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Ransom claim in Ingrid Betancourt release | World news | guardian.co.uk
Posted by okami from Guardian UK
Ingrid Betancourt arrived in France today after being held captive for six years in the Colombian jungle, amid claims that a ransom was paid to free her.
The Colombian government said that she was freed in an audacious operation after the military tricked Farc into handing the French-Colombian politician over without a shot being fired.
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Mexico Cracks Down on Cubans
Posted by Shemuses from
For the first time, Mexican immigration authorities have launched raids on safe houses where Cubans await transportation to the U.S. border. In the first such raid, reported widely throughout Mexico on July 2, 20 Cubans were arrested in Cancun. Once Cubans present themselves to U.S. officials on the border, they are automatically granted asylum in the United States. Mexicans are angered at the disparate U.S. laws that give Cubans permanent residency while Mexicans attempting to enter the United States are deported. Mexico's President Felipe Calderon has also ordered Mexico's Navy to increase patrols in the Yucatan Channel, the body of water that separates Cuba and Cancun.
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Beijing Turns Green Before the Olympics
Posted by Shemuses from
From shopping to driving to eating, Beijing residents are rearranging their lives to help save the environment just in time for the Olympics Games this August.
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Alleviate world hunger produce more clean carbon dioxide By Dirck T. Hartmann
Posted by HansGruen from
What is your carbon footprint? That is the wrong question to ask. A more meaningful question is--How much carbon dioxide does it take to grow the wheat required to produce a loaf of bread? Or--How much carbon dioxide does it take to grow the corn for the chicken feed required to produce a dozen eggs?
Far from being a pollutant, man along with every animal on land, fish in the sea, and bird in the air is totally dependent on atmospheric carbon dioxide for his food supply. ...
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4 Burma - Post Cyclone Chronicle
Posted by bugaloo from
As Irrawaddy went to report on Wednesday, June 11th 2008, despite the announcement of a major multilateral operation to determine the scope of cyclone Nargis on Burma, 18 cyclone victims (women and children) were arrested following their call for help at the UN's office in Rangoon. They walked there to complain about not receiving any government assistance.
On May 23rd the UN' Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, met General Than Shwe to secure free access ....
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Deadly Jerusalem bulldozer attack
Posted by Damianmann from BBC News
A Palestinian man has driven a bulldozer into a bus and several cars in Jerusalem, killing three people, before being shot dead.
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McCain Backer's Firm Pleaded Guilty To Funding Terrorist Group In
Posted by theangryindian from Angryindian.blogspot
The co-host of a recent top-dollar fundraiser for Sen. John McCain oversaw the payment of roughly $1.7 million to a Colombian paramilitary group that is today designated a terrorist organization by the United States.
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Real change happens off-line
Posted by Jeff from Christian Science Monitor
Millennials need to be activists face to face.
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Canada: Our foreign policy myth
Posted by Shemuses from Globe and Mail
As Canada turns 141 years old tomorrow, few beliefs and values are held more strongly in common by Canadians than their thoughts of their country on the international stage. They have been seduced by mythology. The reality of Canada's foreign policy - the country's official face to the world - for the most part is starkly different from the altruistic image of Canada with which its citizens are in love.
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Heroism of Conflict Survivors Inspires New Program in Central Africa
Posted by ap101 from
Ricky Richard was fourteen when he was abducted from his home in Uganda and drafted into the Lord's Resistance Army, a violent rebel militia that has forced almost two million Ugandans from their homes.
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Afghan civilian deaths up 60 per cent
Posted by Jeff from Globe and Mail
The number of civilians killed in fighting between insurgents and security forces in Afghanistan has soared by two-thirds in the first half of this year, to almost 700 people, a senior UN official said Sunday. The figures are a grim reminder of how the nearly seven-year war has failed to stabilize the country and suggest that ordinary civilians are bearing a heavy toll, particularly from stepped-up militant attacks.
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Preparing the Battlefield
Posted by Jon from New Yorker
Late last year, Congress agreed to a request from President Bush to fund a major escalation of covert operations against Iran, according to current and former military, intelligence, and congressional sources. These operations, for which the President sought up to four hundred million dollars, were described in a Presidential Finding signed by Bush, and are designed to destabilize the country's religious leadership.
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