Dec 14 2009
Climate Talks Cool
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A hundred thousand protesters marched on the streets of Copenhagen over the weekend to pressure governments gathered there to agree on a fair, ambitious and binding treaty that will drastically cut green house gas emissions. Over a thousand people were arrested, most of them preemptively under a newly passed Danish law. Meanwhile, inside the halls of the Bella Center …
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As US Admiral Mike Mullen, Chair of the joint Chiefs of staff is in the middle of a surprise visit to Afghanistan, Taliban militants have been busy – over a dozen Afghan police have been killed over 24 hours in apparently coordinated attacks in a southern and a northern province. The violence is part of an ongoing pattern in …
Proposed legislation in Uganda targeting homosexuals may reportedly be revised before coming to the parliament in the coming weeks. As it was introduced earlier this October, homosexuality, already a crime in the African nation, would be subjected to harsher prosecution if the bill were to become law. Member of Parliament David Bahati of the ruling National Resistance Movement party …
