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BBC News
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The amount of money being spent globally on importing food is set to top $1 trillion (�528bn) in 2008, an influential report estimates.
Soaring food prices are the cause of the huge bill - likely to be up 26% on the 2007 total - said the UN's Food an..
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CNN
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China's foreign minister Wednesday rejected criticism of its human rights record, accusing the United States of "clinging to a Cold War mentality" and "practicing double standards." Yang Jiechi was responding to questions about a State Department report r..
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Guardian Unlimited
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Television sets and other domestic appliances will be fitted with special devices to switch off standby power as part of a radical plan to cut wasteful use of electricity, a special Conservative report will recommend this week.
In an attempt to burnish..
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CBC
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Well, we can officially call ourselves Toker Nation now. According to the 2007 World Drug Report by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, Canada has the dubious honour of leading the industrialized world in marijuana use, at least when calculated as a percent..
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Financial Times
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Beijing engineered the removal of nearly a third of a World Bank report on pollution in China because of concerns that findings on premature deaths could provoke “social unrest”.
The report, produced in co-operation with Chinese government ministri..
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BBC News
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The World Bank is alleged to have cut from a report research that suggests pollution causes hundreds of thousands of premature deaths annually in China.
The move followed pressure from Beijing, which believes the material is too sensitive and could lea..
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BBC News
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Tens of millions of people could be driven from their homes by encroaching deserts, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa and Central Asia, a report says.
The study by the United Nations University suggests climate change is making desertification "the gr..
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BBC News
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Opium production in Afghanistan is soaring out of control, the annual UN report on illegal drugs says.
The World Drug Report says more than 90% of illegal opium, which is used to make heroin, comes from Afghanistan.
It says cultivation of opium popp..
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BBC News
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Powerful governments and armed groups have been deliberately fomenting fear to erode human rights worldwide, a report by Amnesty International says.
The group's annual report on human rights says policies like those linked to the "war on terror" are cr..
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USA Today
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Delegates approved the world's first roadmap for stemming mounting greenhouse gas emissions Friday, laying out an arsenal of anti-warming measures that must be rushed into place to avert a disastrous spike in global temperatures.
The report, a summary..
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Times Online
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AL-QAEDA leaders in Iraq are planning the first “large-scale” terrorist attacks on Britain and other western targets with the help of supporters in Iran, according to a leaked intelligence report.
Spy chiefs warn that one operative had said he was..
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BBC News
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China will have 30 million more men of marriageable age than women by 2020, making it difficult for them to find wives, according to a national report...
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CTV
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A campus of Concordia University in Montreal was locked down Tuesday morning over what turned out to be a false report about an armed man on campus...
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New York Times
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A legislative commission recommended on Tuesday that New Jersey become the first state to abolish the death penalty since states began reinstating their capital punishment laws 35 years ago. Its report found “no compelling evidence” that capital punis..
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Guardian Unlimited
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Nearly two million children a year die for want of clean water and proper sanitation while the world's poor often pay more for their water than people in Britain or the US, according to a major new report...
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CNN
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China rejected a U.S. report concluding that the Chinese military is secretly increasing spending to break into U.S. military computer systems, expand its Navy, and invest in intercontinental nuclear missiles and weapons to destroy satellites. The United..
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BBC News
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said that a US report on Tehran's nuclear programme is a "great victory".
He said in a televised speech that the report had been a "fatal blow" to those who had filled the world for several years with threats,..
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BBC News
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Iran has welcomed a major US intelligence report which suggests its government is not currently trying to develop nuclear weapons.
The latest National Intelligence Estimate says it is now believed Iran stopped its weapons programme in 2003.
Tehran h..
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BBC News
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Nato countries risk turning a blind eye to torture by continuing to transfer detainees to Afghan prisons, according to a report from Amnesty International.
The report cites what it calls "consistent" incidences of torture and other abuse by Afghanistan..
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BBC News
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A police watchdog has called for a public debate over the policy to shoot suspected suicide bombers, in a report into Jean Charles de Menezes' death.
In its final report into the death, the IPCC said the shooting came after "very serious" but avoidable..
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