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# Earth Day seems to be entering a midlife identity crisis. Earth Day isn’t even a day anymore while April 22 is the official date, it’s grown to become an earth week, an earth month, and more.
# Many people think the Earth day has become...
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# Pope’s repeated professions of shame and anguish can be more than an emotional balm after culminating in the first publicly known meeting with the sex abuse victims.
# Catholic clergy face challenges beyond fallout from the abuse problem like the...
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Bollywood star Amitabh Bachchan has turned blogger to connect with his fans worldwide.
Speaking about his new initiative, Bachchan said, “The blog allows me to express myself, share and reflect my emotions, thoughts, opinions and listen to what...
# The US Supreme Court upheld the three-drug lethal injection method clearing the way for an unofficial moratorium on executions to be lifted.
# In the three-drug protocol one of those drugs, a paralytic, would render the prisoner unable to express...
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# The French National Assembly has passed a groundbreaking bill which seeks to criminalise the promotion in the media of extreme thinness with a fine up to 45,000 euros and three years in prison.
# The law could also affect the fashion industry and...
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# UN Special Rapporteur for the Right to Food Jean Ziegler told German radio Monday that the production of biofuels is “a crime against humanity” because of its impact on global food prices.
# EU Environment Commissioner has rejected...
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# The US highest court has set arguments on whether death penalty for the crime of raping a child represents unconstitutionally cruel and unusual punishment.
# The sexual violation of immature young children by predatory adults is extremely great due...
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Seize of more than 400 children, most of them girls, in raid on the compound of a polygamist sect - The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS), has again fueled the debate around religious sects and the role they’re playing...
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# Athletes who display Tibetan flags at Olympic venues — including in their own rooms — could be expelled from this summer’s Games in Beijing under anti-propaganda rules.
# The Olympic Charter bans any kind of “demonstration or political,...
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# With the world food prices rising over 45% in the last nine months, world is heading towards commodity crises never heard of before.
# Among the major factors - record fuel prices, ethanol production, unprecedented demand, the effects of climate...
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