Experts on the chances of a global climate deal working in Mexico in 2010 The Guardian | Politicians, climate negotiators, scientists and NGO experts on the outlook for a global climate change deal | After 'Hopenhagen' ended in disappointment, what are the chances of a global deal succeeding? Photograph: Ogilvy | With the rancour of the failed Copenhagen climate talks still fresh, the...
Haitian infants need breast milk The News & Observer | RALEIGH -- North Carolina now has another way to help the people of Haiti. | The ravaged country needs nursing mothers to donate breast milk for its smallest and weakest infants - and WakeMed, home to one of only nine milk banks in the country, is soliciting donors. | Last week, several national g...
Davos leaders, CEOs debate climate change moves The State | DAVOS, Switzerland -- Fighting global warming and protecting the environment dominated the discussions Friday at the World Economic Forum, a month after U.N. climate change talks ended without a binding deal on curbing greenhouse gas emissions. | Mexican President Felipe Calderon, whose country is...
Cuba: A Castro Comrade Is Replaced The New York Times | A general who as a teenager fought alongside Fidel Castro has been replaced as the official in charge of Cuba’s airlines and airports, according to a statement in the Communist Party newspaper Granma. The general, Rogelio Acevedo, 68, was rep...
Guatemala Closer to Extraditing Ex-President to US The New York Times | Filed at 8:40 p.m. ET | GUATEMALA CITY (AP) -- Guatemala is a step closer to extraditing former President Alfonso Portillo to the United States to face money laundering charges. | Chief prosecutor Amilcar Velasquez says the Mexican government appro...
Cuba Replaces Head of Civil Aviation The New York Times | Filed at 2:03 p.m. ET | HAVANA (AP) -- Cuba has replaced the official who oversees the country's airlines and airports, a general who fought alongside Fidel Castro and Ernesto ''Che'' Guevara as a teenager, according to a terse statement in officia...
House considers tax break for Chile donations CNN March 9, 2010: 1:26 PM ET | NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Taxpayers may still be able to deduct last-minute donations to Chile earthquake relief from their 2009 taxes, if a bipartisan bill introduced in the House on Tuesday is signed into law. | Two rep...
Peru Lifts Some Machu Picchu Claims Against Yale The New York Times | Filed at 11:40 a.m. ET | NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) -- Peru has voluntarily agreed to withdraw fraud and conspiracy allegations it made against Yale University in a lawsuit seeking the return of Inca artifacts removed from Machu Picchu nearly a century ...
9th US Missionary Freed in Haiti, Returns Home The New York Times | Filed at 2:06 a.m. ET | PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) -- A U.S. missionary held for more than a month in Haiti on kidnapping charges flew back to the United States after being released from prison, while the leader of her Baptist group remained in cus...
Raley’s collects $150,000 for Haiti The Business Review Sponsored by | Send this story to a friend | Email address of friend (insert comma between multiple addresses): Your email address: Add a brief note: | Enter words from the security image above: | | | reCAPTCHA™ | Nearly $150,000 has been raise...
American Missionary Freed in Haiti The New York Times | Filed at 11:38 p.m. ET | PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) -- One of two Baptist missionaries still held on kidnapping charges in Haiti was released and flew to Miami on Monday, but the U.S. group's leader remained in custody. | Charisa Coulter, 24, was t...
Brazil's Silva: A Rousseff win would KO machismo The Press Democrat | President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva told The Associated Press on Tuesday that Dilma Rousseff, currently his chief of staff, would carry on his legacy of boosting the economy while helping the poor. He rejected criticism that she isn't qualified because she has never been elected to office. | "If Dilma wasn't capable, if she had problems, I wouldn...
EU faces court challenge over biofuels reports Daily Star Lebanon | Wednesday, March 10, 2010 | - Powered by | Pete Harrison | Reuters | BRUSSELS: Four environmental groups have sued the EU’s executive for withholding documents they say will add to a growing dossier of evidence that biofuels harm the environment and push up food prices. | The lawsuit, lodged with the European Union’s General Court, th...
Brazil's Silva: A Rousseff win would KO machismo The Boston Globe | BRASILIA, Brazil-Brazil's president said his hand-picked candidate to succeed him in October's election would help do away with machismo by becoming the first female president of Latin America's largest and most influential nation. | President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva told The Associated Press on Tuesday that Dilma Rousseff, currently his chief ...
