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April 17, 2008

Amid Food Crisis, Opposition to Biofuels Grows

by Kathleen Moore, Radio Free Europe, Czech Republic - In the last few years, biofuels have been viewed as a way to meet rising energy demands, as well as climate-change goals to reduce harmful emissions. But amid skyrocketing food prices and food riots in several poor countries, those benefits increasingly are being questioned.

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With Angola Vote, the World Hopes for Stability

by Celia W. Dugger, International Herald Tribune, France - More than eight million people have registered to vote in Angola, a country with as much...

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by Loune Viaud and Monika Kalra Varma, Jordan Times, Jordan - In 2001, US officials threatened to use their influence to stop previously approved IDB...

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by Bonnie Docherty, Jurist, USA - "Russia has not only caused civilian casualties with its use of cluster munitions in Georgia, but it has also...

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by Tahmima Anam, Guardian, UK - Climate change means that millions of people now face the risk of catastrophic flooding, but few more so than...

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by Rachel Ament, Jerusalem Post, Israel - In the 1970s, the kibbutz movement began to suffer in Israel as young people moved to the big...