Hot water for the Twalas, hot debate at Copenhagen

The shopping list includes wind farms, seawalls and even real estate — new homelands for flooded-out islanders. And poor countries want to present the bill to the rich at next week's climate talks in Copenhagen.

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Obama's prepared remarks for U.N. speech

U.S. President Barack Obama addresses the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday and challenges leaders to take responsibility for challenges facing the world.

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Nations allowing gays to serve openly in military

Nations that allow gays and lesbians to serve openly in their armed forces, as compiled by the Palm Center at the University of California, Santa Barbara:

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Bush invites world leaders to Washington summit

President Bush on Wednesday invited leaders of the Group of 20 participants to a summit in Washington on Nov. 15 on the global economic crisis. The G-20 members are:

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Ukraine, other small nations face crisis alone

While the world's economic giants may have averted financial collapse through rescue plans and huge infusions of cash, some smaller countries like Ukraine seem to have stumbled with little help on the horizon.

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Other New States Hint at Kosovo's Future

On Sunday, Kosovo was born, becoming the 21st century's third new nation. The two other infant states, East Timor and Montenegro, present it with starkly contrasting examples of the challenges that lie ahead.

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U.S. Draws Negative Ratings in Poll

Israel, Iran and the United States were the countries with the most negative image in a globe-spanning survey of attitudes toward 12 major nations. Canada and Japan came out best in the poll, released Tuesday.

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How long are we going tocontinue being a part of an organization that is run by despots? A blog from the Telegraph, UK

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Shouted at, spat at and even attacked, overweight people are campaigning for laws to protect them. Why is "fattism" seen by many as an acceptable prejudice?

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The vote to back a sweeping overhaul of the nation's healthcare system clears the way for a historic congressional showdown this fall over how Americans receive and pay for their medical care.

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This week, the U.S., Germany, and members of the UN Security Council will meet with Iran to try to resolve outstanding issues. This article lists a number of things people tend to think they know about Iran, but for which the evidence is shaky.

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The "Ring of Steel" security plan is coming to midtown Manhattan. The Empire State Bldg., Grand Central Terminal, and the United Nations will be surrounded with cameras, license plate readers, and chemical weapons detectors under the new plan to go into effect by 2011.

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Foreign leaders will look for American leadership and effectiveness at a full schedule of events this week. On Tuesday. Obama will attend UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's meeting on global warming...

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Orlando identical twins Dante and Donte Hall, accused partners in a deadly robbery three years ago in Lake County, could both land on death row, a fate that would make them doubly unique.

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Tesla Motors, Being Green Does Not Have To Be Boring

Tesla Motors, Being Green Does Not Have To Be Boring

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The United States is one of few democratic nations that place on individuals the entire burden of registering to vote on individual citizens. Today, one-quarter to one-third of all eligible Americans remain unregistered — and thus are unable to cast ballots that will count.

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"NATIONS are notions. A constitution comes second or fourth or nowhere. Some countries, like England, manage without one."

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There are many, many ways I can think of that women are not yet equal to men. We still only make a fraction of what men do on a per-dollar basis. (76 cents I believe?) We are not allowed into full combat in the military.

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The paper is aged and fragile, the typewritten letters slowly fading. But US Military Intelligence report EW-Pa 128 is as chilling now as the day it was written in November 1944.

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The confusion about most corrupted nation

I thought about the word.It came to my mind that corruption means lack of integrity or honesty (especially susceptibility to bribery); use of a position of trust for dishonest gain.Now I observe every one tops Somalia on the top.In Asia Pacific some makes India ,China top.But ple …

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Alice Nez Horseherder, 102 Year Old Navajo Woman, Shares the Art of Weaving

Alice Nez Horseherder, a Navajo sheep herder her entire life, lives in Hard Rock, Arizona in the the Black Mesa Region.

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A pandering Obama praised Europe's 'leading role in the world.' Actually, Europe exercises almost no leadership, even in Europe.

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WASHINGTON – The Pentagon is questioning how China intends to use its rapidly expanding military power, including what it calls some "disruptive military technologies."

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Time to put a crescent moon on the UN flag? Christopher Hitchens on the defamation of religion. Excommunicated for helping a child have an abortion

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With liberal Democrats in power in both the White House and Congress, Ban can afford to laugh; he and the U.N.'s Third World majority are confident that in the coming years no John Bolton or Jeane Kirkpatrick will be holding them to much account.

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"President Barack Obama's Interview With Mulims World."

I sincerely applaud President Obama's gesture of reaching out to more than 1 billion Muslims through his first interview with Islamic television net work.

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WASHINGTON, DC, March 10, 2009 (ENS) - President Barack Obama and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today agreed on the potential for stepped up cooperation between the United Nations and the United States on climate change.

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More than 2,100 civilians Afghanistan in 2008, a 40 percent rise from the previous year, the United Nations said Tuesday. (Reuters)

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The Demagogic Deceptions of Bush and Gore

During the 2000 Presidential campaign, third party presidential candidates Patrick J. Buchanan and Ralph Nadir consistently argued that there was little difference between the two major candidates; Republican George W. Bush and Democrat Al Gore.

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Arab nations demanded Saturday that the United Nations Security Council call for an immediate cease-fire following Israel's launch of a ground offensive in Gaza, a view echoed by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

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Sacre bleu – it's not only their baguettes that are the longest! French men have the lengthiest and thickest penises in the EU, according to a new study.

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"The price of oil is down dramatically, from a record high of $147 a barrel earlier this year to less than $55 in recent days. And analysts say this is having an impact on petroleum-producing countries that have used oil revenues to further their ideological ambitions.

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