MyClipping: November 2004

The New York Times > International > Americas > Port-au-Prince Journal: Haiti's Wounds Overwhelm a Suffering Public Hospital

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BBC NEWS | World | Asia-Pacific | Hundreds die in Philippines storm: "More than 300 people are feared dead as a result of flash floods and landslides triggered by a storm in the Philippines, officials say."

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Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full News Coverage: "LONDON (Reuters) - A 'new Iron curtain' could fall across Ukraine if the West does not support the former Soviet state's democracy movement, former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has said."

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Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full News Coverage: "WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Brain scans show that the brains of people who are lying look very different from those of people who are telling the truth, U.S. researchers say."

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Yahoo! News - Vietnam Floods Kill 40, Heritage Site at Risk: "HANOI (Reuters) - At least 40 people have been killed and 42 are missing as floods and landslides swept away houses and destroyed roads across parts of Vietnam, officials said Monday."

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Yahoo! News - Japan's Supreme Court refuses compensation to South Korean war slaves: "TOKYO (AFP) - Japan's top court has a damages suit brought by South Koreans forced to work as sex slaves or soldiers by the Japanese Imperial Army, saying their suffering in World War II cannot be compensated under the post-war constitution."

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Pope Returns Relics To Orthodox Leader (washingtonpost.com): "VATICAN CITY, Nov. 27 -- Pope John Paul II on Saturday handed over the bones of two saints to Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, the spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians, in hopes that the gesture will revive talks over unifying Roman Catholicism and Orthodox Christianity, two major forces in Christendom."

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The New York Times > International > Europe > Parliament Says Votes in Ukraine Were Not Valid

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Yahoo! News - 166 Trapped in China After Mine Explosion: "BEIJING - At least 166 workers were trapped Sunday after an explosion tore through a central Chinese coal mine, sending smoke billowing from air vents, the government said. Another 127 miners escaped."

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The New York Times > International > Middle East > Insurgency: Troops Finding Scores of Bodies of Slain Iraqis: "Troops Finding Scores of Bodies of Slain Iraqis"

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Yahoo! News - China Police Said to Nab Suspected Killer: "BEIJING - Police have detained a man accused of slashing as many as nine boys to death as they slept in their high school dormitory in central China, state media reported Saturday."

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The New York Times > International > Middle East > 15 Iraqi Political Groups Call for Delaying Elections: "15 Iraqi Political Groups Call for Delaying Elections"

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BBC NEWS | World | Middle East | Iraqi parties request poll delay: "A group of leading Iraqi political parties has called for the 30 January national elections to be delayed."

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The New York Times > New York Region > 64 Degrees, 59 Balloons, and One Perfect Thanksgiving Day Parade

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President Proclaims Day of Thanksgiving (washingtonpost.com): "In keeping with the White House tradition of proclaiming a day of national thanksgiving, President Bush this week issued the following Thanksgiving Day proclamation from Crawford, Tex.:"

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ENN: Environmental News Network [[Today's News Full Story ]] Global Warming Fight To Get Harder from 2012, Says U.N.
REYKJAVIK − Fighting global warming will get tougher once the Kyoto protocol ends in 2012 and the world must try to get Washington involved in the long term, the head of the U.N. Environment Programme said on Wednesday.

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The New York Times > New York Region > For 2.5 Million, a Perfect Day for a Thanksgiving Parade

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Yahoo! News - Asia faces living nightmare from climate change: "SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The weather predictions for Asia in 2050 read like a script from a doomsday movie."

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The New York Times > National > After 4 Hurricanes, Trailers and Homelessness: "After 4 Hurricanes, Trailers and Homelessness"

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BBC NEWS | UK | Black Watch troops launch attack: "Eighty suspects have been detained by soldiers from the Black Watch regiment following a major raid on suspected insurgent villages in central Iraq."

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BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Ukraine election crisis deepens: "Ukraine's opposition is stepping up its campaign to overturn the disputed presidential poll, launching a general strike to try to paralyse the country."

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The New York Times > International > Middle East > U.S. Expanding Iraqi Offensive in Violent Area

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Iraqi minister can't guarantee election safety
Powell: Solid support for elections at Mideast conference
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Iraq's interim defense minister was quoted by an Arabic-language newspaper Tuesday as saying he cannot guarantee the safety of voters or candidates in the country's elections scheduled for January 30.

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GAVAN McCORMACK - REMILITARIZING JAPAN
Relations between Washington and Europe have been under the spotlight since 2001; less so those between the US and Japan. Koizumi’s constitution-breaking dispatch of SDF units to Iraq, and American strategies for containing China and re-arming the East Asian rim.

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Firefox cutting into IE's lead | CNET News.com: "As Firefox marks its 5 millionth download and moves to retail stores, a survey showed Microsoft's heavyweight Internet Explorer slipping below 90 percent market share."

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The New York Times > International > Middle East > Horrors: Clues on Hostages Emerge From Houses in Falluja

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BBC NEWS | World | Asia-Pacific | Koizumi warned over war shrine: "China's President Hu Jintao has told Japanese Premier Junichiro Koizumi that his visits to a key war shrine are harming bilateral ties, officials say."

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The New York Times > International > Middle East > In Falluja, Young Marines Saw the Savagery of an Urban War

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Yahoo! News - Russia, Japan fail to make progress in peace talks: "SANTIAGO (AFP) - Russian President Vladimir Putin (news - web sites) and Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi failed to make progress in a testy territorial dispute, only confirming their duty to solve the decades-long row."

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news @ nature.com - Scientists get their own Googlebreaking science news headlines "New search engine ranks papers by importance, and finds the free versions."

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5,000,000 - Spread Firefox: "The Firefox 1.0 release has just hit the 5 million download mark. We're seeing a much swifter uptake for 1.0 than for the Preview Release which took more than a month to reach 5 million downloads."

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BBC NEWS | Middle East | US may boost troop levels in Iraq: "The US army says it may send more troops to Iraq before the January elections, depending on the outcome of its offensive in Falluja."

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BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Asian giants to tackle tense ties: "Japan's PM Junichiro Koizumi is set to meet China's President Hu Jintao for the first time in over a year, in a bid to improve strained relations."

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New Zealand News - NZ - Global warming won't cause extinction, just civilisation's end: "The winner of one of New Zealand's top science medals, Professor Peter Barrett, has backed off a controversial claim that humanity faces extinction within 100 years because of global warming."

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International news from swissinfo, the Swiss news platform: "BANGKOK (Reuters) - Environmentalists have forecast a grim future for planet Earth, predicting that droughts, heatwaves and hurricanes will become increasingly common and more severe if global warming is allowed to continue unchecked."

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IOL: Environment: "Rio Cueiras, Brazil - The latest recruits to Brazil's losing battle to slow Amazon destruction began training on Wednesday at a new environmental police academy deep in the world's largest jungle."

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The Seattle Times: Nation & World: U.S. joins methane effort; McCain raps Bush on warming
WASHINGTON — Seeking to bolster its credentials on global warming, the United States signed an agreement yesterday with 13 other nations that calls for investing up to $53 million in companies that will profitably control emissions of methane, a greenhouse gas.

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news @ nature.com - Scientists get their own Googlebreaking science news headlines: "Scientists get their own Google
New search engine ranks papers by importance, and finds the free versions."

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BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Start date set for Kyoto treaty: "The Kyoto protocol on fighting climate change is to become a legally-binding treaty on 16 February, the UN has said."

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Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full News Coverage: "Kyoto Protocol ratified
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Russia has formally ratified the Kyoto Protocol on global warming, clearing the way for the international environment accord to come into force early next year."

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Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full News Coverage: "Humans were born to run
LONDON (Reuters) - Humans were born to run and evolved from ape-like creatures into the way they look today probably because of the need to cover long distances and compete for food, scientists say."

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What can YOU do to help spread Firefox? - Spread Firefox: "Here are a few suggestions that, while not reaching out to the national public like the NYT ad, might help getting people to adopt and use Firefox (who knows even spread it themselves)."

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The New York Times > International > Europe > New Nuclear Weapon to Surpass Others, Putin Says: "MOSCOW, Nov. 17 - President Vladimir V. Putin, meeting with Russia's defense officials and military commanders here, said today that the country would soon deploy new nuclear missile systems that would surpass those of any other nuclear power."

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Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full News Coverage: "BAGHDAD (Reuters) - British-Iraqi aid worker Margaret Hassan has probably been killed by kidnappers, her family said after a video apparently showing her being shot in the head was sent to an Arab television station."

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BBC NEWS | World | Americas | Condoleezza Rice 'gets key post': "US President George W Bush has chosen National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice as his new secretary of state, senior US officials in Washington say."

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BBC NEWS | World | Asia-Pacific | China plans world's tallest tower: "The southern Chinese city of Guangzhou has announced plans to build the world's tallest tower."

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The New York Times > International > Middle East > The Insurgency: Rebels Routed in Falluja; Fighting Spreads Elsewhere in Iraq

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Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full News Coverage: "NATO commander says Iraq rift threatens new missions
Mon 15 November, 2004 04:44
LONDON (Reuters) - NATO's top military commander says 10 member countries have refused to send soldiers to Iraq, raising 'worrisome' doubts over how the alliance will fight future conflicts."

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Yahoo! News - Russian Official Affirms Japan Land Deal: "MOSCOW - Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Sunday reaffirmed Moscow's adherence to a 1956 declaration in which the Soviet Union said it was ready to hand over two of the four disputed Kuril Islands to Japan."

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Description of Selected News: "China reveals official greenhouse gas emission figures for first time
BEIJING (AFP) - China officially revealed for the first time the amount of greenhouse gases it emits, as a UN official warned it could be the source of even more harmful emissions with its rapid development."

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Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full News Coverage: "Artic meltdown gathers speed
OSLO (Reuters) - Global warming is heating the Arctic almost twice as fast as the rest of the planet in a thaw that threatens millions of livelihoods and could wipe out polar bears by 2100, an eight-nation report says."

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Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Air pollution link to heart disease: "Researchers reported a link yesterday between long-term air pollution and the early stages of artery disease in people long before they showed obvious symptoms."

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Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full News Coverage: "WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush has set a four-year goal of seeing a Palestinian state established and he and Prime Minister Tony Blair vowed to mobilise international support to help make it happen now that Yasser Arafat is dead."

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6 Time Management Tips for Bloggers: "Not enough time to blog? Here are some ideas to help you stay on track with blogging."

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BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Japan struggles for place in the world: "In the last of a special series on Japan, BBC News Online's Sarah Buckley reports on Japan's changing attitudes to its role in global security."

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FEMA: Hurricane homeless rising 100 a day ORLANDO, Florida (AP) -- The number of Floridians left homeless by hurricanes is growing by as much as 100 people per day three months after the first of four storms hit the state, a Federal Emergency Management Agency official said.

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BBC NEWS | World | Asia-Pacific | Japan says mystery sub Chinese: "Japan has identified a submarine which was spotted inside its waters on Wednesday as Chinese."

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news @ nature.com - Music mirrors tone patterns in our speechbreaking science news headlines: "Classic English and French composers influenced by their language."

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BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Lithuania backs EU constitution: "Lithuania, one of 10 countries to join the EU in May, has become the first of the union's 25 member states to approve the new EU constitution."

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Blogbox.com: "Blogboxes provide exciting, instantly deployed functionality for your blog or Web site. They are free for non-commercial use."

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PCWorld.com - Mozilla Mulls Desktop Search Features for Firefox Browser

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Vivisimo and Bloglines Release Extensions for Mozilla Firefox - MozillaZine Talkback

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The New York Times > International > Middle East > Falluja Battle Rages On; Group Kidnaps 2 Relatives of Allawi

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Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full News Coverage Falluja rages as PM relatives seized

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CNN.com - Iraq PM's relatives kidnapped - Nov 10, 2004