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Blackwaters and Blackwater-wannabees start pitching at "the humanitarian market", as they are running out of work in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Should private security companies take over...
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In October, largely hidden from public view, the International Accounting Standards Board changed the rules so European banks could make their balance sheets look better.
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And to cap it all, yesterday, the UN's climate change body asked for US$130 billion dollars a year to help poor countries adapt to global warming and curb their carbon emissions. (Full)
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I don't know when my car needs maintenance. My car reminds me, 500 miles before.
I don't carry cash. I just slid a card in a slot. For those backward situations, where I do need cash,...
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110 million landmines lie in the ground on every continent. It will cost $33 billion and at the present de-mining rate, it will take 1,100 years to clear them all.
Bart Weetjens, an engineer...
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Thanksgiving and the Xmas season is upon us. This is a time where often we hand out presents. How about if this year, you hand out a "present with a difference"?
Here are some ideas
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Now that Ms Hillary Clinton has been offered the post of "Secretary of State" in Obama's upcoming government, the Clintons are in a bind.. Why? Well the contacts Mista Clinton has...
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Hoping to prevent this from happening, Ecuador's environment minister requests for compensation to keep the oil under the forest, under the form of "CO2" or carbon credits.
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A report released by the UN last month documented 490 attacks on UN offices, convoys, and premises between July 2007 and June this year, resulting in the deaths of 26 staff.
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Matthew Alexander led an interrogations team assigned to a Special Operations task force in Iraq in 2006. He is the author of "How to Break a Terrorist: The U.S. Interrogators Who Used...
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