Brazil: Read to get out of jail earlier
Posted by: syedhasnainshah
Brasília :: Brazil | updated 2012-07-27 03:32:43 -0700 | education-news
BRASILIA: Brazil will offer inmates in its crowded federal penitentiary system a novel way to shorten their sentences: four days less for every book they read.ReadMore....
Giant tortoise 'Lonesome George' dies at the age of 100
Posted by: R. Francis Rubio
Piñas :: Ecuador | updated 2012-09-20 15:05:52 -0700 | obituaries-news
Galapagos tortoise--Lonesome George died unexpectedly Sunday morning at the age of 100. Believed to be the last of his kind, George reportedly died of unknown causes at his home in Ecuador's Galapagos Islands. Discovered in 1972, Lonesome George has become...
Venezuelan president assures Iran of complete support against US, Israel
Posted by: StephenManual
Caracas :: Venezuela | updated 2012-07-27 12:59:50 -0700 | disasters-news
Tensions between Iran and world powers have escalated since the failure of the two-day Moscow dialogue earlier this month. Iran categorically denied all demands of the world powers and demanded relief in sanctions during the dialogue. Though a new round...
Chile also shaken today by 5.8 degrees earthquake.
Posted by: IQBALMEMON468
Santiago :: Chile | updated 2012-07-27 13:00:12 -0700 | disasters-news
An earthquake of 5.8 on the Richter scale rocked the Chilean region of Antofagasta, north of the country, causing no casualties or damage, officials said. The quake hit at 6:25 am local time this Sunday and its epicenter was 118...
(Video) Manifestations in Asunción after the deprivation of the President Fernando Lugo
Posted by: CATALINA
Asunción :: Paraguay | updated 2012-09-13 11:43:43 -0700 | political-news
(Video) RT shows us as people's thousands they flooded the streets of Asuncion, Paraguay, on Friday night, after the Senate of that country voted to deprive to the President Fernando Lugo. The police riot and military policemen to horse were...
Greenwashing+20 or RIO+20
Posted by: CATALINA
Brasília :: Brazil | updated 2012-07-27 22:38:27 -0700 | political-news
Secretary-general Ban Ki-moon, very optimistic him, but people like Greenpeace, they are not it so much. Ban urges the world leaders to commitments in firm from this moment, but it is already known: TEXT WITHOUT CONTEXT IS PURE PRETEXT. In...
Hillary Clinton Highlights Brazilian Leadership at Rio +20.
Posted by: IQBALMEMON468
Rio de Janeiro :: Brazil | updated 2012-07-27 22:38:30 -0700 | political-news
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton praised today Brazil''s leadership in negotiating the outcome document of the Rio +20 Summit and said the final text represents a major breakthrough. In her speech at the last session of the UN Conference on...
Rio+20: It's a sell out of people, the planet, says FoEI
Posted by: AkanimoReports
Rio de Janeiro :: Brazil | updated 2012-07-27 22:38:30 -0700 | disasters-news
FRIENDS of the Earth International, FoEI, a global federation of environmental rights advocacy organizations, on Saturday, strongly condemned world leaders for allegedly selling out humanity and the planet in their Rio+20 declaration. FoEI is claiming that the Rio+20 declaration falls...
Chavez and Ahmadinejad called the U.S. "democracy with guns".
Posted by: IQBALMEMON468
Caracas :: Venezuela | updated 2012-07-27 22:38:32 -0700 | political-news
The presidents of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez , and Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad , met today in Caracas to strengthen the "strategic partnership" between their countries and took the opportunity to share their criticism against the United States, which pointed to export...
RIO+20 OKAYS CORPORATE POLLUTION, SAYS FoEI
Posted by: AkanimoReports
Rio de Janeiro :: Brazil | updated 2012-07-27 22:39:12 -0700 | causes-news
A GLOBAL federation of environmental rights advocacy organizations, Friends of the Earth International (FoEI) has said that the Ri+20 declaration encourages corporate pollution. The global body told AkanimoReports on Friday that the deal on the table at the Rio+20 Summit...
RIO+20: INDIGENOUS PEOPLE UNVEIL OWN SOLUTIONS
Posted by: AkanimoReports
Rio de Janeiro :: Brazil | updated 2012-07-26 17:14:23 -0700 | causes-news
INDIGENOUS people from all over the world have come together at the Rio+20 global summit to put forward their own solutions for sustainable development. This is coming as government representatives start formal negotiations in Brazil to seek agreements on '‘green...
RIO+20: 400 GROUPS BATTLE TO RECLAIM UN FROM CORPORATE HIJACK
Posted by: AkanimoReports
Rio de Janeiro :: Brazil | updated 2012-07-26 17:14:28 -0700 | disasters-news
OVER 400 civil society organizations around the world are currently locked in a fight-to-finish to reclaim the United Nations (UN) from what they described as ''corporate hijack'' The more than 400 groups which represent millions of people globally, have already...
WikiLeaks Founder refugees in Ecuador.
Posted by: lethibichlan
Tena :: Ecuador | updated 2012-07-27 13:07:34 -0700 | political-news
To avoid being extradited to Sweden, founder Julian Assange WikiLeaks has run 19.6 hours at the Embassy of Ecuador in the UK to apply for political asylum. Ecuador Embassy later confirmed that they are exploring the views of the United...
PCFS expose corporate capture of African, Asian agriculture
Posted by: GerryAlbert
Rio de Janeiro :: Brazil | updated 2012-11-02 15:22:44 -0700 | political-news
PCFS expose corporate capture of agriculture in Africa and Asia; calls for rejection of green economy agenda in the Rio+20 RIO DE JANEIRO, June 16, 2012. The People’s Coalition on Food Sovereignty spoke at the Plenary 3 on Water, Food...
Breathtaking footage of stuntman breaking four world records
Posted by: Sabah Kashf
Florida :: Colombia | updated 2012-07-26 17:15:08 -0700 | entertainment-news
19 June 2012 The fearless stuntman Jhonathan Florez, 29, made four Guinness world records on 20 April 2012 for jumping in wing suit from highest possible altitude in Columbia. The breathtaking YouTube video shows wingman leaping from 37,265ft and reaching...
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