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Empty land and grass with blue sky - climate - environment
(photo: WN / Aruna Mirasdar)
Climate Change: Its Effects On Migration, Conflict In Northern Ghana
Joy Online
Scientific evidence available to various research institutions in Ghana have showed that the three regions of the North – comprising Upper West, Upper East and Northern Regions – are considered the poorest areas in the country and also have the most degraded environments. Similarly, they are among r...
Migrant workers fleeing the violence at Choucha refugee camp, Tunisia. Medical supplies, fuel and food have run dangerously low in Libya.
(photo: Creative Commons / Mohamed Ali MHENNI)
Libya struggles with illegal migrants, arms trafficking
France24
| AFP - Libya lacks the resources to control its borders, which are a conduit for weapons and for thousands of illegal immigrants seeking the shores of Europe, an official said on Saturday. | "More than 1,000 persons are coming here daily" from Egypt and all over Africa, said General Hamed al-Shalwy...
Hawker Hunter war games training jet crashes in Oxnard, Calif. killing the pilot
The Examiner
| A Hawker Hunter military training jet owned by Airborne Tactical Advantage Company and flown by a civilian pilot, crashed into a plowed field near Naval Air Station Point Mugu in Camarillo, Calif. on Friday, May 18, 2012 at 12:15 p.m. local time, k...
Cradle of Libyan revolt goes to poll
Khaleej Times
Residents in the eastern city of Benghazi, cradle of the revolt that led to the ouster and death of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, headed to the polls on Saturday to elect a local council. | "This is a first step in the transition from revolution to ...
Libya’s democratic course begins with elections of local councils
Middle East Online
| Residents in the eastern city of Benghazi, cradle of the revolt that led to the ouster and death of Libyan leader Moamer Gathafi, headed to the polls Saturday to elect a local council. | "This is a first step in the transition from revolution to st...
Cradle of Libyan revolution votes for local council
France24
| AFP - Residents in the eastern city of Benghazi, cradle of the revolt that led to the ouster and death of Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi, headed to the polls on Saturday to elect a local council. | "This is a first step in the transition from revolut...
Morocco slams ‘biased’ UN envoy
Independent online
Rabat - Morocco said on Thursday it had lost confidence in the UN envoy to the contested Western Sahara territory, in the latest in a long series of setbacks in efforts to settle a decades-old dispute over the region's status. | Rabat accused envoy C...
>Algeria elections look good abroad, bad at home
Seattle Post
| ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Algeria overturned the Arab Spring's revolutionary narrative with elections that bolstered the longtime ruling party and dashed Islamists' hopes of gaining power. The vote did something else, too: It burnished Algeria's de...
Lucy Wyatt on surviving the 21st century through the knowledge of the ancients
The Examiner
| Lucy Wyatt is the author of "Approaching Chaos: Could an Ancient Archetype Save C21st Civilization?" You will find this interview filled with wisdom about how the ancients lived and applying that knowledge to surviving the 21st century. We have dis...
Business
Food Prices - Shopper - Consumer - Philippines
(photo: WN / Yolanda Leyba)
Food prices fall but inflation a worry
News24
| Milan/London - World food prices eased in April after rising in the first quarter of this year, the United Nation’s food agency said, but inflation worries are still simmering as soybean prices climb. | Record high food prices last February helped to fuel the Arab Spring uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa. Prices receded in the secon...



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