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Crops outlook gloomy

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Aljazeera - Jun. 20 (News) - Interest in long-range weather forecasts has always been high. But it is likely to intensify as weather conditions continue to threaten crops in many parts of the world including China, North America and Europe. Whilst crops in the southeast of China [pr

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Why is America the 'no-vacation nation'?

Mon, 23 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

CNN - May. 23 (Investigative Report) - Thinking of getting away? You probably have much less vacation than workers in other parts of the world. Employers in the United States are not obligated to offer any paid vacationVacation is mandated by law in many other parts of the worldPoll: Only 57%

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Southwest Airlines grounds jets over mid-air hole scare

Sat, 02 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

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Mississippi River pours as much dispersant into the Gulf of Mexico as BP

Wed, 11 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The New Orleans Times-Picayune - By Mark Schleifstein, The Times-Picayune - Aug. 11 (News Report) - Every day during the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster, contractors sprayed an average 140,000 pounds of Corexit dispersant onto oil slicks on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico and into the oil being released a mile below.

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North Korea warns of nuclear 'sacred war'

Sat, 24 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - Jul. 24 (News Report) - North Korea says it will use its "nuclear deterrent" in response to joint US-South Korean military exercises this weekend. Pyongyang was ready to launch a "retaliatory sacred war" at any time, the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said.

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Indo-American relations to crumble or advance?

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

United Press International - By Abhirup Bhunia - Jul. 16 (News) - The present relationship between India and the United States and a future buildup of diplomatic ties, could be decisive in shaping events on the global stage, experts say.

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UK watchdog to probe Goldman Sachs

Wed, 21 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - By Robert Peston - Apr. 21 (News) - Advertisement The Financial Services Authority has announced an investigation into the activities of the American investment bank Goldman Sachs, after fraud charges were brought last week in the United States.

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Scientists find it difficult to predict volcano behavior

Wed, 21 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Joel Achenbach - Apr. 21 (News Report) - After eruption, scientists having difficult time predicting what’s next

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Exxon’s Oozing Texas Oil Pits Haunt Residents as XTO Deal Nears

Tue, 20 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Bloomberg - By Joe Carroll - Apr. 20 (Special Report) - Bo Vavrusa was heaping dirt into the path of a wildfire on a Texas ranch in October 2007 when his tractor rammed an Exxon Mobil Corp. natural-gas pipe hidden in a thicket. Flames engulfed the tractor, burning his face, arms and hands as he fled. “I thought I was fixing to die,” said Vavrusa, 28, who was earning $10 an hour to groom the ranch for quail and dove hunters. Exxon, the biggest U.S. oil producer, has neglected this stretch of Texas since its oil fields began drying up in the 1970s, said Jerry Patterson, the state’s General Land Office Commissioner. Now Patterson and other state officials are urging Texas lawmakers to follow the examples of California and Pennsylvania in cracking down on oilfield practices that have left leaking pipelines, wells and storage tanks.

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With no survivors in West Virginia mine blast, focus shifts to responsibility

Sat, 10 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - By Patrik Jonsson - Apr. 10 (News) - Rescuers working 1,000 feet underground in the Upper Big Branch mine returned to the surface early Saturday morning with bad news: There were no survivors left in the worst US coal mining accident in 40 years. Twenty-nine died. "We did not receive the the miracle that we prayed for," Gov. Joe Manchin said in a barely-audible voice. "So this journey has ended and now the healing will start." But healing isn't all families, investigators and even President Obama want: Capping off a draining and sadly familiar scene in Appalachian coal country, Americans now turn inevitably to the next question: Who – or what – is responsible? IN PICTURES: West Virginia mine explosion The investigation is sure to once again test the uneasy tension between coal operators and safety regulators as mine experts try to reconstruct what caused the ripping blast – and whether it could have been avoided. Tougher laws sought Following disasters at the Sago and Aracoma Alma mines four years ago, federal regulators have sought tougher laws with sharper teeth to shake coal companies out of what many perceive as a troubling complacency about safety in the mines. That effort may have a way to go, judging by last week's explosion. "No stone will be unturned" in the investigation, the Mine Safety and Health Administration's Kevin Stricklin told the New York Times. The investigation at the mine, which is owned by Massey Energy Co., also will be joined by President Obama, who is expecting answers in a report due next week. Miners know they have dangerous jobs, said Obama, but "the government and their employer know that they owe it to these employees’ families to do everything possible to ensure their safety.” Company repeatedly fined Since the explosion, details of safety violations at the mine have emerged. The company has been repeatedly fined for issues with a venting system in the Upper Big Branch. Methane build-up likely caused the explosion, experts say. Massey CEO Don Blankenship has defended his company's safety record, bluntly stating that he values miners' lives more than the black rock. To be sure, much is yet to be determined about the cause of the accident. After the 2006 Sago mine explosion, investigators found lightning, not human error, likely caused the explosion. Criminal charges rare Criminal charges against actual mine operators are rare, but the government has filed – and won – criminal lawsuits against companies. In 2008, a subsidiary of Massey paid out $4.2 million in civil and criminal fines for a 2006 fire that killed two workers at Aracoma Alma. (Other countries aren't so sanguine when it comes to mine safety. In 2004, China executed a party official for helping to cover up a 2001 tin mine disaster in Guangxi, which killed at least 81 miners.) Early Saturday morning, rescuers found the final four bodies, ending days of harrowing searches where crews traversed winding shafts deep under the crust, fighting noxious fumes and blinding smoke. “Every disaster doesn’t have to happen,” Christopher Shaw, a policy analyst at the Center for Study of Responsive Law, told the Monitor this week. “They go back and ask, ‘Why did it happen?’ It always turns out people didn’t do what they were supposed to do.” IN PICTURES: West Virginia mine explosion

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Veterans struggle in tough job market

Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Public Radio International - By Kirk Carapezza - Mar. 22 (News Report) - he US Bureau of Labor Statistics says in 2009, veterans 24 years old and younger had an unemployment rate of roughly 27 percent, about 10 percent higher than civilians of the same age group. Ken Grant with the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development says it's party because some employers simply won't hire a veteran.

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'Terminator' carp threatens Great Lakes

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - By Ed Pilkington - Feb. 24 (News Report) - Environmentalists say Asian carp, an invasive species of food-guzzling fish, could cause an ecological disaster if it enters Lake Michigan The fight looks utterly unequal. In the red corner: the combined might of North America, including the US and Canadian governments, the US army, the governors of eight American states, two Senate committees and the supreme court. In the blue corner: one fish. The way things are looking, the fish is winning. At stake is the health of the Great Lakes, the world?s largest body of fresh water. Environmentalists warn of ecological disaster, courtesy of Asian carp, an invasive species of food-guzzling fish that is within miles of entering Lake Michigan. If they do, they would have the potential to ...

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Canada court says its officials knew U.S. abused detainee

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

McClatchy - By Carol Rosenberg | Miami Herald - Aug. 14 (News Report) - Canada must seek the immediate return of Toronto-born Guantanamo captive Omar Khadr rather than await the outcome of his U.S. military trial because American troops mistreated the alleged teen terrorist and Canadian officials knew about it, Canada's appeals court ruled Friday.

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U.S. citizens wrongly detained, deported by ICE

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

San Francisco Chronicle - By Tyche Hendricks - Jul. 27 (News Report) - The son of a decorated Vietnam veteran, Hector Veloz is a U.S. citizen, but in 2007 immigration officials mistook him for an illegal immigrant and locked him in an Arizona prison for 13 months

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Second wolf pack confirmed in Washington

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Seattle Times - Jul. 14 (News Report) - State biologists have confirmed a second wolf pack in Washington state, this time in a remote area of Pend Oreille County.

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Forest Service creates Alaska experimental forest: AP Alaska

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Anchorage Daily News - Jul. 02 (News Report) - The federal government has designated a portion of the Tongass National Forest as an experimental forest.

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Asia-Pacific | North Korea 'test fires missiles'

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - Jul. 02 (News Report) - North Korea has test-fired four short-range missiles, South Korea's Yonhap news agency has reported. The agency quoted defence officials as saying the fourth was launched at around 1220GMT from Sinsang-ni.

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Blue whales returning to their former Alaska habitat: Marine Wildlife

Tue, 19 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Anchorage Daily News - By Mary Pemberton - May. 19 (News Report) - Blue whales are returning to Alaska waters in search of food and could be re-establishing an old migration route decades after they were nearly wiped out by commercial whalers, scientists say.

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Race a Dominant Theme at Summit

Sun, 19 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Scott Wilson - Apr. 19 (News Report) - In presenting himself at a summit here as an equal partner to Latin America, President Obama is drawing on his race as evidence of U.S. social progress and of his own affinity for the region's poor. Race occupies a far larger and more troubled place in Latin American politics than it does in Europe, where Obama rarely mentioned his ethnic background this month during his first overseas trip as president.

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Unemployment Rose Sharply Among Latino Immigrants in 2008

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Pew Research - By Rakesh Kochhar - Feb. 12 (Research) - The current recession is having an especially severe impact on employment prospects for immigrant Hispanics, according to an analysis of the latest Census Bureau data by the Pew Hispanic Center, a project of the Pew Research Center. The unemployment rate for foreign-born Hispanics increased from 5.1% to 8.0%, or by 2.9 percentage points, from the fourth quarter of 2007 to the fourth quarter of 2008. During this same time period, the unemployment rate for all persons in the labor market increased from 4.6% to 6.6%, or by 2.0 percentage points.

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China Jittery About Obama Amid Signs of Harder Line

Sun, 25 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Mark Landler - Jan. 25 (News Report) - Mr. Obama has little personal experience of China, and lacks senior advisers with a deep interest in or knowledge of the country. With the American economy in a deep slump, and China trying to ramp up its exports to cushion a sharp slowdown there, experts worry that trade relations between the countries could deteriorate. “They are uneasy about Hillary Clinton. She has, in their assessment, not been a friend of China.”

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In Arctic 'cold war,' Russia plows ahead

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

McClatchy - By Queenie Won - Aug. 05 (News Report) - A new cold war is breaking out in the race for Arctic oil, natural gas and minerals, and it involves front-line icebreakers. Russia has seven and the United States has three, if you count one that's laid up in Seattle and won't be seaworthy for a year.

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Edwards Condemns NAFTA

Sat, 08 Dec 2007 10:43:51 -0800

Associated Press - By Holly Ramer - Dec. 08 (News Report) - On the 14th anniversary of the North American Free Trade Agreement, Edwards condemned the deal that lowered trade barriers between the United States and Canada and Mexico, arguing that it has paved the way for a series of deals that put the interests of multinational corporations ahead of working families.

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Alien Invasion: The Fungus That Came to Canada

Sun, 08 Apr 2007 17:09:49 -0700

Washington Post - By Doug Struck - Apr. 08 (News Report) - An alien fungus took root on Vancouver Island eight years ago and has since killed eight people and infected at least 163 others, as well as many animals. Similar cases have been found elsewhere in British Columbia and in Washington state and Oregon. Scientists say the fungus may be thriving because of a string of unusually warm summers here. They say it is a sign of things to come

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Mexico full poll recount rejected

Sat, 05 Aug 2006 20:41:16 -0700

BBC News - Aug. 05 (News Report) - Mexico's electoral body has rejected a request by left-wing candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador for a full recount of votes from July's disputed election. Instead, the electoral tribunal's seven judges ordered a partial recount.

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