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WORLD / NEWS Fri Jun 13, 2008 @ 8:20am neoform

BBC News -- Japan is to partially lift sanctions against North Korea after it agreed to conduct a new probe into the issue of abducted Japanese nationals. Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura said a ban on charter flights and travel between the two sides would be lift.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Thu Jun 5, 2008 @ 8:14am neoform

BBC News -- The UN food summit in Rome, called in response to soaring prices around the world, is to issue a declaration setting out its proposals. It wants urgent action to help farmers plant more crops this year, but there are disagreements over the role of biof.. Read More

WORLD / OPINION Thu Jun 14, 2007 @ 9:13am neoform

Salon -- I returned from Europe a week before President Bush departed for the G8 summit in Germany. In Rome and Paris I met with Cabinet ministers who uniformly said the chief issue in transatlantic relations is somehow making it through the last 18 months of the.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sat May 26, 2007 @ 10:25am neoform

BBC News -- Archbishop Desmond Tutu has called on Africa's Anglican church to overcome its "obsession" with the issue of gay priests and same-sex marriages. He said they should spend time on more pressing issues in the region. Speaking to the BBC World Service,.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Thu Apr 5, 2007 @ 1:07am neoform

CNN -- The U.N. Security Council will discuss potential threats to international security from climate change for the first time later this month. Britain's U.N. Ambassador Emyr Jones Parry, the current council president, said Wednesday the meeting will highl.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Wed Mar 28, 2007 @ 4:21pm neoform

BBC News -- Riots at a train station in the French capital, Paris, have become an issue in the upcoming presidential election. The government's candidate, Nicolas Sarkozy, said police were justified in arresting an alleged fare dodger - the action that sparked the.. Read More