Officials from UN member states are gathering in Geneva for a five-day conference on climate change. The World Climate Conference will look at ways to help countries cope with the effects of climate…
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GAZA (Reuters) – Hamas condemned the United Nations on Sunday, saying it planned to teach Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip about the Holocaust — but the U.N. agency which runs schools in the enclave would not confirm any change. Branding the Nazi genocide of the Jews “a lie invented by the Zionists”, the Islamist [...]
The cracks in Iran’s political establishment became clear yesterday as conservatives came out strongly against President Ahmadinejad’s choices for Cabinet. In the first day of confirmation proceedings in parliament, MPs repeatedly questioned the President’s picks,…
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Japanese voters swept to power an untested centre-left party in an electoral avalanche that ended more than half a century of almost unbroken conservative rule, according to exit polls. The opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), led by Yukio Hatoyama, was set to storm home with more than 300 seats in the 480-seat lower…
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