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Post Views: 0 Accounts of the nation’s ‘natural captial’ meets key demand of the UN study of The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity Juliette Jowit India is set to become the first country to publish accounts of its ‘natural wealth’.
Read MoreSpending review: day of cuts begins with raid on BBC 0
Post Views: 13 Photograph gaffe reveals 490,000 public sector jobs will be lost while BBC is hit by a 16% budget cut Patrick Wintour, political editor George Osborne pictured in his office at the Treasury. Photograph: Jon Enoch Haggling over
Read MoreThe Iranian dilemma 0
Post Views: 4 If Israel were to attack Iran it would be disastrous for the US; negotiations must be the first resort. MJ Rosenberg US produced and supplied military hardware would inevitably play some role in an Israeli attack on Iran [EPA] Bruce Riedel,
Read MoreWhat’s It All About? The War on Terror 0
Post Views: 3 By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS Does anyone remember the “cakewalk war” that would last six weeks, cost $50-$60 billion, and be paid for out of Iraqi oil revenues?Does anyone remember that White House economist Lawrence Lindsey was fired
Read MorePakistan intelligence services ‘aided Mumbai terror attacks’ 0
Post Views: 3 Militant arrested last year described dozens of meetings between ISI officers and senior Lashkar-e-Taiba operatives Jason Burke Smoke and flames pour from the Taj Mahal hotel in Mumbai during the November 2008 attacks. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images Pakistan’s
Read MoreOsama bin Laden living in comfort in Pakistan, says Nato official 0
Post Views: 6 Official says al-Qaida leader was moving between houses in the far north-west of Pakistan, and ‘not living in a cave’Ewen MacAskill in Washington The Pentagon refused to confirm or deny the claim that Osama bin Laden was
Read MoreSeren Yüce unveils the herds of patriarchy in Ço?unluk 0
Post Views: 4 EM?NE YILDIRIM ?STANBUL Seren Yüce’s Alt?n Portakal-winning debut feature “Ço?unluk” (The Majority) is a hard slap in the face — a well-deserved and succinct one that reminds us of the macro social realities of Turkish society through
Read MoreDefense in Kurdish marks first day of KCK trial 0
Post Views: 9 AY?E KARABAT ANKARA The trial of the Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK), the alleged urban extension of the terrorist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), began on Monday in Diyarbak?r with many local and foreign observers closely following the
Read More‘Ten years’ to solve nature crisis, UN meeting hears 0
Post Views: 4 The UN biodiversity convention meeting has opened with warnings that the ongoing loss of nature is hurting human societies as well as the natural world. The two-week gathering aims to set new targets for conserving life on
Read MoreGerman multiculturalism ‘failing’ 0
Post Views: 4 Angela Merkel, Germany’s chancellor, has said that the country’s attempt to create a multicultural society has “utterly failed”, adding fuel to a debate over immigration and Islam which is polarising her conservative coalition. Speaking to a meeting
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