes place on Dec. 1, with recent World Health Organisation figures showing that some 40 million people are now infected with the HIV virus. Teaching awareness in schools could be one of the many ways of trying to reduce the number of future infections, which in Britain rose again in 2004. The number of Children under the age of 15 in Britain who are affected is 1650 New HIV/Aids cases dropping, says UN
The United Nations has said new HIV infections and deaths from Aids were decreasing, making it possible to control the epidemic by 2030 and eventually end it ‘‘in every region, in every co... (photo: AP Photo / Alastair Grant) Stuff
HIV Virus   Health Care   Photos   UNAIDS   Wikipedia: HIV/AIDS  
In this photo taken on Sunday, April 20, 2014 and released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad, center, speaks with Syrian citizens during his visit to Ain al-Tineh village, near Damascus, Syria. Assad visited on Sunday a historic Christian village his forces recently captured from rebels, state media said, as the country's Greek Orthodox Patriarch vowed that Christians in the war-ravaged country "will not submit and yield" to extremists. The rebels, including fighters from the al-Qaida-affiliated Nusra Front, took Maaloula several times late last year. Syria's Assad to be sworn in, set out plans for new term
BEIRUT (Reuters) - President Bashar al-Assad will be sworn in and set out his plans for a new seven-year term on Wednesday, state media reported, after his victory in an election that affirmed his gri... (photo: AP / SANA) Baltimore Sun
Bashar al-Assad   Photos   Politics   Syria   Wikipedia: Bashar al-Assad  
In this frame grab provided by the Russian Ministry for Emergency Situations shows frame grab from a video showing rescue teams working inside the tunnel where several cars of the wrecked train look almost coiled, occupying the entire space of the tunnel of Moscow subway in Moscow, Russia, on Tuesday, July 15, 2014. Two Moscow metro workers arrested after disaster
Russian investigators have announced the arrest of two Moscow metro workers for safety breaches after a train derailed, killing 21 people. | The railway foreman and his assistant are suspected of usin... (photo: AP / Russian Emergency Situation Ministry) BBC News
Moscow Metro   Photos   Rail Safety   Train Accident   Wikipedia: 2014 Moscow Metro derailment  
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