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Six nations decline invitation to Liu Nobel gala (Reuters)

November 18th, 2010

Reuters - Six countries declined invitations to the December 10 Nobel Peace Prize ceremony for jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo after an unprecedented campaign by China to sabotage attendance, the…

Fishing nations force EU retreat on bluefin tuna (AP)

November 18th, 2010

FILE - This Feb. 5, 2010 file photo shows a bluefin tuna caught in the Indian Ocean at the Rungis wholesale market, south of Paris. It's succulent and sought-after, a pricey fish prized for sushi. The Atlantic bluefin tuna is also a victim of overfishing, and environmentalists say the world has a chance to save it by cutting fishing quotas dramatically at a conference in Paris that started Wednesday Nov.17, 2010. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)AP - France, Spain and other Mediterranean nations forced the European Union to retreat Thursday from an ambitious plan to save the threatened and prized bluefin tuna.


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EU nations agree Bluefin tuna compromise (AFP)

November 17th, 2010

A sushi selection made from bluefin tuna. European Union member countries on Wednesday agreed to argue in favour of a AFP - European Union member countries on Wednesday agreed to argue in favour of a “stable or partially reduced quota” for bluefin tuna as nations met in Paris to set…

Obama to tout achievements at United Nations (AP)

September 23rd, 2010

AP - President Barack Obama is taking a break from domestic concerns to put himself forward as an international statesman who has re-engaged the United States with the world after years…

Nations pledge more in Pakistan flood aid (AP)

September 19th, 2010

AP - Nations and groups supporting Pakistan’s democratic advances promised Sunday to give the country millions of dollars more in flood aid, but some insisted that Pakistan itself must lead…

Iran inaugurates nation’s first unmanned bomber (AP)

August 22nd, 2010

AP - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has inaugurated the country’s first domstically-built long-range unmanned bomber.

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West African nations to meet over Guinea-Bissau (AP)

August 18th, 2010

AP - Nigeria’s president says a group of West African nations will hold an emergency meeting to discuss sending troops to the troubled and impoverished nation of Guinea-Bissau.

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Four E.U. Nations Stoke Fears of an Immigrant Flood (Time.com)

August 14th, 2010

Time.com - Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Spain have extended citizenship to almost five million people, most of them outside the E.U. Europe’s leaders worry that those with ethnic ties will…

Nations fail to limit whaling, Japan still hunts (AP)

June 23rd, 2010

Japan's fishery minister Yasue Funayama, right, and delegation member Hideo Jinpu attend the opening session of the 62nd International Whaling Commission in Agadir, Morocco, Monday, June 21, 2010. The International Whaling Commission is holding its most important meeting in decades, as nations ponder whether to suspend the porous 25-year ban on commercial hunting in favor of a more enforceable regime of limited whaling.  (AP Photo/Abdeljalil Bounhar)AP - An international effort to truly limit whale hunting collapsed Wednesday, leaving Japan, Norway and Iceland free to keep killing hundreds of mammals a year, even raiding a marine sanctuary…

Nations fail to agree on curbing Japan whale hunt (AP)

June 23rd, 2010

In this photo taken on June 17, 2010, whale meat restaurant Magonotei manager Tomohiro Akio slices a chunk of lean meat of a whale caught in the Antarctic as he prepares for a sashimi dish at its kitchen in Tokyo Thursday, June 17, 2010. Makoto Ito, managing director of Kyodo Senpaku Co., the company that runs the annual Antarctic hunt, said he didn't think they should be ended, because 'we need to collect more data.'  Japan's refusal to give up its Antarctic hunt puzzles even observers within the country. Current coastal catches, also conducted for scientific research, provide fresher meat and are cheaper. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)AP - Nations at a meeting of the International Whaling Commission say they have failed to reach an agreement to curb whale hunts by Japan, Norway and Iceland.


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