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[News-headlines] Global News Headlines - April 18-20
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GREENPEACE: Global News Headlines
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Sunday, April 20, 2003
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CLIMATE CHANGE
1) Environmentalists protest oil pollution DATELINE: MOSCOW.
April 19 (Interfax) BODY: Around 50 supporters of
environmental organizations protested against oil pollution
on Saturday in Moscow.The protesters floated a huge blue
balloon with black spots symbolizing the polluted Earth.
Kedr Party leader Anatoly Panfilov told Interfax that...
2) The Times (London) April 19, 2003, Home news; 1; Sydney?
California? No, it's Wales as forest fires sweep Britain
BYLINE: Helen Studd and Shirley English BODY: IN SCENES
reminiscent of a scorching Australian summer, ferocious
forest fires fuelled by the dry Bank Holiday weather swept
through large sections of moorland and woodland across...
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-651677,00.html
3) The Observer Online, UK, Sunday April 20, 2003; Green
groups to wage war at AGMs Conal Walsh Britain's top
companies face having their annual general meetings
disrupted in a concerted three-month campaign by
environmental and human rights groups. Barclays, Tesco, BP,
Balfour Beatty and BAE are among the blue-chip firms whose...
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http://www.observer.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,939846,00.html
4) The New York Times April 20, 2003, Late Edition - Final
Section 3; Page 6; Column 1; Money and Business/Financial
Desk; Business; Europe Gets Tougher On U.S. Companies
BYLINE: By SAMUEL LOEWENBERG DATELINE: BRUSSELS BODY:
AMERICAN corporations doing business in Europe are finding
themselves in an unusual position. They are having to...
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http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/20/business/yourmoney/20EURO.html?ex=1051416000&en=9c2e563b87cd7e39&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE
5) The New York Times April 19, 2003, Late Edition - Final
Section C; Page 1; Column 2; Business/Financial Desk;
Cloaked in Green, But Pushing Trucks BYLINE: By DANNY HAKIM
DATELINE: DETROIT, April 18 BODY: As the Ford Motor Company
scaled back expectations this week for its first
hybrid-powered vehicle and backpedaled on a pledge to...
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http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/19/automobiles/19AUTO.html
6) The New York Times April 20, 2003, Late Edition - Final
Section 4; Page 8; Column 1; Editorial Desk; The War at Home
BODY: While President Bush pursues the fight against
terrorism and the military effort in Iraq, he's also
staging a new battle on the home front for his domestic
programs. Last week he began by stumping the country for...
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http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/20/opinion/20SUN1.html
7) The Denver Post Online, USA, Article Published: Sunday,
April 20, 2003 - 12:00:00 AM MST; The answer, my friend ...
Colorado to be home to fi fth-largest wind farm in nation
By Joey Bunch, Denver Post Environment Writer The most
promising source of electricity in the new millennium is as
old as civilization, born more than 5,000 years ago when...
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http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36%257E33%257E1335900,00.html
FORESTS
8) 04/18 Eleven Rare Pandas Found in China's Wild BEIJING
(Reuters) - Chinese scientists have found 11 wild giant
pandas in northern China, showing the endangered but
beloved species is still holding on despite threats to its
habitat, state media and experts said on Friday. Six pandas
-- five adults and one cub -- were found in the Foping...
GENETIC ENGINEERING
9) The New Zealand Herald April 18, 2003 NEWS; General;
Government 'spin' on GE report outrageous, say Greens BODY:
The Green Party says it is outraged by the Government's
reaction to a report released yesterday on the economic
impacts of releasing genetically engineered organisms in
New Zealand. "The report actually shows that there are more...
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http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/businessstorydisplay.cfm?storyID=3401816&thesection=business&thesubsection=general&thesecondsubsection=&thetickercode=
10) The New Zealand Herald April 18, 2003 NEWS; Dialogue
LENGTH: 402 words HEADLINE: Economics report fails to
justify GM release BODY: A study undertaken for Government
has failed to show any sure economic gains from releasing
genetically modified organisms (GMOs). It shows no concrete
benefits that would justify New Zealand giving up now its...
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http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=3401758&thesection=news&thesubsection=dialogue
MILITARY
(Greenpeace)
11) USA TODAY April 18, 2003, FINAL EDITION MONEY; Pg. 1B;
Corporate America's security precautions may still be lax
BYLINE: Kevin McCoy BODY: Even as the Iraq war winds down,
warnings rage on that significant parts of the U.S. private
sector remain unprepared for another terrorist attack.
Security around power plants and other key facilities has...
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http://www.usatoday.com/money/companies/2003-04-17-security-precautions_x.htm
12) Gulf News Online, UAE, 18-04-2003; In Theory: World may be
moving towards a new oil war |By Dr. Mohamed Al Asoomi |
With the abrupt and rapid fall of Baghdad that has come
contrary to the expectations of military experts and
political analysts, including the Pentagon and White House
experts, the war against Iraq has practically come to an...
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http://www.gulfnews.com/Articles/news.asp?ArticleID=84675
13) Independent on Sunday (London) April 20, 2003, NEWS; Pg.
14,15; IRAQ AFTERMATH: INVESTIGATION - ANTHRAX, CHEMICALS
AND NERVE GAS: WHO IS LYING?; BANNED WEAPONS; GROWING
EVIDENCE OF DECEPTION BY WASHINGTON BYLINE: ANDREW GUMBEL
IN LOS ANGELES RAF personnel wait in protective NBC
(nuclear, biological, chemical) kit in a bunker at their...
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http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=398705
14) Independent on Sunday (London) April 20, 2003, Sunday
SECTION: TITLE PAGE; Pg. 1 LENGTH: 727 words HEADLINE:
LEADING ARTICLE: SO WHERE ARE THEY, MR BLAIR?; NOT ONE
ILLEGAL WARHEAD. NOT ONE DRUM OF CHEMICALS. NOT ONE BODY:
So where are they? In case we forget, distracted by the
thought of thousands of dead Iraqi civilians, looted...
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http://argument.independent.co.uk/leading_articles/story.jsp?story=398837
15) The Observer Online, UK, Sunday April 20, 2003; Comment
Give us back our democracy Americans have been cheated and
lied to on matters of the gravest constitutional importance
Edward Said The Observer In a speech in the Senate on 19
March, the first day of war against Iraq, Robert Byrd, the
Democrat Senator from West Virginia, asked: 'What is...
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http://www.observer.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,940123,00.html
16) The Indpendent Online, UK, 21 April 2003; US wants
permanent access to military bases in post-war Iraq The
United States is planning to use Iraq to maintain a
long-term strategic foothold in the Middle East that would
include the right to use four of the country's military
bases, Bush administration officials said. George Bush...
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http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=399021
17) Independent on Sunday Online, UK, 20 April 2003; Blair 'no'
to Iraq arms inquiry By Jo Dillon, Deputy Political Editor
Tony Blair has ruled out an inquiry into allegations that
the public was misled about Saddam Hussein's alleged
weapons of mass destruction, the main justification for the
war. Putting himself at odds with a growing number of MPs,...
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http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=398822
18) The Guardian (London) April 19, 2003 Guardian Foreign
Pages, Pg. 14; North Korea steps up nuclear programme
BYLINE: Jonathan Watts in Tokyo and Julian Borger in
Washington BODY: North Korea stepped into the nuclear
danger zone yesterday by declaring it had begun
reprocessing 8,000 spent fuel rods from the reactor at the...
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,939571,00.html
NUCLEAR POWER
(Greenpeace)
19) MTI via Hoovers.com, 18.04.2003; Greenpeace Suspects
Radiation Within Power Plant Budapest, April 18 (MTI) - The
international environmental organisation Greenpeace
suspects that radiation might have reached a dangerous
levels within the Paks Nuclear Power Plant, exposing
workers to radiation load over the past few days. Judit...
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http://huknews.hoovers.com/fp.asp?layout=displaynews&doc_id=NR20030419670.4_0d370007745ccce3
20) The Daily Yomiuri (Tokyo) April 19, 2003 Pg. 2; Sumitomo
says JCO to cease operations SOURCE: Yomiuri BODY: Sumitomo
Metal Mining Co. announced Friday its fuel-processing
subsidiary, JCO Co., in Tokaimura, Ibaraki Prefecture, the
site of the nation's worst nuclear accident in September
1999, would abandon uranium reprocessing operations. JCO...
21) Sunday Mirror April 20, 2003, NEWS; Pg. 26; 5,000
CHERNOBYL SURVIVORS DEMO BYLINE: TIM VICKERY BODY: FIVE
thousand survivors of the Chernobyl disaster marched in the
Ukrainian capital Kiev yesterday to demand compensation and
increased benefits. Led by an orchestra playing a funeral
march the protesters - many carrying photographs of...
(Greenpeace)
22) The Houston Chronicle April 19, 2003, 3 STAR EDITION A;
Pg. 01; Nuclear plant finds leak, shuts down reactor
SOURCE: Staff BYLINE: MICHAEL DAVIS BODY: One of the two
units of the South Texas Project nuclear plant has been shut
down indefinitely because of signs of a tiny leak found
next to tubes near the bottom of the reactor, plant...
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http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/1874423
TOXICS
23) ABC Radio Australia News Online, Australian Broadcasting
Corporation, 18/04/2003 05:22:32; Australia accepts Pacific
toxic waste Toxic waste from 13 pacific island nations will
be shipped to the Australian state of Queensland later this
year for disposal. The disposal of what are known as
persistant organic pollutants has been sponsored by the...
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http://www.abc.net.au/ra/newstories/RANewsStories_835123.htm
(Greenpeace)
24) The Express Times Online, USA, Friday, April 18, 2003;
Contaminated waste heads for local plant From staff and
wire reports HELLERTOWN -- Bethlehem Apparatus will receive
and dispose of about 290 metric tons of mercury-contaminated
materials from a thermometer manufacturing plant in India.
Hindustan Lever Ltd., a subsidiary of the multinational...
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http://www.nj.com/news/expresstimes/pa/index.ssf?/base/news-5/1050656725124180.xml
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