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8 hours ago ago from HDPT Central African Republic
Highlights Appointment of Joseph Binguimalé as the head of the Independent Electoral Commission Nearly 475 Central African refugees in the Democratic Republic of Congo The Deputy Executive Director of United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Hilde Johnson visited CAR “Reducing the impact of soaring food prices in CAR” Background and security Joseph Binguimalé at the head of the CIS The 30-member Independent Electoral Commission ...
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23 hours ago ago from Europa Newswire
Europa Newswire Photo: Luiz Rampelotto 10 December 2009 By Mary Slosson New York - With tensions between rich and poor countries running high at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in the wake of a Danish draft resolution leaking to the press, the willingness of industrialized countries - particularly the United States and the United Kingdom - to give poorer countries a fair deal is being ...
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9 hours ago ago from DrBoyceFinancialCrisis
by Ka Lee Angel Lee For centuries, nations have been working hard on maintaining the status quo. However, due to the strengths and weaknesses of countries as well as the inevitable outside forces of opportunities and threats, some countries rise while others fall. In the recent decades, the emergence of China has been a controversial topic for leaders in the world. The United States, the strongest nation in the world who has long realized ...
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21 hours ago ago from SumanSutra
Obama: Climate change is a security issue COP15 United Nations Climate Change Conference Copenhagen 2009. Posted in Save The Earth
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9 hours ago ago from Archimedes' Hot Tub
This post, are we better off without religion? delves more deeply into Gregory Paul's Successful Societies Scale (and its shoddy presentation) than did mine . (Some of the comments are also interesting.) One thing that surprises me is that Paul ignores or brushes aside other potential correlates. While the U.S. is clearly more racially diverse than the other nations on his scale, with less than 80 percent of the U.S. being white, vs. ...
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ALERT: UN says top United Nations official in Afghanistan has asked to be replaced.
14 hours ago ago from PopEater
KABUL -UN says top United Nations official in Afghanistan has asked to be replaced.
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9 hours ago ago from Newsweek - World
Login Username: Password: SUBSCRIBE Subscribe to Newsweek and save up to 88% Close SPONSORED BY: When Refugees Wonât Go Home By Jason McLure | NEWSWEEK Published Dec 11, 2009 From the magazine issue dated Dec 21, 2009 SPONSORED BY  Email To A Friend Please fill in the ...
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6 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
This Is A Special From Mother Jones, Written By David Corn. At the Copenhagen summit, there isn't a negotiating process to reach a climate pact. There are two. And that's a problem--perhaps big enough to pose a threat to the entire effort to reach an international deal. Climate diplomacy is a complicated business. Here's the backstory. In 1992, at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, representatives from more than 150 nations --including ...
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14 hours ago ago from U.S. News
Top UN official in Afghanistan to resign OSLO (AP) -- Norwegian news agency NTB says the top United Nations official in Afghanistan is stepping down from his post. NTB quotes Norwegian diplomat Kai Eide as saying that he has asked Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to begin looking for a replacement. He says there was "no drama" involved in the decision as his term of office is due to end in a few months. Eide, who heads the U.N. Assistance ...
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16 hours ago ago from TIME.com - Science
SEARCH TIME.COM Full Archive Covers Videos COP15: Climate-Change Conference TIME looks at the agenda for the talks in Copenhagen that began on Dec. 7, 2009 Do Rich Nations Owe Poor Ones a Climate Debt? By BRYAN WALSH Thursday, Dec. 10, 2009 NEXT 1 of 25 View All Smoke rises from burning garbage, adding to a blanket of smog already hovering over the city of ...
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