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Friday, 19 September 2014

Australia puts armed police in parliament after more threats

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U.N. Security Council declares Ebola threat to peace and security Yahoo Daily News

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council on Thursday declared the Ebola outbreak in...

Global Population Predicted to Reach Nearly 11 Billion by 2100 Voa News

Jessica Berman A new study says the global population is growing faster than expected and projects the number of people globally will rise to just under 11 billion people by 2100. The study, which is an extension of a 2013 United Nations report, says growth is unlikely to stabilize this century....

Whaling Summit Votes to Uphold Ban on Japan Whale Hunt Voa News

Henry Ridgwell LONDON— The International Whaling Commission has voted to uphold a court ruling banning Japan from hunting whales in the Antarctic Ocean. Conservationists hailed the ruling as a victory, but Tokyo says it will submit revised plans for a whale hunt in 2015. Commercial...

Vietnam Rejects Police Brutality Report by Human Rights Group Voa News

VOA News Vietnam has countered a human rights report that accuses the country of increasing cases of police brutality. In a statement posted to the foreign ministry website Thursday, spokeswoman Tran Thi Bich Van says Vietnam has a "firm commitment" against all forms of torture or cruel...

No Place to Hide for Africa's Pangolins Amid China Buying Spree Voa News

Reuters DAKAR/LIBREVILLE — Alongside dirt roads twisting through the dense tropical forests of Gabon, the scaly bodies of lifeless long-snouted pangolins dangle from sticks stuck in the ground by hunters. The pangolin, a mammal that looks like an anteater but has the tough scales of a crocodile, has...

Yellen: Many American Families Are 'Extraordinarily Vulnerable' Voa News

VOA News The head of the U.S. central bank says a "large share" of American families are "extraordinarily vulnerable" because they lack the savings or other assets needed to weather...

Ebola Awareness Campaign Begins Voa News

Joe DeCapua Sierra Leone launched a new campaign Thursday to try to contain the spread of the ebola virus. Initial reports -- describing the effort as a nationwide lockdown -- were wrong. Instead, the campaign is officially called the House-to-House Ebola Talk. Listen to De Capua interview on Ebola...

BBC reporters 'badly beaten' in Russia The Times of India

MOSCOW: A team of BBC journalists was beaten and their camera smashed in southern Russia, where they were looking into reports of Russian soldiers killed while on secret deployments near Ukraine, the broadcaster said on Thursday. The three reporters were working in the southern city of Astrakhan...