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Ethiopia's Federal High Court has convicted anti-poverty campaigners Daniel Bekele and Netsanet Demissie, the last remaining defendants in a trial in which they were charged along with 129 others.
From:
ActionAid International USA
Image: Daniel Bekele, ActionAid
Capping off days of intensive negotiations, the General Assembly adopted a two-year budget of $4.17 billion for the United Nations, with the United States casting the lone negative vote.
Nepal is to become a republic and Maoists will rejoin the interim government as a result of an agreement signed by leaders of the main political alliance.
From Himalayan Times + OneWorld Guide to Nepal Image: Maoist rebels © Naresh Newar / United Nations' Integrated Regional Information Network
There are new findings regarding a phase of rapid global greenhouse warming that took place 55 million years ago. This period of climate change is regarded as the best fossil analogue to current and future greenhouse warming.
From: Science Daily Image: During the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum, temperatures in the Arctic reached 24 degrees Celsius
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