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Scientists predict dramatic rise in sea levels
March 13, 2009Original source: Climate scientists have warned that melting polar ice sheets could cause sea levels to rise twice as much as predicted. A 2007 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) projected a sea...
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Planting one million trees for life in Peru: Incan descendants clean up Mother Earth
March 12, 2009Original source: CUZCO, Peru — The project involves men, women and children of all ages planting trees and cleaning up lakes and rivers and working to protect a region sacred to these descendants of the Incas....
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Police officer shot dead by Continuity IRA
March 11, 2009Original source: Dissident republicans the Continuity IRA fatally shot a policeman in Craigavon on Monday night as he responded to an emergency call, just 48 hours after the killing of two soldiers. The killings of British...
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Home demolitions threaten peace talks
March 11, 2009RAMALLAH, Mar 10 (IPS) - Eight months pregnant Shireen Abu Sbeh, 20, mother of a two-year-old, lives with eight other people in a two-bedroom apartment that is on a list of Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem...
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Supreme Court briefs filed in support of Cuban Five
March 11, 2009Twelve friend of the court briefs (amicus curiae) were filed with the U.S. Supreme Court March 6 in support of the position for the Court to review the case of the Cuban Five. This is the...
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