This week marks the 30th anniversary of the Refugee Act of 1980, a landmark piece of legislation that changed the U.S. approach to refugee protection…

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Who do you think might just have been granted the right to display the official logo of the United Nations International Year of Biodiversity ‘ A conservation body, perhaps. Or a new brand of organic food’

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It’s a bit difficult to give a clear and precise response to this question because there are limited studies in the region related to climate. There is a general view… that the continent will be affected because of the level of poverty of the people – that is the social element.

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Watch as Sydney Opera House turns green as part of the city’s St Patrick’s Day celebrations.

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By Elisa Massimino, President and CEO This week marks the 30th anniversary of the Refugee Act of 1980, a landmark piece of legislation that changed…

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Greenpeace protesters claim palm oil production is destroying the rainforest.

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What does globalisation mean to you’ That was the question posed to the global community of young activists on Debatewise ’s Global Youth Panel.

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Governments from 120 nations are gathered in Doha, Qatar this week to discuss the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES). High up…

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Americans are less concerned about environmental issues than they’ve been in 20 years or more, a new poll from Gallup shows.

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Nairobi — Margaret Atieno, a 38-year-old mother of six, says she wanted to avoid her last pregnancy.

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Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) managing director, recently visited Kenya as part of his African tour.

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Iran’s hard-line government says the country’s largest pro-reform political party has been banned as part of the crackdown on the opposition.

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Just a few months into 2010, and Mother Nature has delivered a slew of costly and deadly natural disasters. From the catastrophic Haiti and Chilean earthquakes to the U.S. blizzard that descended on Washington, D.C., last month, which was mostly just inconvenient by comparison, 2010 is already above average in terms of natural-disaster casualties.

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Dave Bailey, Computing , Monday 15 March 2010 at 12:17:00 A look at the important decisions and necessary steps required before a mainframe migration Vendors offering hardware replacement systems for business-critical mainframe platforms are always crowing about the cost of application software maintenance for these mammoth systems. Yet mainframes are still used by most high street banks to …

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More than 50 percent of drugs sold in drugstores in Nigeria in the 1990s were counterfeit, the World Bank said in a report. In its Africa Development Indicators 2010 report, released at the weekend, the bank said “Quite corruption” is undermining development in Africa, including Nigeria.

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The Vietnamese triumph in 1954 defeated France, but did not reunite Vietnam. The American phase of the war in Vietnam cost at least three million Vietnamese lives and nearly 60,000 American lives.

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A troubled Wandsworth teenager who vowed to turn his life around has travelled to India to teach Tibetan refugee children. Read more >

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Cape Town — If the World Bank chose not to approve the $3.75-billion loan to help build two new power stations, we can “essentially say goodbye to our country”, said Minister of Public Enterprises Barbara Hogan in Pretoria today.

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The head of Greenpeace has said that it is justifiable to break the law in order to alert people to the threat of climate change.

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The Victorian Bar is forming a panel of expert barristers to specialise in cases involving climate change.

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A troubled Wandsworth teenager who vowed to turn his life around has travelled to India to teach Tibetan refugee children. Read more >

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These breathtaking photographs capture the natural majesty of enormous icebergs sculpted into architectural forms by the wind and rain of Antarctica.

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What’s Your Reaction’ A 7.0 Indonesia earthquake struck early Sunday morning, not long after a separate Indonesia earthquake on Saturday.

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Torture survivors seeking sanctuary in Britain are being wrongly held in government detention centres, despite independent medical evidence supporting claims of brutal violence against them in their home countries.

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TWO government advertisements that use nursery rhymes to warn people of the dangers of climate change have been banned by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) for exaggerating the potential harm.

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Some aid projects have focused on restoring the country’s forests, but few have tried to fix the generations of harm that has been done to Haiti’s coral, its mangroves, its beaches and, most of all, its fish.

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Some days the wind rages so hard it seems to bend the steel window frames. Other days are so still that you can hear the rusty squeak of playground swings from the 29th floor.

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Cape Town — If the World Bank chose not to approve the $3.75-billion loan to help build two new power stations, we can “essentially say goodbye to our country”, said Minister of Public Enterprises Barbara Hogan in Pretoria today.

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Why are we asking this now’ It is 13 years since Tony Blair said he did not want children brought up in a country “where the only way pensioners can get long-term care is by selling their home”.

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Ministers are to review the use of force against asylum-seekers by British security guards after a report found serious injuries suffered by detainees who had been handcuffed or physically restrained.

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More than one hundred participants attended the consultation as part of an open dialogue with the World Bank as they continue to shape their Energy Strategy Approach Paper.

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While pledging nonviolence, protest leaders say they will gather mass rallies and blockades of government offices, starting on Friday and building over the following days.

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Ennobling people from outside Parliament to make them ministers should be “exceptional”, cross-party MPs say.

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Three years after efforts by Congress to reform the immigration system went down in flames, the issue is slowly re-emerging onto the national stage as two senators from the opposite sides of the political aisle work on crafting another bill.

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THE Scottish Government has unveiled a vision for Scotland to lead the way globally in key technology to capture carbon dioxide from power stations and store it underground.

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FOXES and crows should be culled in the Scottish uplands to protect threatened wading birds, scientists have argued.

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PRIME Minister Gordon Brown has sent his “sincere condolences” to the family and friends of three asylum seekers who died in an apparent suicide.

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If there is one clear message coming out of the ECO:nomics Conference, it’s that we need to assign a price or cost to carbon emissions, and soon

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MIAMI — AccuWeather.com said Wednesday it expects five hurricanes to hit the U.S. coast in the 2010 Atlantic Hurricane season, which begins on the first day in June, Reuters reported.

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UNHCR and other agencies also cater for asylum seekers and urban refugees, bringing the total to 142,758, according to UNHCR’s 28 February figures. “Overall, the food security situation in the country deteriorated last year in comparison to the previous year,” UNHCR said in a briefing document.

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Foreign Secretary David Miliband is to urge the Afghan president to seek a political solution to the conflict with the Taliban.

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ABC Correspondent Craig McMurtrie returns to Haiti to ask how the 1.3 million homeless people will survive after emergency workers leave.

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The Broome Shire has accused the West Australian Government of failing to address what it calls the “third world” living conditions of Aboriginal visitors to the town.

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GORDON Brown will today be urged to improve the way asylum seekers with mental health issues are handled by authorities in the wake of the “exceptional tragedy” in whi

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The Department of Environment and Climate Change says Newcastle felt the effects of a big tsunami 50 years ago, making it important to be prepared for any future events.

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The United Nations will today announce an independent review of errors made by its climate change advisory body in an attempt to restore its credibility.

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The State Government is coming under pressure to release more land for housing as the state enters another mining boom.

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About 25 detainees are involved in an incident at an immigration removal centre near Gatwick Airport, the UK Border Agency says.

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HOUSTON — Energy Secretary Steven Chu told participants at a major energy industry gathering here today that they need to ac…

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In case you didn’t catch it, the World Bank’s top official for Africa just thumbed her nose at the dozens of renewable energy companies lining up to build clean energy in Africa’s dirtiest economy.

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