World
Jobs, justice and climate: what the G20 must do to ensure global economic recovery
March 14, 2009As G20 finance ministers gather in the UK today (Friday) to agree the world's response to the economic crisis, the Put People First platform has released a blueprint charting a path out of global recession that...
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Experts ask U.S. to condemn dirty campaigning in El Salvador
March 13, 2009For months now, leading up to El Salvador’s presidential elections scheduled this Sunday, March 15, reliable polls had indicated that voters were on the verge of making history. Presidential candidate Mauricio Funes with the Farabundo Marti...
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Pakistan opposition protesters defy ban
March 13, 2009Thousands of Pakistani opposition activists defied a ban on protests and launched a sit-in outside parliament on Thursday. People flocked to Islamabad from cities across Pakistan, despite attempts by riot police to prevent them from taking...
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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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