Green Inc.: Bank Won’t Finance Mine Method
The Natural Resources Defense Council persuades major bank to stop financing companies that use mountaintop-removal techniques in their mining.
Fresh links to Pakistan complicate U.S. diplomacy after Mumbai attacks
Mumbai police identified a second Pakistani terrorist as an engineer of the assaults on Mumbai last week and confirmed that they were investigating whether a Mumbai man had scoped out some of the targets the attackers struck.
The new Model T?
With the U.S. auto industry's immediate fate now resting on the amount of money that Congress place in their begging bowl, it's worth noting that cash alone is not going to save them in the long run.
Conservatives form new Anglican church
Theological conservatives estranged from the Episcopal Church in the United States and the Anglican Church in Canada formed a rival North American "province" Wednesday.
Analysis: Clinton must become an 'honest broker'
President-elect Barack Obama ended weeks of speculation by nominating Sen. Hillary Clinton as his secretary of state, choosing a onetime chief rival as his top diplomat.
Moroccan tourism grows despite crisis
Rabat, Morocco - Morocco expects the international financial crisis to boost its tourism, with European tourists now increasingly choosing the north African country over more distant destinations, Tourism Minister Mohammed Boussaid said Thursday. The
Syrian ambassador to Egypt leaves Cairo
The Syrian ambassador to Egypt has left Cairo in what some observers note is an indication of tension in Syrian-Egyptian relations. Slideshow: Yousuf Ahmad left Cairo for Damascus on Wednesday with his wife and five large suitcases, according to a UPI
Are B.C. pensions financing Sudanese genocide? By Travis Lupick
Janjaweed militia have slaughtered and raped hundreds of thousands of people in Darfur. So imagine the surprise of an activist UBC graduate when he discovered that his former instructors' pensions could be helping to fund the genocide in the western
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