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(Photo: UN)Thousands flee DR Congo violence
Violence erupted again in the north-eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) as Lendu militia, who were driven out of Bunia yesterday by rival Hema fighters, have regrouped and launched a counter-offensive to regain control of the town, the United ...Full Story

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(Photo: UN / JC McIlwaine)Gay African refugees face abduction, violence and rape in Uganda and Kenya
Gay African refugees face abduction, violence and rape in Uganda and Kenya ...Full Story

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Pranab Mukherjee voices concern over Parliamentary disruptions
| Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday expressed concern over frequent disruption of Parliamentary proceedings. | He said while everybody had the right to freedom of expression, it should not impinge upon the right of others to speak. | Delivering a lectu...Full Story
UN Rome-Based Agencies Welcome G8 Food Security Commitment
[FAO] "Agriculture is a powerful tool for reducing poverty and hunger. Events of recent years - such as food price increases, droughts, growing climate change impacts and other emergencies - have put agriculture high on the international agenda. We should be clear that ...Full Story
More sunshine and warmth today in Cleveland
| Good morning, Cleveland.  Our morning temperatures have already reached the middle to upper 60s in some spots across the region.  By lunchtime, we should be in the lower 70s under plenty of sunshine.  Our peak high temperature should hit 75 degrees by 4 p.m. | Toni...Full Story
NOAA Forecast for 2012 East Coast Hurricane Season
The official start of Hurricane Season is just around the corner on June 1st. Most forecast outlets are predicting a less active season than we had last year in the Atlantic. In 2011, there were 19 named storms total, with 7 making hurricane status...4 of those being ma...Full Story
NOAA’s Hurricane forecast for the 2012 season to be released on the 24th
The official start of Hurricane Season is just around the corner on June 1st. Most forecast outlets are predicting a less active season than we had last year in the Atlantic. In 2011, there were 19 named storms total, with 7 making hurricane status...4 of those being ma...Full Story
Cijeruk's 10 Day Sukhoi Nightmare
Cijeruk, Bogor. For one week, the quiet village of Cijeruk, at the foot of Mount Salak, transformed from a sleepy farming village to a bustling site. | The area teemed with rescue officials, journalists and curious onlookers observing each step of the arduous rescue mis...Full Story
90+ Today, Cool/Foul Sunday (how "Tornado-Wise" are you? Take the quiz)
| 93 F. record high in the Twin Cities Friday, breaking the old record of 91, set in 1911. | 70 F. average high for May 18. | 73 F. high temperature on May 18, 2011. | 16% relative humidity yesterday at 5 pm. The low dew points/humidity levels made the 90-degree heat to...Full Story
AMBER, weather alerts coming to cellphones
| Helpful Links The City Blog | In case you missed it when we posted this on Friday, we have a full Neighbor News Blog | The Historical Aircraft Squadron Museum at the Fairfield County Airport will mark Armed Forces Day on Saturday with a free open house from 7 a.m. to ...Full Story
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Sat 19 May 2012
Are Americans Catching On, Waking Up, Unplugging?
Pakalert Press Share | In response to the question in the title I can report that most of my readers are. Almost everyone got the point of the last column. They see the absurdity of the government’s claim that the identity of the tough, macho Navy Seals, who alle...
Feature Report: Legitimizing Global Tyranny: How Theorizing Snake-Oil Salesmen Sell World Government
Pakalert Press Share | Jurriaan Maessen | ExplosiveReports | Gideon Rachman’s 2008 article titled ‘And now for a world government’ and, more recently, Scientific American- editor Gary Stix’s piece Effective World Government Will be Needed to Stave Off Clima...
18 Signs That The Banking Crisis In Europe Has Just Gone From Bad To Worse
Pakalert Press Share | With each passing day, the banking crisis in Europe escalates.  European banks are having their credit ratings downgraded in waves, bond yields are soaring and billions of euros are being pulled out of banks all across the eurozone.  The si...
Senegal cattle dying, fields scorched amid drought
Yahoo Daily News | In the northeastern nook of Senegal, one of the most stable and developed nations in the drought-hit Sahel region, carcasses of cattle lie in the sun, the fields have withered and food depleted. | As scanty rains wreaked havoc across the belt, hitt...
IITM takes up climate study aiming better crop, water resources
The Times Of India SHARE | AND | DISCUSSTweetPUNE: Weather scientists at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology are studying high resolution climate projections over South Asian Monsoon region which is expected to contribute to future crop and water management an...
California in path of tsunami debris field, NOAA unprepared
The Examiner | A large oceanic debris field from the tsunami caused by Japan's 2011 9.0 earthquake is approaching the U.S.west coast, and NOAA says it has no cleanup plan in place to deal with it.  For the past 14 months a massive floating landfill including par...
Weather Channel expert to head hurricane center
Herald Tribune | MIAMI - Richard Knabb, the tropical weather expert at The Weather Channel, will be the next chief of the U.S. government's hurricane forecasting hub in Florida, federal officials said Friday. The promotion to director of the National Hurricane Cent...
Here is my Forecast for the Summer and the 2012 Tropical Season
The Examiner | Last summer a large section of the country east of the Rockies experienced a warmer than normal summer. There was scorching heat in the Southern Plains with the record warmest summer season ever for New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana. The so...
Appreciating our military personnelEditorial
Tampa Bay Online | In March 2011 Allied nations resolved to stop the troops of Libya's tyrant Moammar Gadhafi from slaughtering civilians in his desperate bid to hold onto power. | Active-duty and reserve Air Force personnel serving at MacDill Air Force Base immediat...
Heat safety awareness: time to prep for high temps
The Examiner | NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) and the National Weather Service have declared May 25, Heat Safety Awareness Day. Already this year two children in Missouri and Texas have died from hyperthermia after being left in vehicles. ...
Refugee Farmers Find Solace in a Floodplain
The New York Times | BURLINGTON, Vt. — Unpredictability has been a life companion for Clothilde Ntahomvukiye and her fellow refugee farmers from Burundi, who were out clearing stubborn hillocks of weeds and dandelions with hand hoes the other day in a spring driz...
Thousands flee DR Congo violence
Al Jazeera | Fighting between government troops and rebels has displaced hundreds of thousands people in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). | The fighting has been most intense in the hills of the North Kivu region. | Many of the refugees have he...
High-flyers turn hunger strikers after Dubai desert dream ends in jail
The Independent | Safi Qurashi, once a millionaire British property magnate, is one of around 20 expats who have gone nearly a month without food in Al Awir Prison in the hope that their protest will bring about a change in laws that criminalise the bouncing of a ch...
President quick to overturn ban on gay acts
The Independent | Malawi faced international condemnation in 2010 for the conviction and 14-year prison sentences given to two men who were arrested after celebrating their engagement and were charged with unnatural acts and gross indecency. | The previous President...
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