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• Obama refuses to sign landmine treaty

  
  Corrente — Authority: 626
  AP : The Obama administration has decided not to sign an international convention banning land mines. State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said Tuesday that the administration recently completed a review and decided not to change the Bush-era policy. [...]More than 150 countries have agreed to the Mine Ban Treatys ...
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• Cartagena opens with US still considering landmine treaty

  
  GenevaLunch — Authority: 521
  Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - The United States heads into the Cartagena Summit, which opens Sunday 29 November in Colombia, now saying that it is continuing to review its policy on signing the international Mine Ban treaty. The US is sending a sizeable official observer team to the summit, with groups from the ...
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• Maoist killed, seven arrested in Chhattisgarh

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  Raipur, Nov 27 (IANS) A Maoist was killed and seven rebels arrested after a gun battle with security forces in Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada district Friday, officials said.A team of paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and state police exchanged gunfire with Maoists at Hiroli in Dantewada district in which ...
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• Flirting Tips for Guys - Top 3 Tips That Work!

  
  3stepADS - Free Advertising Blog — Authority: 585
  With so many women around, you would think that dating was something  that came naturally to all men, but this is definately not the case and getting  effective flirting tips for guys will help you navigate the landmines of dating.The following three tips come from a women and apparently are the most important three ...
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• Massive security ahead of ULFA’s protest day in Assam

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  Guwahati, Nov 27 (IANS) A massive security alert was sounded in Assam Friday, a day ahead of the ‘black day’ by the outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) to protest the first military offensive launched against the outfit in 1990.“We are taking no chances as the ULFA in the past struck at vital ...
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• Obama administration backtracks on land mine ban

  
  The Political Carnival — Authority: 679
  By GottaLaff Yesterday I posted a report that the U.S. would not sign on to a land mine ban. Not so fast, says the Obama administration: But in a statement Wednesday, Kelly said that there had been only a partial review concerning who would represent the United States at a conference on the international ...
  2 days ago

• The Environmental Issues – Appropriate conservation and sustainable development strategies attempt to recognize this as being integral to any approach.

  
  WERI CHANNEL — Authority: 123
  Nature and Animal Conservation        Preserving species and their habitats is important for ecosystems to self-sustain themselves. Yet, the pressures to destroy habitat for logging, illegal hunting, and other challenges are making conservation a struggle. Visit : http://www.globalissues.org/article/1… ...
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• Obama administration will not sign land mine ban

  
  The Political Carnival — Authority: 679
  By GottaLaff A BushCo policy lives on: The Obama administration has decided not to sign an international convention banning land mines. State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said Tuesday that the administration recently completed a review and decided not to change the Bush-era policy. Patrick Leahy was ...
  3 days ago

• U.S. Won’t Join Landmine Ban

  
  Disinformation — Authority: 143
  Charley Keyes writes on CNN : The United States won’t join its NATO allies and many other countries in formally banning landmines, State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said during his midday briefing Tuesday. “This administration undertook a policy review and we decided our landmine policy remains in ...
  3 days ago

• Finding Traction on Colombia

  
  FORpeace - the blog of the Fellowship of Reconciliation — Authority: 122
  Mark Beachs account and associated links are a very helpful review of the attention by delegates from 80 countries at the World Council of Churches UN Advocacy Week to the issues related to Colombia which we might expect governments at the United Nations to attend to, but which they do not.  World Council of ...
  4 days ago

• US: Ban Landmines

  
  AlertNet Newsdesk — Authority: 720
  Source: Human Rights Watch (Washington, DC) - The United States should commit to join the international treaty banning antipersonnel landmines when it attends a milestone meeting of the agreement beginning November 29, 2009, ...
  5 days ago

• US: Ban Landmines

  
  http://www.hrw.org/en/news — Authority: 690
  (Washington, DC) - The United States should commit to join the international treaty banning antipersonnel landmines when it attends a milestone meeting of the agreement beginning November 29, 2009, Human Rights Watch said today. read more
  5 days ago

• Glowing bacteria that finds landmines

  
  Boing Boing — Authority: 889
  Edinburgh University engineers have a plan to use genetically engineered bacteria that glow in the presence of explosives to detect landmines. The project is student-led, overseen by Alistair Elfick. The bugs can be mixed into a colourless solution, which forms green patches when sprayed onto ground where mines are ...
  1 week ago

• NATO to fund new landmine education project

  
  Mission & Justice — Authority: 149
  20/11/09Jordan and the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) on Thursday signed an agreement to launch a new trust fund to execute an education programme on landmines and explosive remnants of war. Under the accord, signed during a ceremony held at the alliance’s headquarters in Brussels, the NATO Maintenance ...
  1 week ago

• Be careful while in Sri Lanka, US says

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  Colombo, Nov 20 (IANS) The security situation in Sri Lanka has improved since the defeat of the Tamil Tigers but Americans travelling to the country should remain careful, the US said Friday.“The Department of State warns US citizens about the risks of travel to Sri Lanka due to continued security concerns, ...
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• BioBricked bacteria glow in the presence of landmines

  
  Futurismic — Authority: 611
  An alarmingly large amount of the world’s surface is strewn with landmines left behind after conflicts of one sort or another , leaving the locals at risk of death and mutilation long after the dispute that caused them to be laid down has ended (or moved elsewhere). Scouting for landmines is a risky job for humans ...
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• LAO PDR: We feel safer now

  
  AlertNet Newsdesk — Authority: 720
  MAG (Mines Advisory Group) "I am 61 years old. It is hard for me to walk all day up a steep mountainside to my paddy field like before!" says Ten, with a smile.Ten is smiling because he no longer has to walk for a whole day ...
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• Become A Hit, Not A Miss Online

  
  Free Internet Marketing Information — Authority: 161
  As time passes, the Net is becoming a larger and bigger phenomenon. More and more people in their thousands are trying the Internet to make their American dream a reality. As great as the Internet has been for useful information, it unfortunately is also home to absolute garbage, junk, viruses, spam and useless ...
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• Saving millions of lives: Bacteria that light up around Landmines!

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 571
  Landmines are arguably the gravest threat to both humans and wildlife alike in almost 87 countries across the planet and with war times long behind us the ugly scars and the undetonated landmines still haunt those who wish to put the past behind them. In countries such as Sri Lanka over 20 elephants each year are ...
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• Bacteria Glow Near Landmines

  
  War News Updates — Authority: 503
  From The Telegraph: Bacteria that glow green in the presence of explosives could provide a cheap and safe way to find hidden landmines, according to British scientists. The bugs can be mixed into a colourless solution that forms green patches when sprayed on to ground where mines are buried. Researchers who ...
  1 week ago

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