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Time running out on climate change accord

by Fakir Hassen December 17, 2009 World

Copehagen: Hours before the world leaders will arrive for the Copenhagen summit’s final day, negotiators from about 30 countries in Denmark have worked on an outline draft accord regarding the climate change.

The draft is expected to call for preventing global temperatures from going up more than 2.0 degrees Celsius compared to pre-industrial times.
Many world leaders [...]

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Bombings in Afghan kill British and Afghan Soldiers

by Fakir Hassen December 16, 2009 World

Kabul: In a suspected suicide bombing in southern Afghanistan, two British soldiers and two Afghan soldiers have been killed. Earlier in the day, a U.S. soldier was killed in a bomb attack elsewhere in the region.

Early Tuesday, a suicide car bomber struck Kabul’s heavily secured main diplomatic and residential district Tuesday, killing at least eight [...]

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Silvio Berlusconi in hospital, need weeks of treatment

by Fakir Hassen December 14, 2009 World

Milan: Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is in hospital and need weeks of treatment following the attack on him at a Milan rally.

He was set to attend the Copenhagen climate change summit this week, but now the Prime Minister has been kept in hospital for another day.
Reports say that the Italian Prime Minister’s nose was [...]

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Israelis protests in Jerusalem against PM’s decision

by Fakir Hassen December 10, 2009 World

Jerusalem: The decision to partially suspend construction in West Bank settlements by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, is being protested by Israelis.
The protesters held up signs on Wednesday reading “God’s Bible gave us this land” and “We will keep building in Judea and Samaria,” and wore T-shirts declaring, “Freeze the freeze”.
Judea and Samaria are the Hebrew [...]

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Australia supports green fund for Kyoto Protocol

by Fakir Hassen December 8, 2009 World

CANBERRA: At the Copenhaen climate conference on Tuesday, Australia has backed the creation of a U.S. 10 billion dollar a year green fund to help vulnerable countries and called for a new legal treaty to replace the Kyoto Protocol.
Australian diplomats backed by the “umbrella group”, which includes the U.S., Canada, Japan and Russia, supported a [...]

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Federal charges filed against David Headley

by Fakir Hassen December 8, 2009 World

Chicago: Lashkar-e-Taiba operative David Coleman Headley was charged with new federal charges accusing him of conspiracy in the Mumbai attacks and also to his involvement in a Denmark terror plot.
American citizen of Pak origin, Headley was charged with six counts of conspiracy to bomb public places in India and Denmark and to provide material support [...]

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Suicide bombing killed 22, Somali rebels denies carrying out bombing

by Arpana December 4, 2009 World

Mogadishu: A suicide bombing at a medical graduation ceremony in the capital killed 22 people. A spokesman for Somalia’s hardline al Shabaab rebels denied carrying out the bombings.
“We declare that al Shabaab did not mastermind that explosion … we believe it is a plot by the government itself,” al Shabaab spokesman Sheikh Ali Mohamud Rage [...]

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European Union’s Lisbon Treaty comes into force

by Fakir Hassen December 2, 2009 World

Lisbon: With the aim of stremalining EU decision making, the European Union’s Lisbon Treaty has come into force. The European Union welcomed the Lisbon Treaty with a ceremony in Lisbon.
The new treaty lays out a series of fundamental changes within the European Union, including creating the bloc’s first permanent president.
Former Belgian prime minister Herman Van [...]

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Switzerland facing international criticism for minaret ban

by Fakir Hassen November 30, 2009 World

The recent ban on construction of new minarets in Switzerland is facing international criticism and charges of intolerance.

Swiss is being criticised tha it oppressed religious freedom. Despite efforts made by the Swiss government to assure Muslims it was not a rejection of their religion, the act is being widely condemned.
Muslims account for about five per [...]

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