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TODAY'S HEADLINES:
> Global Cooling: Wanna Bet?
> Murders spark palm oil alert
> UK Lobbies For 'Disastrous' Bangladesh Mine
> Rehabilitating Rachel Carson
> Food Crisis Hits Fallujah
> Food Aid Reaches Thousands in Burma
> Meet Juan Crow
> Mothers Making a Difference
> Global pact on disability rights hailed
> Indian industrial house assures environment-friendly power plant
> Combating malaria in Assam
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OneWorld U.S./UK
GLOBAL COOLING: WANNA BET?
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(13 may 2008) Climate scientists are ready to bet serious money that
recent global cooling predictions are wrong.
From: RealClimate
http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotoarticle/addhit/160521/7263/256749
MURDERS SPARK PALM OIL ALERT
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(13 may 2008) British shoppers have been warned that some products on
sale may contain palm oil grown in Colombia after paramilitaries
murdered or forced poor people off their land amid mounting demand to
use the fruit of palm oil trees.
http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotoarticle/addhit/160517/7263/256749
From: War on Want
http://www.waronwant.org
UK LOBBIES FOR 'DISASTROUS' BANGLADESH MINE
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(13 may 2008) The British government has been actively supporting
plans by a British company to build an open-cast mine in Bangladesh
that would destroy the homes of more than 40,000 people and threaten
the water supplies of a further 100,000.
http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotoarticle/addhit/160516/7263/256749
From: World Development Movement
http://www.wdm.org.uk
REHABILITATING RACHEL CARSON
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(13 may 2008) Why do some people continue to hold Rachel Carson
responsible for millions of malaria deaths, ask John Quiggin and Tim
Lambert.
http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotoarticle/addhit/160513/7263/256749
FOOD CRISIS HITS FALLUJAH
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(13 may 2008) FALLUJAH, May 12 (IPS) - Sharp increases in food prices
have generated a new wave of anti-occupation and anti-U.S. sentiment
in Fallujah.
http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotoarticle/addhit/160511/7263/256749
From: Inter Press Service (IPS)
http://www.ipsnews.net
FOOD AID REACHES THOUSANDS IN BURMA
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(12 may 2008) More than 27,000 people in the Irrawaddy delta region
of Burma -- one of the areas hardest hit by Cyclone Nargis -- have
received food aid and other crucial supplies, a UN food agency
announced yesterday.
http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotoarticle/addhit/160508/7263/256749
From: United Nations
http://www.un.org/
MEET JUAN CROW
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(12 may 2008) Immigrant Latinos in the United States are living under
a "matrix of laws, social customs, economic institutions and symbolic
systems" hauntingly similar to the Jim Crow laws that once
institutionalized race segregation in parts of America, writes
Roberto Lovato.
From: The Nation
http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotoarticle/addhit/160503/7263/256749
MOTHERS MAKING A DIFFERENCE
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(12 may 2008) Fatima Ahmed from Sudan, Yanar Mohammed from Iraq, and
Robitalia Moreno Díaz and María del Rosario Moreno Díaz from Colombia
all link their experience of motherhood to their drive to work for
social justice.
http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotoarticle/addhit/160506/7263/256749
From: MADRE
http://www.madre.org
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OneWorld South Asia
GLOBAL PACT ON DISABILITY RIGHTS HAILED
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(13 may 2008) UN Secretary General has described the adoption of
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities as 'a new
dawn'. Though the Convention does not enlist new rights for the
estimated 650 million disabled persons worldwide, it certainly paves
the way for abolition of discriminatory laws and better
implementation of existing rights.
http://southasia.oneworld.net/link/gotoarticle/addhit/160527/1893/256749
INDIAN INDUSTRIAL HOUSE ASSURES ENVIRONMENT-FRIENDLY POWER PLANT
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(13 may 2008) Allaying the fears of adverse environmental impact,
Tata Power says its proposed 1,000 MW thermal power unit in eastern
India will use the latest technology to keep the air, water and noise
pollution well below the statutory limits. The company also intends
to offer fair price to landowners.
http://southasia.oneworld.net/link/gotoarticle/addhit/160526/1893/256749
COMBATING MALARIA IN ASSAM
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(13 may 2008) It rains on an average 200-250 days in a year in
India's north eastern state of Assam. Home to more than a hundred
species of mosquitoes, a fifth of all malarial deaths in the country
are reported from here. This season, however authorities claim they
are prepared.
http://southasia.oneworld.net/link/gotoarticle/addhit/160522/1893/256749
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