10 Dec 2009 13:30:59 GMT To match ANALYSIS MOROCCO-SPAIN/ Western Sahara independence campaigner Aminatou Haidar sits in a wheelchair before a news conference as she continues her hunger strike at Guacimeta airport in Lanzarote in Spain's Canary Islands ...
10 Dec 2009 13:29:16 GMT To match Analysis MORROCO-SPAIN/ Western Sahara independence campaigner Aminatou Haidar sits in a wheelchair before a news conference as she continues her hunger strike at Guacimeta airport in Lanzarote in Spain's Canary Islands ...
10 Dec 2009 13:28:54 GMT Mugabe backers raped opponents in election-report * Report records hundreds of rape cases
* Youth militia and war veterans implicated
* Calls for ICC probe, regional pressure
* MDC says failure to prosecute a breach of unity pact
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10 Dec 2009 13:26:00 GMT Turning concern about climate into policy remains a challenge COPENHAGEN (AlertNet) - Atiq Rahman has been going to international climate conferences for more than 20 years and he's seen a lot of change over that time.
Early meetings were about tallying carbon emissions, he says. Today, the main focus is mankind's responsibility for climate change.
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10 Dec 2009 13:25:38 GMT Obama accepts peace prize, defends "just wars" * Obama says U.S. must be standard bearer when force needed
* Nuclear disarmament, climate, Afghanistan among priorities
* No "precipitous" pullout from Afghanistan after 2011
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10 Dec 2009 13:24:30 GMT Plimer toast of sceptics meeting --- COPENHAGEN SUMMIT
THERE'S a second, less publicised climate conference going on in Copenhagen this week -- the climate sceptics' ``Copenhagen Climate Challenge''.
