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China says wants climate deal this year: U.N.'s Ban | Green Business | ReutersChina's leaders told U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon that Beijing wants to reach a new agreement on combating climate change in Copenhagen in December, Ban said on Wednesday. "I was pleased that President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao assured me that China wants to seal a deal in ...
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U.S., China Coordinating On Climate Change : NPRPresident Obama sent two of his Cabinet secretaries to China this week to deal with the question of global warming. Both of them are of Chinese descent. That sent a ripple of interest through China's officialdom. The cabinet secretaries' mission was to make a case that China and the United ...
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BBC NEWS | Middle East | Iran executes 29 in jail hangingsReports from Iran say 29 people have been executed by hanging in Tehran. Among them were convicts found guilty of murder, rape, armed robbery and drug trafficking, state television IRIB reported on its website. All the executions took place on Sunday morning in Tehran's Evin prison, the ...
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Six U.N Human Rights experts condemn Iran for mass arrests | VANCOUVERITETuesday 7th July VANCOUVERITE High Speed News – Powered from Vancouver Home » Six U.N Human Rights experts condemn Iran for mass arrests Information Posted in Iran Special Coverage This post has no comments yet . Write your own ...
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Freedom vs. Firewalls: The Senate can help fend off authoritarian censorship - washingtonpost.comFROM TWITTERERS in Tehran to bloggers in Burma, citizens living under authoritarian regimes depend upon free access to the Internet for information, coordination and the ability to make themselves heard. That's why oppressive governments devote so much effort to online censorship: They, too, ...
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Questions About Iran? Ask a Witness. - Nicholas D. Kristof Blog - NYTimes.comQuestions About Iran? Ask a Witness. I’m delighted to welcome back Roger Cohen, my fellow Times columnist, from Iran. For the last couple of weeks, frankly, I’ve been gnashing my teeth with jealousy, both over Roger’s two-week visa to Iran (which left him there after other reporters had to ...
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Russia Seriously Concerned By Iran's Use Of Force - Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty © 2009News Russia Seriously Concerned By Iran's Use Of Force MOSCOW (Reuters) -- Russia has said it is seriously concerned by the use of force in Iran after a disputed presidential election and urged Tehran to settle all issues in a democratic way, Interfax news agency reported. "We naturally ...
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The Proxy Fight for Iranian Democracy - Renesys BlogIf you put 65 million people in a locked room, they're going to find all the exits pretty quickly, and maybe make a few of their own. In the case of Iran's crippled-but-still-connected Internet, that means finding a continuous supply of proxy servers that allow continued access to unfiltered ...
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BBC - dot.lifeIran's internet dilemma Sometimes a picture really is worth a thousand words. We've all heard about the cyber-battle between the Iranian government and opposition protestors, with a flood of information coming from Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and other social media sources, despite the ...
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High-altitude wind machines could power NYC - CNN.comThe wind blowing through the streets of Manhattan couldn't power the city, but wind machines placed thousands of feet above the city theoretically could. The first rigorous, worldwide study of high-altitude wind power estimates that there is enough wind energy at altitudes of about 1,600 to ...
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