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Greenhouse gas fear over increased levels of meat eating
Full Article BBC News
01 Sep 2014

Global consumption of meat needs to fall - to ensure future demand for food can be met and to help protect the environment - a study says. Research from Cambridge and Aberdeen universities estimates greenhouse gases from food production will go up 80% if meat and dairy consumption continues to rise at its current rate. That will make it harder to...

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File - Palestinian men handing out meat on the first day of Eid al-Adha in the Rafah refugee camp.
photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb

updated 09 Aug 2013; published 09 Aug 2013
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Cultured Beef: How is it made? Cultured Beef Process
updated 07 Jul 2014; published 07 Jul 2014
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Persuasive speech of Fact-Meat Consumption
updated 24 Jun 2014; published 24 Jun 2014
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Meat Production and the Environment by Taylor Cody
updated 24 Apr 2013; published 24 Apr 2013
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The Story of Grassfed Beef
updated 17 Apr 2014; published 17 Apr 2014
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Meat Birds Feasting on Wheat Grass
updated 29 Jul 2014; published 29 Jul 2014
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Giving Up Beef Can Do More To Save Planet Than Giving Up Cars
Israel to seize almost 1,000 acres of land in West Bank
Full Article The Irish Times
01 Sep 2014

Israel says it is appropriating a large swath of land in the occupied West Bank, near the area where three Jewish boys were killed in June by Palestinians affiliated with Hamas – an event that helped trigger the 50-day war in the Gaza Strip. Some 400 hectares (990 acres) in the Gush Etzion settlement bloc near Bethlehem was declared state land by...

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File - For decades Israel has pursued a policy of forced eviction and demolition of homes of Palestinians living under occupation in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb

updated 31 Aug 2014; published 31 Aug 2014
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Israel announces it will seize 400 acres in West Bank
updated 31 Aug 2014; published 31 Aug 2014
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Israel announces it will seize 400 acres in West Bank
updated 01 Sep 2014; published 01 Sep 2014
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Israel Seizes 1,000 Acres Of Land In West Bank
updated 27 May 2013; published 27 May 2013
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Israeli bulldozing Palestinian land for a settler road
updated 18 Feb 2014; published 18 Feb 2014
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Israeli soldiers force Palestinian farmers to leave their land at gun point
updated 31 Aug 2014; published 31 Aug 2014
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Israel plans to expropriate 400 hectares of West Bank.
EU leaders try to defuse Ukraine crisis as fears over war grow
Full Article The Observer
31 Aug 2014

Polish prime minister Donald Tusk, who was made new president of the European council, and Italian foreign minister Federica Mogherini, the EU's new foreign policy chief, after their nomination at the Brussels summit. Photograph: Yves Logghe/AP European leaders gathered in Brussels on Saturday night to wrestle with how to get a failing policy on...

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British Prime Minister David Cameron, left, speaks with European Commission President elect Jean-Claude Juncker during a round table meeting at an EU summit in Brussels, Saturday, Aug. 30, 2014.
photo: AP / Yves Logghe

updated 05 Mar 2014; published 05 Mar 2014
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Russia-Ukraine Standoff Prompts Energy Fears in Europe
updated 22 Mar 2014; published 22 Mar 2014
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EU leader says Europe faces "risk of armed conflict" (Second Coming Watch Update #497)
updated 20 Apr 2014; published 20 Apr 2014
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Farage on Ukraine crisis: EU foreign policy 'danger to peace'
updated 06 Apr 2014; published 06 Apr 2014
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Russia Facing More Pressure From European Leaders
updated 26 Aug 2014; published 26 Aug 2014
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Escalation of EU-Russia sanctions sparks fears for business on both sides
updated 01 Sep 2014; published 01 Sep 2014
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Ukraine Warns Of Return To 'Full Scale War' Over Crisis with Russia | BREAKING NEWS - 02 SEPT 2014
Blackwater mercenaries face justice for bloodbath in Baghdad that caused 14 civilian deaths
Full Article The Independent
31 Aug 2014

It has been seven years since guards with the worldwide security firm Blackwater turned Baghdad's Nisour Square into a shooting gallery, killing 14 local civilians "without cause", sparking fury around the globe and plunging the United States into a spasm of soul-searching over what it had wrought in Iraq. This week as the world is once again...

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In this Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2008, file photo, the family of Ibrahim Abid, who was killed when guards employed by security company Blackwater opened fire at Nisoor Square in 2007, visits his grave in Baghdad, Iraq.
photo: AP

updated 02 Jul 2013; published 02 Jul 2013
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Jeremy Scahill on the Blackwater Security Scandal (2007)
updated 29 Nov 2010; published 29 Nov 2010
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Blackwater Psycho killers
updated 09 Dec 2008; published 09 Dec 2008
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Blackwater and the Nisour Square Shootings - Steve Fainaru
updated 19 Jan 2014; published 19 Jan 2014
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Four former Blackwater guards charged in 2007 Iraq massacre
updated 06 Dec 2012; published 06 Dec 2012
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US ARMY are in bed with Blackwater MERCENARIES to SPEED up end of AFGHANISTAN WAR!
updated 12 May 2013; published 12 May 2013
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Jeremy Scahill on the Iraq Ban of Blackwater: Security & Risk Management (2007)
Somalia famine: 'We only have days to live'
Full Article Al Jazeera
30 Aug 2014

President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has no doubt about who is to blame for the suffering from the latest drought to hit the Horn of Africa country. "Al-Shabab have restricted the movement of goods and people so people are isolated and cannot receive aid or even the normal trade," President Mohamud told Al Jazeera in an exclusive interview. "The routes...

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File - Somali women sell tea on the side of the road in Baidoa, while Ethiopian soldiers as part of the African Union Mission in Somalia, conduct a night patrol through the city on June 22, 2014.
photo: UN / Tobin Jones

updated 30 Aug 2014; published 30 Aug 2014
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Somalia famine -We only have days to live. Please help us - Mohamed Adow Reports From S/Somalia
updated 23 Aug 2014; published 23 Aug 2014
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Somalia drought triggers famine fears
updated 04 May 2013; published 04 May 2013
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Somalia Famine Killed Close To 260,000 People - Report Says
updated 14 May 2013; published 14 May 2013
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SOMALIA THE REAL CAUSES OF FAMINE By Junaikjunaidk
updated 20 Jul 2011; published 20 Jul 2011
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Famine in Somalia -- You Can Help
updated 23 Aug 2011; published 23 Aug 2011
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KSA2 News - Saudi Arabia's contribution to Somalia's famine crisis

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The Observer
Reasonable suspicion is based on a circular logic – people can be watchlisted if they are suspected of being suspected terrorists – that is ultimately backwards, and must be...
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WorldNews.com
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling Since Americans love their pets and animals, lavishing upon them last year a record $56 billion (1), maybe they will at least make a...
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The Inquisitr
Now, with teenagers longing to separate themselves from the pack and find ways to express their individuality, Abercrombie & Fitch has been seeing a drop in sales. In fact,...

A Pakistani police officer stands guard on a shipping container while supporters of Pakistani Sunni Muslim cleric Tahir-ul-Qadri participate in an anti-government rally in Islamabad, Pakistan on Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2013. Thousands of anti-government protesters heeding the call of the fiery cleric rallied in the streets of the Pakistani capital Tuesday for a second day despite early morning clashes with police who fired off shots and tear gas.
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Anti-government protesters armed with slingshots and hammers clashed repeatedly with police Sunday in the Pakistani capital, and the powerful military cautioned the prime minister against further use of force in the crisis that has triggered the...
photo: AP / Anjum Naveed
File - A McDonald's fast-food restaurant.
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The arrival of McDonald's symbolised the end of the Cold War for many Muscovites. But it now faces being frozen out of Russia after the fast-food firm revealed more than 100 of its restaurants are in danger of being closed by the government. The...
photo: WN / Rubielyn Bunag
File - British Member of Parliament George Galloway gives an interview to a television station, as anti-war protesters demonstrate outside the Iraq Inquiry, as former British Prime Minster Tony Blair gives evidence, London , Friday, Jan. 29, 2010.
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George Galloway has left hospital after being treated for injuries he suffered in a street attack in London. The Respect MP was posing for pictures in Notting Hill Gate, west London, when he was assaulted on Friday night. The MP...
photo: AP / Alastair Grant
Ah-Meng the female Sumatran Orangutan, Singapore Zoo's most famous animal celibrity photographed on her regular morning walks in the zoo.Sadly she expired a few months later on 8-2-2008 living to the ripe old age of 48
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Mathematical models offer new insights into animal vocal sequences, but evolution of language remains a mystery Orangutans were one of seven species whose calls were compared with human language. Photograph: Dlillc/Corbis From ultrasonic bat chirps...
photo: Public Domain / Rudolph.A.furtado
International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde speaks at the IMF in Washington, Wednesday, July 2, 2014.
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 (Xinhua) -- The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Friday voiced support for Managing Director Christine Lagarde as she was under investigation of negligence. "As we...
photo: AP / Susan Walsh
President Barack Obama pauses as he speaks at the Paramount Theatre in Austin, Texas, Thursday, July 10, 2014, about the economy. Austin is the final leg in his three city trip before returning to Washington.
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US president Barack Obama has said that he had not yet developed a strategy to combat Islamic State militants, months after the jihadist army, formerly known as Isis, erased the border between Iraq and Syria and more than a week after it beheaded an...
photo: AP / Jack Plunkett
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, center, waves as he arrives for an EU summit in Brussels, Saturday, Aug. 30, 2014. EU leaders, in a one day summit, are set to decide who will get the prestigious job as the 28-nation bloc's foreign policy chief for the next five years. They will also discuss the current situation in Ukraine.
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The behind-the-scenes campaign for top European Union positions burst into the open as Polish prime minister Donald Tusk staked a claim to the post of EU president. Tusk (57) is “definitely considering” the job...
photo: AP / Virginia Mayo