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The Hill - 4 minutes ago
A senior Obama administration official lamented Monday that Capitol Hill has been dominated by the healthcare debate. Read more...
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UPI - Mon Nov 23, 3:32 am ET
By United Press International UPI Almanac for Monday, Nov. 23, 2009.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Sun Nov 22, 10:37 am ET
The Sri Lankan government has failed to make adequate welfare provision for the 136,000 Tamil civilians it plans to release from internment camps, rights activists and opposition parties said Sunday.
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Los Angeles Times - Mon Nov 23, 3:14 am ET
With the African island nation left paralyzed and lawless after a coup, loggers have been clearing forests, putting many rare species of lemurs and other animals at further risk. She was the spy who was undone by a furry little creature with huge, hypnotic eyes.
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Bloomberg - Mon Nov 23, 2:55 am ET
Nov. 23 (Bloomberg) -- The International Energy Agency is “cautiously optimistic” about the climate-change summit next month in Copenhagen, where almost 200 nations are working to replace or extend the Kyoto Protocol to slow carbon emissions.
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Bloomberg - Mon Nov 23, 2:52 am ET
Nov. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Crude oil rose from a one-week low on speculation demand will increase as the global economy recovers from its worst recession since World War II.
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Worldwide Faith News - Fri Nov 20, 12:34 pm ET
>Baha'i World News Service > http://news.bahai.org >For more information, contact: news@bahai.orgmailto:news@bahai.org UN resolution on Iran sends a powerful message on human rights UNITED NATIONS, 20 November (BWNS) - The approval today of a strongly worde d resolution on human rights in Iran sends a powerful signal to the Iranian government ...
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WashingtonTV - Fri Nov 20, 1:22 pm ET
Washington, 20 November (WashingtonTV)—The United Nations on Friday marked the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which it says has transformed the way children are treated.
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Bloomberg - Fri Nov 20, 12:45 pm ET
Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- The Iranian government’s treatment of protesters following the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad , including torture and arbitrary imprisonment, was censured today by the United Nations General Assembly.
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Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune - 17 minutes ago
Greenhouse gases in the Earth's atmosphere reached record highs in 2008, with carbon dioxide levels increasing faster than previously, the U.N. weather agency said Monday.
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Seattle Times - 20 minutes ago
Greenhouse gases in the Earth's atmosphere reached record highs in 2008, with carbon dioxide levels increasing faster than previously, the U.N. weather agency said Monday.
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Newsday - Sun Nov 22, 7:08 am ET
Denmark: 65 world leaders _ and counting _ to attend UN climate summit in Copenhagen
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Boston Globe - Sun Nov 22, 8:33 am ET
Hundreds of people jammed into a Monrovia church to mourn a Liberian United Nations worker killed in an October attack by Taliban gunmen in Afghanistan's capital.
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Sun-Sentinel - Sun Nov 22, 8:19 am ET
MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — Hundreds of people jammed into a Monrovia church to mourn a Liberian United Nations worker killed in an October attack by Taliban gunmen in Afghanistan's capital.
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Bloomberg - Sun Nov 22, 10:25 am ET
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and French President Nicolas Sarkozy will also go to the summit, Michael Helbo , a spokesman for Danish Prime Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen , said today by phone. More leaders will confirm their attendance, Helbo said.
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WTOL 11 Toledo - Sun Nov 22, 8:00 am ET
Hundreds of people jammed into a Monrovia church to mourn a Liberian United Nations worker killed in an October attack by Taliban gunmen in Afghanistan's capital.
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Park Hills Daily Journal - Mon Nov 23, 2:10 am ET
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Countries most vulnerable to climate change said Friday they were incensed that rich nations were rethinking the timetable for concluding a global treaty that would hold them to legally binding targets for cutting emissions.
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FOX 11 Tucson - Sun Nov 22, 8:18 am ET
MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — Hundreds of people jammed into a Monrovia church to mourn a Liberian United Nations worker killed in an October attack by Taliban gunmen in Afghanistan's capital.
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Bloomberg - Fri Nov 20, 8:11 pm ET
Nov. 21 (Bloomberg) -- A UN human rights resolution against North Korea adopted this week is “nothing but a trite political plot,” the communist nation’s state-run media said yesterday, citing a foreign ministry spokesman it didn’t identify.
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New York Times - 2 hours 7 minutes ago
Brazil’s decision to host Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, was viewed as a signal of the country’s ambitions to become a bigger player in global diplomacy.