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Australia Ranked 7th Worst Polluter on Earth
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Wednesday, 16 May 2012
Australia Ranked 7th Worst Polluter on Earth
Conservation group World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has compiled the latest report how countries balance economic growth with ecological conservation and Australia is in the top 10, closely behind the United States and the Arab nations Qatar, Kuwait, and the UAE.Read Full Article ...
 
Youths hold key to food security, UN report tells Kenya
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Wednesday, 16 May 2012
Youths hold key to food security, UN report tells Kenya
Kenya needs to provide “strategic subsidies” to farmers as well as woo young people to take up agribusiness for it to attain food security, a United Nations st...
 
Australia Ranked 7th Worst Polluter on Earth
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Wednesday, 16 May 2012
Australia Ranked 7th Worst Polluter on Earth
Conservation group World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has compiled the latest report how countries balance economic growth with ecological conservation and Australia is...
 
There's more to life than money
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Wednesday, 16 May 2012
There's more to life than money
By Cai Hong BEIJING, May 17 (Xinhuanet) -- Whenever a survey of the world's happiest country is released, European welfare states usually top the list. The fir...
 
Exclusive Iran flouts U.N. sanctions sends arms to Syria panel
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Wednesday, 16 May 2012
Exclusive Iran flouts U.N. sanctions sends arms to Syria panel
Members of the United Nations observers mission in Syria wait at a hotel lobby in Damascus, before heading to areas where protests against the regime of Syrian...
 
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