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Fiji marks World Biodiversity Day
Suva :: Fiji Islands | 4 hours ago
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The celebration, which was hosted by the Department of Environment, also marked the launch of the department's National Environment Celebrations campaign. Speaking at the special double occasion was Environment Minister Colonel Samuela Saumatua who
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Ignore biodiversity management at your own peril
New York City :: NY :: USA | 5 hours ago
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The United Nations designated May 22 as the International Day for Biological Diversity, to increase understanding and awareness of biodiversity issues...Water and biodiversity are sources of life and livelihood or options for reducing poverty and
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Swiss leader looks to Beijing
Zurich :: Switzerland | 6 hours ago
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Zurich, Switzerland ( China Daily) A prosperous, stable and peaceful China is important to Switzerland and the world, according to President of the Swiss Confederation Ueli Maurer. His comments come ahead of official visits by Premier Li Keqiang to
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Depreciating yen attracts record visitors to Japan
Fukushima :: Japan | 6 hours ago
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A record 923,000 foreigners traveled to Japan in April, up 18.1 percent from a year earlier, taking advantage of a weaker yen and an increase in chartered flights, a government agency said Wednesday. The previous monthly high was 879,000 in July 2010,
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Lens Blog: Angelos Tzortzinis's Photos of Growing Desperation in Greece
Gaza :: Palestine | 7 hours ago
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Recent Posts May 22 In Greece, the perils of a drawn-out debt crisis are imprinted on its younger population whose unemployment numbers are soaring who turn to selling their bodies for money and to a dangerous, cheap new street drug for escape...May
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Burma - In Burma telecoms risk complicity in surveillance censorship
Pyinmana :: Myanmar | 7 hours ago
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Wednesday 22nd May, 2013 International telecommunications companies risk being linked to human rights abuses if they enter the Burmese market before adequate protections are in place, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released on May 19 2013.
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NZ still the kid in intelligence family
Auckland :: New Zealand | 7 hours ago
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When it comes to the Five Eyes intelligence sharing grouping, it's like a family with the United States and Britain as parents, and New Zealand being the 5-year old that others were made to play with. That's how Chief of Defence Force Lieutenant
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Climate 'spurred human innovation'
Cape Town :: South Africa | 7 hours ago
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Climate change 'spurred modern human behaviour' Sites in southern Africa preserve a rich record of early human culture Abrupt climate change in Africa helped trigger technological and cultural advances in early modern humans, according to new
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Overcoming Obstacles: What is your 'Panama Canal'?
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 9 hours ago
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What one question can you ask 800 entrepreneurs from 30 countries at an Entrepreneurs Organization 's global leadership conference in Panama?...Meaning, if you could cut through one big obstacle in your business that would allow you to grow
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Glaciers Are Melting Slowly but Surely
Nuuk :: Greenland | 10 hours ago
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what about all the other stuff? What kind of difference does the melting of glaciers in Scandinavia, or Alaska, or the Himalayas make to the ocean levels? Alex Gardner of Clark University, Massachusetts, and 15 colleagues from the US, Canada and
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