Bush Prods Saudi Arabia On Oil Prices Saudi Arabia’s oil minister appeared to rebuff the president’s appeal to consider the cost to the U.S. economy.... Read Full Article Troops Fire On Rioters In Somalia, Killing 2 Tens of thousands of people were protesting soaring food prices in the Somali capital.... Read Full Article Really?: The Claim: Cold Water Boils More Quickly Than Hot Water. Is it at all possible for cold water to cook faster than hot?... Read Full Article European Bank Holds Interest Rates Steady The central bank stuck by its upbeat view of the region’s economy, despite the credit squeeze that has roiled financial markets. The Bank of England also left rates unchanged.... Read Full Article Industry Tells Brumby To Dig Deep A tougher and more decisive government with the mettle to push through major projects is what business wants from new Victorian Premier John Brumby.... Read Full Article |
Eradication NewsWorld Briefing | Americas: Ecuador Sues Colombia Over Coca SprayingEcuador filed a lawsuit against Colombia in an international court, seeking to end Colombia’s fumigation of coca crops along the border. Ecuador says that the aerial herbicide spraying also kills legal crops in Ecuador and that it sickens Ecuadoreans living near the border. Faced with previous complaints, Colombia had recently increased manual eradication of coca plants as part of an antinarcotics program financed by the United States. The lawsuit, filed in the International Court of Justice in The Hague, followed a raid by Colombian forces on March 1 on Colombian guerrillas in Ecuador.Read Full Article Vaccination: Global Update | Torn by Fighting, Two Countries Fall Behind in Campaign Against PolioFighting in Afghanistan and Pakistan meant that polio eradication did not go well in those countries in 2007, a report said last week.Read Full Article Polio in Nigeria Traced to Mutating VaccineFurther vaccinations are seen as the only remedy for the outbreak, which has raised concerns that it will be a new setback for troubled eradication efforts in Nigeria.Read Full Article Eradication of poppies ’will spark retribution’British soldiers in Afghanistan have been warned to expect a fierce Taleban backlash from renewed efforts to quash the narcotics trade....Read Full Article World Briefing | Asia: Afghanistan: Government Opens Door to Poppy SprayingThe government said it would use ground spraying to reduce the poppy crop but did not say where or when. It has resisted chemical spraying in favor of persuasion combined with eradication campaigns by local police officers, who break up poppy crops with tractors or cut them down. But 2006 brought a record harvest of more than 6,600 tons of opium, a 49 percent increase over the year before and well above the previous record of 5,070 tons. Over the weekend, President Hamid Karzai removed the governor and deputy governor of Helmand, the biggest poppy-producing province by far.Read Full Article External News for: eradicationLloyd's Appeals Ruling on Colombian Drug Eradication Liability - BloombergLloyd's Appeals Ruling on Colombian Drug Eradication LiabilityBloomberg... that assigned them liability for legal costs tied to more than 3000 people seeking damages from a US-sponsored plan to eradicate drugs in Colombia. ...Lloyd's Appeals Ruling on Colombian Drug Eradication Liability - BloombergLloyd's Appeals Ruling on Colombian Drug Eradication LiabilityBloomberg... that assigned them liability for legal costs tied to more than 3000 people seeking damages from a US-sponsored plan to eradicate drugs in Colombia. ...Eradication Season Ends with Record Numbers - Santa Barbara EdhatKVECEradication Season Ends with Record NumbersSanta Barbara EdhatSanta Barbara—The Santa Barbara Sheriff's Department has completed a record year for marijuana eradication in Santa Barbara County. ...SB Plunders Pot ProducersDaily NexusLots of Pot Seized on Central Coast This YearKVECSheriff seizes record number of pot plantsThe Daily Soundall 4 news articles »Lloyd's Appeals Ruling on Colombian Drug Eradication Liability - BloombergLloyd's Appeals Ruling on Colombian Drug Eradication LiabilityBloomberg... that assigned them liability for legal costs tied to more than 3000 people seeking damages from a US-sponsored plan to eradicate drugs in Colombia. ...Eradication Season Ends with Record Numbers - Santa Barbara EdhatKVECEradication Season Ends with Record NumbersSanta Barbara EdhatSanta Barbara—The Santa Barbara Sheriff's Department has completed a record year for marijuana eradication in Santa Barbara County. ...SB Plunders Pot ProducersDaily NexusLots of Pot Seized on Central Coast This YearKVECSheriff seizes record number of pot plantsThe Daily Soundall 4 news articles »People power crucial in Indonesia anti-graft fight - The Malaysian InsiderSydney Morning HeraldPeople power crucial in Indonesia anti-graft fightThe Malaysian Insider... while ordinary Indonesians have taken to the streets to protest against the claimed victimisation of the state's Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) ...ANALYSIS: Indonesians fret as president waffles over graft scandalMonsters and Critics.comCorruption scandal tests Indonesia's YudhoyonoAFPPresident swept up in Indonesian corruption scandalSydney Morning HeraldStraits Times -Waspada Online -AsiaOneall 48 news articles » |
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