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Shock as retreat of Arctic sea ice releases deadly greenhouse gas

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

The Independent - By Steve Connor - Dec. 13 (News Report) - Dramatic and unprecedented plumes of methane a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide have been seen bubbling to the surface of the Arctic Ocean by scientists undertaking an extensive survey of the region.

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The race to save the euro

Mon, 05 Dec 2011 18:20:02 -0800

The Independent - Dec. 05 - Amending EU treaties usually takes years. To "save" the euro – and to prevent the world from tipping into deep recession – European leaders have given themselves five days. Or perhaps four months.

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Moscow applies to extend Arctic border

Thu, 07 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Independent - Jul. 07 (News) - Russia says it will formally submit an application to the United Nations next year to redraw the map of the Arctic, giving itself a bigger share of the resource-rich territory.

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Surprise discovery allows scientists to block Alzheimer's

Thu, 09 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Independent - By Jeremy Laurance - Jun. 09 (News) - Researchers said they were "thrilled" at the unexpected discovery that two antibodies – extensively studied in relation to CJD – may also have an affect on Alzheimer's disease. Almost 500,000 people a year in the UK and 20 million worldwide suffer from Alzheimer's.

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Afghan pilot kills nine US trainers in 'personal' row

Thu, 28 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Independent - By Julius Cavendish - Apr. 28 (News Report) - Eight American soldiers and a civilian contractor were shot and killed by an Afghan pilot in Kabul yesterday after an argument erupted during a meeting at the city's military airport.

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Secret memos expose link between oil firms and invasion of Iraq

Tue, 19 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Independent - By Paul Bignell - Apr. 19 (Special Report) - Plans to exploit Iraq's oil reserves were discussed by government ministers and the world's largest oil companies the year before Britain took a leading role in invading Iraq, government documents show.

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Environment Secretary under fire over forest sale

Thu, 03 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

The Independent - By Andrew Grice - Feb. 03 (News Report) - The Environment Secretary Caroline Spelman came under fire from MPs in all parties yesterday as she defended her controversial plans to sell off England's public forests. Ministers admitted privately that they had not explained it properly and were being inundated with protest letters and emails. More than 360,000 people have signed a "save our forests" petition.

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Relief as Queensland studies cyclone damage

Thu, 03 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Associated Press - By Kristen Gelineau - Feb. 03 (News Report) - One of the most powerful storms ever recorded in Australia pulled houses apart and snapped power poles as it ripped across flood-sodden Queensland state Thursday but didn't kill anyone. Officials had issued days of increasingly dire warnings

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This isn't just about bees – it affects everything

Thu, 20 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

The Independent - By Michael Mccarthy - Jan. 20 (Opinion) - How will we characterise our age? By the birth of the internet? The rise of China? The first black US president? Perhaps in all those ways. But we could also say, less obviously but perhaps more fundamentally, that ours is the age when the insects disappeared.

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Blair did not reflect legal advice on Iraq war

Tue, 18 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

The Independent - By Michael Savage - Jan. 18 (News Report) - Tony Blair was placed under further pressure ahead of his second appearance before the Iraq Inquiry after his most senior legal adviser said last night that the former prime minister's public statements about the invasion contradicted the legal advice he had been given.

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Ike was right all along: The danger of the military-industrial complex

Mon, 17 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

The Independent - By Rupert Cornwell - Jan. 17 (Opinion) - If you doubt, half a century on, that Dwight Eisenhower had it right, then consider the advertisements on WTOP, the Washington region's all-news radio station. Every big metro area in the US has one, where car dealerships tout their bargains, and fast food chains promote a new special offer.

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Gabrielle Giffords is the victim of a debased political culture

Mon, 10 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

The Independent - By Jonathan Raban - Jan. 10 (Opinion) - One could be shocked, but hardly surprised, by the news that on Saturday morning the Arizona congresswoman, Gabrielle Giffords, had been shot while meeting with her constituents outside a Safeway supermarket in suburban Tucson, and that the gunman had killed six of the people who were with her, including a federal judge and a nine-year-old girl. It was an event that seemed to grow out of America's present disturbed and angry climate, like a killer-tornado or hurricane: awful, yes, but part of the weather, and, in some sense, only to be expected.

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Freed on bail but US steps up efforts to charge Assange with conspiracy

Fri, 17 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

The Independent - By Kim Sengupta, David Usborne - Dec. 17 (News Report) - US authorities have stepped up their efforts to prosecute Julian Assange by offering Bradley Manning, the American soldier allegedly responsible for leaking hundreds of thousands of government documents, the possibility of a plea bargain if he names the Wiki-Leaks founder as a fellow conspirator.

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Assange could face espionage trial in US

Wed, 08 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

The Independent - By Kim Sengupta - Dec. 08 (News) - Informal discussions have already taken place between US and Swedish officials over the possibility of the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange being delivered into American custody, according to diplomatic sources.

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The US economy requires realism to beat the slump – not quick fixes

Mon, 06 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

The Independent - By Stephen King - Dec. 06 (Opinion) - America's much-vaunted labour-market flexibility is badly misfiring. Despite a massive policy stimulus, not enough people are managing to get back to work.

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Osborne in court fight over 'anti-women' cuts

Mon, 06 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

The Independent - By Andrew Grice - Dec. 06 (News Report) - The government failed to consider the impact of its spending cuts on women before pushing ahead with them, the High Court will hear today.

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Google faces landmark fine for 'gross invasion of privacy'

Mon, 25 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The Independent - By Andy McSmith - Oct. 25 (News) - Google faces being the first company to incur heavy fines under British privacy laws, after admitting downloading private emails and passwords.

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Breakthrough in Britain's war on drugs and crime

Mon, 04 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The Independent - By Robert Verkaik - Oct. 04 (Research) - The long battle to break the link between drug addiction and criminal behaviour is being won, a ground-breaking study into the long-term success rates of treatment programmes suggests.

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Can the world live with the pace of economic growth? Time to find out Environment

Fri, 24 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The Independent - By Michael McCarthy - Sep. 24 (Review) - Economists may think of growth as endless, but the fact is that the Earth is finite, and sooner or later, as the human population soars towards nine billion, limits will be reached. In fact, in some areas, such as the exploitation of fish stocks, they have been reached already. Can we go on like this?

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Can the world live with the pace of economic growth? Time to find out

Thu, 23 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The Independent - Sep. 23 (News) - It used to be the biggest question, but now it seems to be the forgotten question of the environment movement: can economic growth continue indefinitely? And this weekend it's going to be brought back into the spotlight at a major international

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From the US comes a nasty whiff

Wed, 15 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The Independent - By Matthew Norman - Sep. 15 (Opinion) - Exactly what is unfolding there remains hard to identify even for those better placed by geography, experience and intellect than your columnist. But even at this remove it is apparent that America is suffering some kind of paranoid psychotic episode.

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The two faces of modern America

Sun, 12 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The Independent - By Yasmin Alibhai-Brown - Sep. 12 (Opinion) - It ain't over. The anniversary of the 9/11 attacks has mercifully passed without a mass barbeque of flamed holy Korans planned by the florid Florida pastor Terry Jones. But he is still there, waiting to start another fire, to protect his America,

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Terry Jones: Bonfire of one man's vanity

Fri, 10 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The Independent - By Stephen Foley, David Usborne - Sep. 10 (News) - The fundamentalist pastor who promised to mark the anniversary of the September 11 attacks by burning hundreds of copies of the Koran pulled the plug on his stunt last night, in the face of blanket condemnation from world leaders and a warning from Interpol that Christians around the world were at risk of violent revenge attacks.

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If anyone is fanatic it's Sarah Palin

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The Independent - By Mark Steel - Aug. 24 (Opinion) - To give yourself a stressful and futile day, try telling people there are no plans to build a mosque at Ground Zero. You'll get nowhere, although the truth is there are plans to build an Islamic centre, with a swimming pool open to everyone,

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Councils to sell electricity to the national grid in green initiative

Fri, 06 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The Independent - By Nigel Morris - Aug. 06 (News) - Town halls could become mini power stations under plans to allow councils to sell "green electricity" to the national grid.

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