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Sharks
113 nations have signed on to conserve migratory shark species. This is being heralded as a landmark decision.
On the flip side we have seen this kind of thing before.
Nations banding together to work long ranging plans for animal conservation and who fall foul to enforcement issues or internal pressures from commercial fishing interests.
In short, while [...]
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Israel
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society has charged Israel with launching hundreds of attacks against Palestinian medical teams in 2009.
The aid group, also known as PRCS, said that the Israeli troops fired 15 times at ambulances in the West Bank and Gaza last year, killing one medical worker and wounding 10 more.
The PRCS also said that [...]
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Haiti
Haitian authorities say more than 150,000 bodies have been buried in Haiti since the devastating January 12th earthquake. Haiti’s Communications Minister Marie-Laurence Jocelyn Lassegue suggested the death toll could rise to 300,000. Lassegue said, “Nobody knows how many bodies are buried in the rubble.” As many as 800,000 Haitians are now homeless in the capital [...]
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We Send Doctors, Not Soldiers
By Fidel Castro
25 January, 2010
Cuba.cu / Countercurrents
In my Reflection of January 14, two days after the catastrophe in Haiti, which destroyed that neighboring sister nation, I wrote: “In the area of healthcare and others the Haitian people has received the cooperation of Cuba, even though this is a small and blockaded country. Approximately 400 doctors [...]
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Haiti
Haitian native Wyclef Jean spent Thursday clearing bodies from the streets of Port-au-Prince, as he called for the government to impose a state of emergency and warned of impending chaos.
Yéle Haiti has pulled together a group of like minded organizations and first responders in order to help coordinate the delivery of emergency services and materials [...]
Cuba is Missing…From US Reports on the International Response to Haiti’s Earthquake
Dave Lindorff/OpEdNews
There are only two US media outlets that have reported on Cuba’s response to the deadly 7.0 earthquake that hit Haiti. One was Fox News, which claimed, wrongly, that the Cubans were absent from the list of neighboring Caribbean countries providing aid. The other was theChristian Science Monitor(a respected news organization that recently shut [...]
Fox News: US could send Haitian refugees to Gitmo
John Byrne/Rawstory
Just when you thought the situation at Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba couldn’t get more complicated, a new report claims that the US is considering hosting homeless Haitian refugees at the suspected terrorist naval prison.
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Afghanistan
Three rockets were fired Friday at a building in the western Afghan city of Herat that has been leased as the site of a future U.S. consulate, Afghanistan police said.No casualties were reported.One rocket hit the building, a former hotel, shattering windows, while the two others landed nearby, said Rahmatullah Sediqi, the deputy provincial police [...]
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Yemen
Yemen’s government is to allow the US to set up a military base on its territory, a political analyst says. The US can no longer rely on Yemen’s government to fight al-Qaeda because it is losing its legitimacy and becoming weaker, Ali Al-Ahmed, a political analyst, told Press TV on Wednesday. Al-Ahmed added that his [...]
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