Global News Headlines Correct Version - May 28

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Tuesday, May 28, 2002
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CLIMATE CHANGE

1) Japan-funded Sumatra hydropower project victims to ...
JAKARTA, May 28, 2002 (Kyodo via COMTEX) -- Villagers of 
two provinces in Indonesia's Sumatra Island who were 
forcibly resettled from their land in 1987 to make way for 
a Japan-funded hydropower dam project plan to file a 
damages lawsuit against the Japanese government, a local...


2) Japan Economic Newswire HEADLINE: Ozone layer to recover 
around 2040: Japanese team study DATELINE: TOKYO, May 28 
BODY: The hole in the ozone layer will mostly disappear 
around 2040 due to the restrictions placed on 
chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), a Japanese research team said 
Tuesday. In the 1980s the hole in the ozone layer, which...

Read the article: 
 http://home.kyodo.co.jp/all/display.jsp?an=20020528038


3) The Washington Post May 28, 2002, Final Edition A SECTION; 
Pg. A01 HEADLINE: Signs of Thaw in a Desert of Snow; 
Scientists Begin to Heed Inuit Warnings of Climate Change 
in Arctic BYLINE: DeNeen L. Brown, Washington Post Foreign 
Service DATELINE: IQALUIT, Nunavut BODY: And so it has come 
to be, the elders say, a time when icebergs are melting,...

Read the article: 
 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18506-2002May27.html


(Greenpeace)
4) Fort Worth Star-Telegram, US, Posted on Tue, May. 28, 
2002; Voices of reason or radicalism? Speaking truth to 
ExxonMobil's power By Christopher Doran Special to the 
Star-Telegram Dallas has been playing host to the Climate 
Justice Summit, with five days of peaceful protest and 
educational activities leading up to Wednesday's ExxonMobil...

Read the article: 
 http://www.dfw.com/mld/startelegram/news/editorial/3349679.htm


FORESTS

5) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: Beijing trial in 70 million 
dollar ivory smuggling case opens DATELINE: BEIJING, May 27 
BODY: Court proceedings have begun here against a group 
accused of smuggling some 14 tonnes of African ivory into 
the country worth up to 583 million yuan (70.5
million dollars), state press said Monday. The ivory was...


6) Expert proposes world eco-cops to guard resources By 
Jeremy Lovell LONDON, May 28 (Reuters) - An advisor to the 
European Union on illegal logging called on Tuesday for the 
creation of a specialist group of international environment 
police to catch criminals plundering the Earth's resources. 
"What is really needed is an efficient Environmental Crime...


7) Asia Pulse HEADLINE: INDONESIA TRIES TO HAVE ILLEGAL 
LOGGING IN PREPCOM IV AGENDA DATELINE: NUSA DUA, Bali, May 
28 BODY: Indonesia is seeking to get illegal logging 
included in the agenda of the fourth UN Preparatory 
Committee Session of the World Summit on Sustainable 
Development (PrepCom IV), which kicked off in Nusa Dua...


8) The Nikkei Weekly May 27, 2002 HEADLINE: Eco-friendly wood 
products arrive in stores BYLINE: NAOKI HORI Staff writer 
HIGHLIGHT: Printing paper, furniture carry FSC logo 
attesting to acceptability of origin BODY: Paper and other 
wood products made from trees grown and harvested in an 
environment-friendly way are catching on with Japanese...


(Greenpeace)
9) PNG Post-Courier, Papua New Guinea, Monday 27th, May, 
2002; Business: Log export industry and the development myth
THERE is a common perception in Papua New Guinea that 
investment, especially that by foreigners, will bring 
development and improvement to the lives of people in our 
rural communities. This is one of the main reasons that is...

Read the article: 
 http://www.postcourier.com.pg/20020527/focus.htm


MILITARY

10) Financial Times (London) May 28, 2002, London Edition 2 
NATIONAL NEWS; Pg. 2; Crisis is the most serious in world, 
says Straw PEACE MISSION: BYLINE: JAMES MACKINTOSH 
DATELINE: BERLIN BODY: The dangers of a nuclear holocaust 
in India and Pakistan are more serious than any other world 
conflict, Jack Straw said yesterday as he set off on a...


11) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: Pakistan test fires third 
missile as UK's Straw flies in on peace mission BYLINE: 
RANA JAWAD DATELINE: ISLAMABAD, May 28 BODY: Pakistan 
defied international calls for restraint and test-fired a 
third missile on Tuesday, hours after British Foreign 
Minister Jack Straw arrived here in a bid to avert war with...


12) The Independent (London) May 28, 2002, FEATURES; Pg. 15 
HEADLINE: ANALYSIS: ARMS TRADE: A QUESTION THAT WON'T GO 
AWAY FOR LABOUR: IS IT ETHICAL TO SELL ARMS TO COUNTRIES AT 
WAR?;  BRITAIN PLAYED A LEAD ROLE IN ESTABLISHING AN EU 
CODE, BUT THE EXPORT OF WEAPONS TO CONFLICT ZONES IS A 
MISSING LINK IN GOVERNMENT POLICY BYLINE: Paul Eavis BODY:...


13) FEATURE-Britons in the dark on missile defence By Tom 
Miles FYLINGDALES MOOR, England, May 28 (Reuters) - In the 
middle of a British national park, amid the forest and the 
heather of the dales, sits a 120-foot (40-metre) black 
pyramid. The structure's three faces each contain more than 
2,500 transmitters which watch for incoming missiles and...


NUCLEAR POWER

14) Financial Times (London) May 28, 2002, USA Edition 2 THE 
AMERICAS; Pg. 4 HEADLINE: Japan rejects N-waste claims 
BYLINE: CANUTE JAMES DATELINE: KINGSTON BODY: Japan has 
rejected claims by Caribbean governments that shipments of 
nuclear waste between Japan and Europe, which pass through 
the region, are a threat to the Caribbean Basin and could...


OCEANS

15) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: EU commission adopts 
drastic reform of EU fish policy BYLINE: ALLEN NACHEMAN 
DATELINE: BRUSSELS, May 28 BODY: The European Commission on 
Tuesday adopted a proposed drastic reform in the EU's 
Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) aimed at rescuing depleting 
stocks, but at the cost of nearly 30,000 jobs. "For the...


(Greenpeace)
16) The New York Times May 28, 2002, Tuesday, Late Edition - 
Final SECTION: Section A; Page 4; Column 1; Foreign Desk 
LENGTH: 975 words HEADLINE: Shimonoseki Journal; Yuk! No 
More Stomach for Whales BYLINE:  By JAMES BROOKE DATELINE: 
SHIMONOSEKI, Japan, May 24 BODY: High on a bluff in a city 
park here stands the Whale Museum, a whimsical creation...

Read the article: 
 http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/28/international/asia/28JAPA.html


17) The Star, Malaysia, Tuesday, May 28, 2002; Marine life 
besieged By HILARY CHIEW WE have heard it all - declining 
fish-stock, polluted seas, devastated coral reefs, the 
expanding list of endangered marine species, all of which 
signal the deteriorating state of our marine environment. 
And if we think that is a problem remotely linked to us,...

Read the article: 
 http://thestar.com.my/lifestyle/story.asp?file=/2002/5/28/features/hrsea1&sec=features


(Greenpeace)
18) Reuters via ENN.com, Mexico becomes world's largest whale 
sanctuary Tuesday, May 28, 2002 By Reuters MEXICO CITY - 
Mexico recently announced an accord to protect whales in 
its waters, making it the world's largest national 
sanctuary for the giant mammals, environmental groups said. 
The office of Mexican President Vicente Fox said the Area...

Read the article: 
 http://www.enn.com/news/wire-stories/2002/05/05282002/reu_47353.asp


TOXICS

19) The Guardian (London) May 28, 2002 Guardian Foreign Pages, 
Pg. 13 HEADLINE: Organic farms in scandal of illegal 
herbicide BYLINE: John Hooper in Berlin BODY: Organic 
farming in Germany is suffering what one politician has 
called its biggest scandal with the discovery of a 
carcinogenic herbicide in animal feed. A regional...

Read the article: 
 http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,723322,00.html


20) The Jerusalem Post May 28, 2002, NEWS; Pg. 3 HEADLINE: $ 
100m. plan prepared to revamp national toxic waste dump 
BYLINE: Stuart Winer BODY: The Environment Ministry said 
yesterday it has prepared a $ 100 million master plan for 
the refurbishment of the Ramat Hovav toxic waste disposal 
site in the Negev. Environment Ministry Director-General...


21) The Associated Press May 28, 2002, HEADLINE: Town of 2,200 
ordered evacuated after freight train carrying hazardous 
materials derails DATELINE: POTTERVILLE, Mich. BODY: A 
freight train carrying hazardous materials derailed in this 
town of 2,200 people, prompting officials to order the 
city's evacuation as they tried to avoid an explosion from...


X-OTHER-X

22) Agence France Presse HEADLINE: UN summit chief plays down 
fears that Bali meeting will fail BYLINE: AHMAD PATHONI 
DATELINE: JAKARTA, May 28 BODY: A senior UN official has 
played down fears expressed by conservation groups that a 
meeting in Indonesia on safeguarding the future of the 
planet will end without any clear commitments. "I'm hopeful...


(Greenpeace)
23) The Jakarta Post, Indonesia, 28/05/2002; North, South 
differ in Bali talks The Jakarta Post, Nusa Dua, Bali Two 
weeks of talks in Bali on sustainable development started 
off on Monday with countries from the North and South 
divided over who should implement what and when, while 
non-governmental organizations characterized the meeting as...

Read the article: 
 http://www.thejakartapost.com/detailheadlines.asp?fileid=20020528.@01&irec=0


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