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2008 Beijing Summer Olympics can boost development and peace, UN envoy says

UN, 3 years, 3 months, 6 days, 18 hours, 2 minutes ago
Beijing - Next summer's Beijing Olympics provides a unique opportunity for the United Nations to promote development and peace-building activities, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's Special Adviser on Sport for Development and Peace said today.


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Crane hatching marks a first for Smithsonian’s National Zoo

Smithsonian, 3 years, 3 months, 1 week, 3 days, 19 hours, 2 minutes ago
Washington, DC - Smithsonian's National Zoo has announced a first in its 118-year history -- the hatching of a rare wattled crane chick.


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KENYA: Slum-dwellers to benefit from housing fund

IRIN, 3 years, 3 months, 1 week, 3 days, 19 hours, 2 minutes ago
Nairobi - Millions of people living in urban slums throughout the world are set to benefit from the pro-poor housing fund set up by UN-Habitat and its partners, a senior UN official said on Friday.


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Plastic solar cell efficiency breaks record at Wake Forest Nanotechnology Center

Wake Forest University, 3 years, 3 months, 1 week, 4 days, 17 hours, 2 minutes ago
Winston-Salem, NC - Researchers at Wake Forest University's Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials have doubled the efficiency of organic or flexible, plastic solar cells in just two years. The new record set at Wake Forest is more than 6 percent efficiency.


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EPA, NRDC Sign Pledge to Green Cities, Prevent Pollution

NRDC, 3 years, 3 months, 1 week, 4 days, 19 hours, 2 minutes ago
Pittsburgh, PA - The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) signed a statement of intent today to pursue “green infrastructure” approaches to reduce sewer overflows and stormwater pollution.


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Uganda - Sudan: Renewed truce raises optimism over future talks

IRIN, 3 years, 3 months, 1 week, 6 days, 16 hours, 56 minutes ago
Kampala - The renewed truce between the Ugandan government and the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) has boosted hopes that upcoming talks between the two may finally end the conflict in northern Uganda, a senior official said on Monday.


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Ban Ki-moon welcomes Sudanese acceptance of UN help to African mission in Darfur

United Nations, 3 years, 3 months, 1 week, 6 days, 17 hours, 4 minutes ago
Darfur, SUdan - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the Security Council today welcomed Sudan's announcement confirming that it accepts the entire "heavy support package" of troops, police officers, civilian staff and equipment which the United Nations will provide to the African Union (AU) peacekeeping mission in the violence-wracked Darfur region.


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Six million children in DPR Korea immunized against measles

ReliefWeb, 3 years, 3 months, 2 weeks, 2 days, 21 hours, 45 minutes ago
South Hamyong, DPR Korea - A massive campaign to immunize children against measles in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea has been completed by the government with help from UNICEF and the World Health Organization (WHO).


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Turtle poachers apprehended in Malaysia

World Wildlife Fund, 3 years, 3 months, 2 weeks, 3 days, 16 hours, 44 minutes ago
Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia - Malaysian authorities seize several Chinese fishing boats off the northern coast of Borneo carrying cargoes of endangered marine turtles.


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Supreme Court Ruling Removes Obstacle to California Clean Cars Law; Justices Say Heat-Trapping Carbo

NRDC, 3 years, 3 months, 3 weeks, 1 day, 16 hours, 2 minutes ago
SAN FRANCISO (April 2, 2007) – Today’s ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court affirming that heat-trapping carbon dioxide does indeed meet the legal definition of ‘pollutant’ under the Clean Air Act helps significantly clear the way for California to implement its landmark 2002 Clean Cars Law, AB 1493, and means that a related lawsuit by automakers challenging the California law should be dismissed, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). On January 16 a federal judge in Fresno had put on hold the automakers’ lawsuit pending the outcome of the Supreme Court case.


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