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WORLD / NEWS Wed Dec 12, 2007 @ 8:20am neoform

BBC News -- United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has opened high-level talks at the climate change conference in Bali with a call to action. He said that if no action were taken, the world would face impacts such as drought, famine and rising sea levels... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Fri Feb 23, 2007 @ 9:43am mrmdc

Yahoo News -- Forty-six nations adopted a declaration Friday calling for a 2008 treaty banning cluster bombs, saying the weapons kill and maim long after conflicts end and inflict "unacceptable harm" on civilians, particularly children. Some key arms makers — incl.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Wed Jan 3, 2007 @ 5:28am neoform

BBC News -- Italy will campaign at the United Nations for a global ban on the death penalty, Prime Minister Romano Prodi has said... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Mon Nov 20, 2006 @ 1:40am neoform

www.smdailyjournal.com -- Belmont is set to make history by becoming the first city in the nation to ban smoking on its streets and almost everywhere else... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sat Nov 18, 2006 @ 11:33pm neoform

Yahoo News -- The Dutch government agreed on Friday a total ban on the wearing of burqas and other Muslim face veils in public, justifying the move on security grounds... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Fri Nov 17, 2006 @ 2:57pm mrmdc

International Herald Tribune -- The easing of a ban on the popular online encyclopedia traffic in China was short-lived... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Thu Oct 26, 2006 @ 8:28am neoform

Reuters -- South Korea announced on Thursday it would ban the entry of North Koreans who are part of Pyongyang's nuclear weapons program, the first step taken by Seoul to adhere to U.N. sanctions... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Tue Jun 3, 2008 @ 8:18am neoform

BBC News -- UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has urged nations to seize an "historic opportunity to revitalise agriculture" as a way of tackling the food crisis. Mr Ban told a UN-sponsored summit in Rome that food production would have to rise by 50% by 2030 to me.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Thu May 22, 2008 @ 8:22am neoform

BBC News -- UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has arrived in cyclone-hit Burma to tour the devastated Irrawaddy Delta and meet military ruler Gen Than Shwe. Mr Ban hopes to persuade the government to accept more aid for cyclone victims. Burma's rulers have block.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Thu May 22, 2008 @ 8:19am neoform

MSNBC -- With Foreign Minister Nyan Win present, Ban said that he wanted to see the delivery of foreign aid and the deployment of aid workers carried out in a "more systematic way." U.N. official Dan Baker said that junta leader, Senior Gen. Than Shwe, would Fr.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Tue Apr 29, 2008 @ 8:18am neoform

BBC News -- The United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, is setting up a task force to tackle the global food crisis. Mr Ban said the world faced "widespread hunger, malnutrition and social unrest on an unprecedented scale" because of soaring food prices... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Tue Jan 29, 2008 @ 8:13am neoform

BBC News -- Two major parties in Turkey say they will submit a joint plan to parliament to ease a ban on the Islamic headscarf in universities. The Islamist-rooted governing AK Party and the nationalist MHP say it is an issue of human rights and freedoms. The t.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Fri Nov 16, 2007 @ 8:27am neoform

BBC News -- Turkish prosecutors have reportedly moved to ban a pro-Kurdish political party in Turkey that has been accused of colluding with Kurdish rebels. Supreme Court prosecutors asked the Constitutional Court to bar the Democratic Society Party (DTP), the sta.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Tue Oct 16, 2007 @ 8:13am neoform

SF Gate -- One day after California became the first state in the nation to ban toys containing toxic plastic softeners, supporters of the measure announced plans Monday to help at least nine other states - and perhaps even Congress - enact similar laws. The move.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Fri Oct 12, 2007 @ 8:15am neoform

CNN -- The Dutch government said Friday that it will ban the sale of hallucinatory mushrooms, rolling back one element of the country's permissive drug policy after a series of high-profile negative incidents. The decision will go into effect within several m.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sat Jul 14, 2007 @ 10:57pm neoform

News 24 -- As shortages of basic goods worsen in crisis-hit Zimbabwe, President Robert Mugabe's government has decided to ban the import of groceries for resale, it emerged on Friday. The ban, which will come into effect on August 1, will cripple the businesses o.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Tue Jun 26, 2007 @ 8:18am neoform

BBC News -- Aboriginal elders are threatening to ban tourists from one of Australia's landmarks over a plan to curb child sex abuse in Aboriginal communities. The threat to close Uluru, or Ayers Rock, comes amid growing alarm. Some 50 community, church and indi.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Wed May 30, 2007 @ 11:05pm neoform

BBC News -- Bolivia's President Evo Morales has joined a street football match to protest against Fifa's ban on international games at high altitude. Mr Morales said that if he and his ministers could play at more than 2,500m (8,200ft) above sea level, so too coul.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sun May 27, 2007 @ 5:29am neoform

BBC News -- Russian homosexual rights activists have vowed to go ahead with a march in Moscow despite an official ban and a planned counter-demonstration. GayRussia organiser Nikolai Alexeyev said activists would deliver a petition to Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov. Th.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sat May 19, 2007 @ 11:34am neoform

CNN -- Thousands of people marched Saturday in the capital's annual gay-rights parade, days after the education minister called for a ban on the "propagation of homosexuality" in Poland's schools. About 5,000 demonstrators marched from parliament through down.. Read More