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Green Fuels Cause More Harm Than Fossil Fuels, According to Report…
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Environment Editor
Using fossil fuel in vehicles is better for the environment than so-called green fuels made from crops, according to a government study seen by The Times.
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The findings show that the Department for Transport’s target for raising the level of biofuel in all fuel sold in Britain will result in millions of acres of forest being logged or burnt down and converted to plantations. The study, likely to force a review of the target, concludes that some of the most commonly-used biofuel crops fail to meet the minimum sustainability standard set by the European Commission.Green Fuels Cause More Harm Than Fossil Fuels, According to Report…
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TEHRAN — Hundreds of thousands of black-clad protesters massed quietly in central Tehran on Thursday for another day of protest over last week’s disputed presidential election, even as the Iranian government made its first move toward some form of dialogue to defuse the outrage.
The move came in the form of an invitation from the country’s powerful Guardian Council to the three losing candidates to meet to discuss their grievances.
The exact motives, timing and conditions of the proposed meeting, reported by state media, remained unclear. The offer, from a legal panel largely controlled by the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was widely seen as a government effort to buy time in the hopes of dampening the momentum of days of enormous protests taking place in open defiance of the government’s authority.
The government also seemed to be building a case that challenges to the election represented a threat to national security, with the Intelligence Ministry describing an election-day bomb plot linked to foreign enemies, Reuters reported.
Beginning at about 4 p.m. local time on Thursday, thousands of people began gathering Tehran’s Imam Khomeini Square. The crowd quickly grew to the hundreds of thousands, stretching beyond the borders of the square — one of the cities largest — and filling the surrounding streets, witnesses said. The protest seemed even larger that Monday’s, which Tehran’s mayor said numbered three million.
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TEHRAN – The Guardian Council, one of Iran's top oversight bodies, said Thursday it would invite the country's three unsuccessful presidential challengers to a meeting, while protests again filled the streets of the capital.
The move by the council was the latest in a series of unprecedented concessions to the losers in June 12 elections, which officials said were won in a landslide by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Mir Hossein Mousavi and two other presidential challengers have alleged vote rigging, a charge Mr. Ahmadinejad has denied.
The council didn't specify a time, except to say the meeting would be early next week. The announcement came amid another day of extensive protests Thursday afternoon in Tehran.
"The presidential candidates will be invited to the meeting to be held early next week to express their ideas and ask any questions in the presence of the Guardian Council's members," the council's spokesman Abbas-Ali Kadkhodaei was quoted saying on state media.
State media said the Guardian Council, which earlier in the week had said it would consider recounting some ballots in contested districts, was already reviewing a report on the balloting and hearing testimony from election supervisors.
Tens of thousands of black-clad protesters filled the streets of Tehran again Thursday, joining Mr. Mousavi to mourn demonstrators killed in clashes.
Many in the crowd wore green wristbands and carried flowers in mourning as they filed into Imam Khomenei Square, a large plaza in the heart of the capital named for the founder of the Islamic Revolution, witnesses told the Associated Press. Demonstrators marched silently until they arrived at the square, where some chanted "Death to the Dictator!" and "Where are our votes!"
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Iranian Reformist leader Mir Hussein Mousavi is calling for mass protests against the election results and murders of seven of his followers. The Revolutionary Guard is warning bloggers and others to stop any actions that may be construed as dangerous, otherwise they will face the legal consequences.Iranian Reformist leader Mir Hussein Mousavi is calling for mass protests against the... more
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