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China's Environment Degraded to Dangerous Point: Official
14 Kasım 2006
The degradation of China's environment is reaching a critical point where health and social stability are under threat, China's top...
Hundreds of US Soldiers Call for Iraq Withdrawal in Petition
8 Kasım 2006
Hundreds of US soldiers have signed a petition calling for a troop withdrawal from Iraq and the document is to be formally presented to...
Muslim feminists battle against 'macho' views
6 Kasım 2006
Muslim women from around the world took up the fight against a "macho" interpretation of Islam's Koran at the opening of an international...
Pentagon steps up contingency planning for strikes on North Korea: report
6 Kasım 2006
The Pentagon has stepped up planning for attacks on North Korean nuclear facilities and is bolstering US nuclear forces in the region.
Carbon pollution by industrialised countries still rising : UNFCCC
31 Ekim 2006
Greenhouse-gas emissions by the industrialised world are still rising, with the United States firmly entrenched as the biggest polluter, a...
Southeast Asian ministers to pressure Indonesia over haze
11 Ekim 2006
A meeting of Southeast Asian environment ministers is being planned to pressure Indonesia to take action on the haze crisis blighting parts...
New US intelligence report says terror theat worse because of Iraq: reports
25 Eylül 2006
A new classified US intelligence report has concluded that the war in Iraq has helped spawn a new wave of Islamic radicalism and made the...
EU, Asian summit to send global warming message
12 Eylül 2006
European and Asian leaders, eager to show that together they can produce results on the world stage, were set to make a declaration about...
Global Media Abhors US Response to 9-11
12 Eylül 2006
Newspapers across the world have strongly criticised the US response to September 11, accusing the Bush administration of bungling its "war...
US suffers world's first climate change exodus: study
18 Ağustos 2006
The first mass exodus of people fleeing the disastrous effects of climate change is not happening in low-lying Pacific islands but in the...
'God of rain' kills 77 in China
7 Ağustos 2006
Tropical storm Prapiroon swept across south China, leaving a trail of destruction with 77 people reported dead. By Peter Harmsen
Iraq parliament speaker calls for US withdrawal
24 Temmuz 2006
Iraq's parliament speaker Mahmud Mashhadani bitterly criticized US forces in Iraq, accusing them of "butchery" and demanded that they pull...
CIA Officer Claims US Ignored Warnings About WMD Errors
26 Haziran 2006
US administration officials chose to ignore a CIA officer's warnings that an Iraqi defector's claims of purported biological labs made by...
Europe sweats over water
23 Haziran 2006
Summer has still to make its official start in Europe, yet many countries are sweating - and it has less to do with the immediate...
US Gun Lobby Slams UN Meeting on Illegal Arms Trade
23 Haziran 2006
A UN conference on curbing illegal global trade in small arms came under fire from US gun owners who fear losing their weapons, UN...
Migration damaging the planet
31 Mayıs 2006
The growing number of people who migrate from developing countries to over-populated Western states in search of a better life is damaging...
Outed US Spy Was Researching Iran Nuclear Program
4 Mayıs 2006
Former undercover CIA agent Valerie Plame, whose outing sparked a major scandal rocking the White House, was working to track Iran's...
Gorbachev Urges G8 to Back Solar Power, Not Oil or Nuclear
28 Nisan 2006
Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev urged the world's biggest industrialized nations to set up a 50-billion-dollar (44-billion-euro)...
North Korean defense chief warns of pre-emptive attack on US
10 Nisan 2006
North Korea's defense chief has warned that Pyongyang could also launch a preemptive attack against the United States, with state media...
US 'Intoxicated' by Power: Gorbachev
4 Nisan 2006
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who triggered the demise of the Soviet Union's Communist empire, said in an interview that the...
Iraq War as Unpopular as Vietnam: Experts
24 Mart 2006
The Iraq war is now as unpopular at home as the Vietnam war was in 1968, but in the absence of a military draft and a clear way out,...
'War on Terror' Trials Could Allow Evidence Obtained Through Torture
3 Mart 2006
US military officers, breaking with domestic and international legal precedent, said that "war on terror" military tribunals at the...
Global warming study: polar ice sheets could start to melt this century
31 Ocak 2006
Global warming could cause ice at both poles of the Earth to start melting this century, driving up sea levels, according to a major study...
Thousands of Protesters Tear-Gassed After US Airstrike Deaths in Pakistan
16 Ocak 2006
Pakistani police tear-gassed tribesmen who burned down a US-funded aid agency office after the deaths of 18 villagers in an airstrike...
