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Countries submit action plans to combat trade in elephant ivory (Cached)	18.5.2013	New Kerala: India News
New York, May 18 : Eight countries identified as being the most affected by the illegal trade in elephant ivory have submitted national action plans to the United Nations-backed treaty for the conservation of endangered species containing measures to combat the scourge.
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Nigerian rebels could face war crimes charges: UN (Cached)	18.5.2013	New Kerala: India News
New York, May 18 : Members of Boko Haram and other extremist groups in Nigeria could face war crimes charges for deliberate acts leading to ethnic and religious cleansing, the top United Nations human rights official said Friday.
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Exit Europe from the left \| Bob Crow	18.5.2013	Guardian: Comment is Free
Most Britons dislike the European Union. If trade unions don't articulate their concerns, the hard right will For years the electorate has overwhelmingly opposed Britain's membership of the European Union – particularly those who work for a living. Yet while movements in other countries that are critical of the EU are led by the left , in Britain they are dominated by the hard right, and working-class concerns are largely ignored. This is particularly strange when you consider that the EU is largely a Tory neoliberal project. Not only did the Conservative prime minister Edward Heath take Britain into the common market in 1973 , but Margaret Thatcher campaigned to stay in it in the 1975 referendum, and was one of the architects of the Single European Act – which gave us the single market, EU militarisation and eventually the struggling euro. After the Tories dumped the born-again Eurosceptic Thatcher, John Major rammed through the Maastricht treaty and embarked on the disastrous ...
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Copy by the book or risk killing academic publishing	18.5.2013	Hindu: Home
Copyright assures the supply of quality educational material worldwide. The world and India need well-educated graduates and university students need access to high quality educational material. S...
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Guatemala's victory for human rights highlights a major US failure \| Amy Goodman	17.5.2013	Guardian: Comment is Free
The US should extradite officials complicit with genocide in Guatemala, whose former dictator was convicted last week Guatemala's former de facto president, Efrain Rios Montt, was hauled off to prison last Friday . It was a historic moment, the first time in history that a former leader of a country was tried for genocide in a national court. More than three decades after he seized power in a coup in Guatemala, unleashing a US-backed campaign of slaughter against his own people, the 86-year-old stood trial, charged with genocide and crimes against humanity. He was given an 80-year prison sentence. The case was inspired and pursued by three brave Guatemalan women: the judge, the attorney general and the Nobel Peace Prize laureate. "My brother Patrocinio was burnt to death in the Ixil region. We never found his remains," Rigoberta Menchu told me after Rios Montt's verdict was announced. She detailed the systematic slaughter of her family: "As for my mother, we never found her remains, ...
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The realities of re-negotiating Europe	17.5.2013	BBC: Front Page
Cameron's obstacle course in the eurozone
Rights group says it found government torture rooms in Syria	17.5.2013	Hindu: News
Syrians were arbitrarily detained and tortured by government forces in security buildings in northern Syria, Human Rights Watch said on Friday. Its researchers found documents and physical...
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Soros Funds Anti-‘Torture’ Report	17.5.2013	American Spectator
Receiving wide media attention and almost no critique, the George Soros–funded Constitution Project recently released its “Task Force on Detainee Treatment” report alleging “torture” by the George W. Bush Administration. Professing non-partisanship, the task force included former Arkansas Republican Congressman Asa Hutchinson and former Reagan-appointed FBI director William Sessions, age 83, who left office amid allegations of ethics violations. A New York Times account described the report as a “nonpartisan, independent review of interrogation and detention programs in the years after the Sept. 11,” without noting funding by Soros and other left-wing philanthropies for the Constitution Project, which it called a “legal research and advocacy group.” The Task Force lamented there had never before in the U.S. been “the kind of considered and detailed discussions that occurred after 9/11 directly involving a president and his top advisers on the wisdom, propriety and legality of inflicting pain ...
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Pak media says 'correct combination' key to success in cricket (Cached)	17.5.2013	New Kerala: India News
Karachi, May 17 : The Pakistani media has said that the key to the success of the team lies in getting the correct combination for the team before they head into serious cricket, including the upcoming ICC Champions Trophy.
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Israeli, Palestinian leaders should resume negotiations: Ban (Cached)	17.5.2013	New Kerala: India News
New York, May 17 : UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, in separate conversations with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, stressed the need for the parties to create the conditions conducive to resuming meaningful negotiations, his spokesperson said on Thursday.
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US 'saw Syria chemical evidence'	17.5.2013	BBC: World
President Barack Obama says the US has seen evidence of chemical weapons being used in Syria, after talks with Turkey's prime minister.
EFF beats the Trans Pacific Partnership to Peru, sounds the alarm about upcoming brutal, secret copyright treaty meeting (Cached)	17.5.2013	Boing Boing
EFF beats the Trans Pacific Partnership to Peru, sounds the alarm about upcoming brutal, secret copyright treaty meeting
Eurocepticism no bar to close British-French defence ties	16.5.2013	The Guardian -- World Latest
• French minister stresses "pragmatic" cooperation • Europe's two largest military powers could set the pace for other countries Euroscepticism might be spreading across Britain - and other EU countries — but it does not appear to be affecting Britain's relations with France. At least not in one important area. Far from it. Cooperation between the two nations on defence seems to be flourishing. The French defence minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian, helped to explain why at a press conference in London on Thursday. Le Drian, a Breton who speaks little English, came to see see Philip Hammond, his UK counterpart, in the framework of the Franco-British defence agreements enshrined in the 2010 Lancaster House Treaties. The two countries enjoy mutual respect because of the capabilities of their armed forces and willingness to deploy them. And certainly Hammond and David Cameron appreciated the emphasis the French (socialist) government placed on nuclear weapons in its recent defence white ...
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Berlin signals opposition to EU policing and justice opt-out by Britain	16.5.2013	The Guardian -- World Latest
Senior officials in Berlin question whether Cameron should be allowed to pick and choose where to co-operate with EU partners The home secretary's campaign to repatriate a battery of key European powers over police, justice and security policy suffered a blow on Thursday when Germany signalled its opposition to letting Britain cherrypick the policy areas in which it wanted to take part. The tough line in Berlin indicated that Britain would face an uphill task in EU negotiations over the next year. While stressing that British participation in EU-wide police and counter-terrorism operations was crucial, senior government officials in Berlin questioned whether the Cameron government should be allowed to pick and choose where to co-operate with its EU partners. Under the Lisbon treaty, Britain secured an opt-out on 136 instruments covering police and justice issues in the EU on the grounds that the policy area would be decided no longer by consensus but by qualified majority voting, ...
African leaders must emulate Chinese celebrities to save elephants \| Paula Kahumbu	16.5.2013	Guardian: Environment
Li Bingbing and Yao Ming are among the celebrities campaigning to save elephants – now African politicians must do the same The world can no longer ignore the reality that elephants may be gone within decades, unless something drastic happens to stop the slaughter. Crushing the criminal cartels in Africa is only half of the challenge, demand in consumer countries must also be choked. The demand for ivory in the Far East is unprecedented and China alone consumes over 50% of the illegal ivory coming out of Africa. Stepping up to the challenge, Chinese actress and UNEP Goodwill Ambassador, Li Bingbing has added her voice to the campaign to raise awareness about how the demand in China is fueling the killing of elephants in Africa. In an emotional press conference at UNEP headquarters in Nairobi recently, Li admitted that she had once purchased a beautiful ivory bracelet because she had no idea that it had come from a killed elephant. Like many people in China, Li asserts that ignorance in ...
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Pak players 'unimpressed' with 'peanuts' central contract hike (Cached)	16.5.2013	New Kerala: World News
Karachi, May 16 : Pakistani cricketers have said that they are unimpressed by the 15 percent hike in their central contracts by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), and has termed the raise as 'peanuts' ahead of the ICC Champions Trophy.
Joe Farman obituary	16.5.2013	Guardian: Science
Scientist whose discovery of the depletion of the ozone layer sparked global action to phase out dangerous chemicals Joe Farman, who has died aged 82, was the leader of a small group of scientists who made one of the most important discoveries in recent history. In 1985, they published a landmark paper on the ozone layer, the protective skin that filters the sun's ultraviolet rays and without which the rays can cause cancers and eye damage. Their research showed that the ozone layer was being rapidly depleted over the Antarctic. Just two years later, world governments signed the Montreal protocol, a treaty phasing out the use of CFCs, the chemicals used in aerosols and other applications that were reacting with the ozone. This swift action bore witness to the scale of the threat, and the protocol still stands as the most successful environmental treaty ever. Disaster was averted, and the dangerous chemicals were replaced by – somewhat – safer alternatives. Full repair of the ozone layer will ...
Today in History	16.5.2013	Boston Globe: Latest
Today in History
India, Azerbaijan sign treaty on mutual legal assistance in criminal matters (Cached)	16.5.2013	New Kerala: India News
New Delhi, May 15 : India and Azerbaijan have signed a treaty on mutual legal assistance in crminal matters.
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McKenna portrait hung alongside other former AGs	16.5.2013	AP Washington
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) -- A portrait of former Attorney General Rob McKenna is now hanging alongside those who preceded him as Washington state's top lawyer....

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