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2 hrs ago | NorCalBlogs

Der Spiegel Online: stagnating temperatures a puzzle

Global warming appears to have stalled. Climatologists are puzzled as to why average global temperatures have stopped rising over the last 10 years.

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Related Topix: Global Warming

7 hrs ago | EDGEboston.com News Feed

Lesbian Couple Pleads Innocent to Embezzlement Scheme

A lesbian activist faces a trial for allegedly embezzling nearly $6 million from her employer, Aviva USA; her spouse, also on trial, has denied knowingly spending ill-gotten cash.

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Related Topix: Wedding

11 hrs ago | Daily Express

Moore named PETA's Person of the Year

HOME > NEWS / SHOWBIZ > SHOWBIZ > Moore named PETA's Person of the Year SHOWBIZ SIR ROGER MOORE has been honoured by the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals in the U.K. for his campaign to ban controversial French delicacy foie gras.

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Related Topix: Life, Food, Foie Gras

16 hrs ago | KWWL-TV Waterloo

Humane Society offers reward in NE Iowa pig deaths

The Humane Society of the United States is offering a reward of up to $2,500 for information leading to the arrest in the suffocation of 3,800 pigs at a hog operation near Hull in northwest Iowa.

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Related Topix: Charitable Organizations, Hull, IA, Sioux County, IA

20 hrs ago | Ventura County Star

Judge: TSA violated Rastafarian screener's rights

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission says the rights of a Rastafarian baggage screener at Boston's Logan International Airport were violated when he was threatened with firing unless he cut his hair.

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Related Topix: Law, Employment / Labor Law

Thu Nov 19, 2009

Clover Herald

Amnesty boss urges equality for poor Aborigines

Australia must abolish policies that discriminate against Aborigines in its quest to lift its indigenous population out of Third World poverty, the head of an international human rights group said Wednesday.

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Related Topix: Amnesty International, Charitable Organizations

Newkerala.com

China puts dissident student leader on trial after Obama leaves

Los Angeles, Nov.19 : US President Barack Obama may have subtly called on China to improve its human rights record and allow for greater freedom of speech during his three-day visit to Shanghai and Beijing, but that did not stop China from putting a student leader of the 1989 pro-democracy movement on trial on Thursday, a day after Obama finished ...

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Related Topix: China, World News

CBC

Activists, UN call attention to reproductive health

A health worker demonstrates the proper way to use a condom during World Population Day in the Philippines.

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Related Topix: Global Warming, Stephen Harper, North America, Canada, World News

WJHG-TV Panama City

Second Lawsuit Attacks Florda School Funding

A second lawsuit in as many weeks has accused Florida of shortchanging the state's public schools.

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Related Topix: West Palm Beach, FL, West Palm Beach Metro

CBS News

Behind Missed Gitmo Deadline: Detainees Unwanted

President Barack Obama is now confirming what many have long suspected: He will miss his January deadline to close the Guantanamo prison - partly because he cannot persuade other nations to take the detainees.

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Related Topix: US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Prison, US News, Camp Delta, Cuba, World News,

Newswatch 50

Mexico anti-abortion fight moves to federal level

MEXICO CITY a " Lawmakers in Veracruz made it Mexico's 17th state to pass legislation declaring life begins at conception, then adopted a proposal that requires Congress to consider amending the constitution to outlaw abortion.A majority of the country's 32 states have now enacted anti-abortion measures in response to Mexico City's legislature ...

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Related Topix: Abortion, World News, Mexico, Roman Catholic Church, Religion

Wed Nov 18, 2009

KFVS

Antiracists and far-right youths battle in Moscow

A simmering confrontation between far-right youths and ant-racist activists has erupted into Moscow's streets after the fatal shooting of an anti-racist activist known as the Bonebreaker.

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Related Topix: Blog News

ClipSyndicate

HSUS works to balance wild horse population

Holly Hazard of the Humane Society of the United States talks about what the organization is doing to keep the wild horse population under control.

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Related Topix: Charitable Organizations, Video, Pets

WTKR-TV Norfolk

NC lawmaker says reasoning that pigs in DC could spread swine flu a part of farmers' problems

A North Carolina congressman says police got their facts wrong when they denied a messy Capitol Hill protest against corporate hog farms out of concern about spreading swine flu.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Bob Etheridge, US House of Representatives, Democrat

The Modesto Bee

Capitol experiences minor stink over pigs

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals wanted to take a pretend pig farm with real pigs to Capitol Hill to protest how the animals are treated in big corporate hog farms.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Bob Etheridge, US House of Representatives, Democrat, Life, Food, Pork, Meat

KING-TV Seattle

Fiorina has balancing act in Calif. Senate race

In the weeks since Carly Fiorina announced her run for a California Senate seat, the former Hewlett-Packard Co.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, Representative Tom McClintock, California, California Government, HP, Computers, US Governors, Arnold Schwarzenegger

Tue Nov 17, 2009

KNDU

Chile applies dictator-era law to Indian violence

Small groups of Mapuche Indians have so rattled Chile by seizing forests, burning buses and attacking police to demand land and autonomy that the leftist government has turned to dictatorship-era measures to quell the violence.

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Related Topix: South America, Chile, World News, Michelle Bachelet, Terrorism, Yakima, WA

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Cuba dissident ends protest fast amid health rumor

A hunger strike by a Cuban dissident has been a hot story for Miami-based Spanish-language media, and concern about her health even reached the halls of the U.S. Congress, where an anti-Castro lawmaker warned that she was "close to death." But Martha Beatriz Roque's condition and the extent of her fast were not clear until the 64-year-old appeared ...

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Related Topix: US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, Lincoln Diaz-Balart, US Politics

San Diego News Network

Iran sentences 5 to death in post-election turmoil

Iran has sentenced five defendants to death in a mass trial of opposition figures accused of fomenting the unrest that followed the disputed June presidential election, state television reported Tuesday.

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Related Topix: Iran, World News, Middle East

MyFoxChicago

Ill Allows New Birth Ceritificates

Illinois has made it easier for people who have had sex reassignment surgery to change their birth certificates to reflect their new gender.

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Related Topix: Illinois, Illinois Government, ACLU, Transgendered

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