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UN General Assembly approves Syria resolution

By: Associated Press 05/15/13 8:09 PM
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The U.N. General Assembly approved an Arab-backed resolution Wednesday calling for a political transition in Syria, but more than 70 countries refused to vote "yes" because of its support for the main opposition group and fears the resolution could torpedo a new U.S.-Russia effort to end the escalating conflict. Read More

US extends airstrike role in Libya

By: Richard Lardner 04/03/11 7:57 PM
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The U.S. agreed to NATO's request for a 48-hour extension of American participation in coalition airstrikes against targets in Libya and U.S. lawmakers cautioned Sunday that the allies need to know more about the rebels fighting Moammar Gadhafi's forces before providing them with weapons. Two weeks into the assault on Gadhafi, Republican lawmakers expressed concern that a stalemate could leave him in control of portions of Libya and with access to stockpiles of chemical weapons. Read More

British climatologist: Halt economic growth in ‘rich’ world

By: Barbara Hollingsworth 12/02/10 12:36 PM
Members of the British Royal Society attending the latest round of UN-sponsored global warming talks in Cancun this week (where, by the way, it’s a balmy 78 degrees) called for tough new measures to cut carbon emissions, predicting that if they are not adopted, temperatures will rise catastrophically. Read More

British climatologist: Halt economic growth in ‘rich’ world

By: Barbara Hollingsworth 12/02/10 12:35 PM
Members of the British Royal Society attending the latest round of UN-sponsored global warming talks in Cancun this week (where, by the way, it’s a balmy 78 degrees) called for tough new measures to cut carbon emissions, predicting that if they are not adopted, temperatures will rise catastrophically. Read More

UN climate change panel chairman: Yup, global warming policies are really about redistributing wealth.

By: Mark Hemingway 11/17/10 10:00 PM
Ottmar Edenhofer isn’t exactly a household name, but he’s a big deal in the world of global warming. The German economist is the co-chair of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which produces a lot of the reports and data that continue to get people all, er, hot and bothered about the problem of global warming. Read More

International decline into madness

By: Gabriel Schoenfeld 06/02/10 12:00 AM
Over at the Wall Street Journal, Robert Pollock has an important piece about Turkey’s “national decline into madness.” Demonic images of the United States, Israel, and the Jews, are the daily fare of the Turkish press. Turkey’s leaders are both captives of this propaganda and its perpetuators. Read More

News flash: Himalayan glaciers, polar bears aren’t going anywhere

By: Barbara Hollingsworth 01/21/10 2:00 AM
After insisting that thousands of leaked emails from East Anglia University’s Climate Research Unit wouldn’t derail attempts to force industrialized nations to sharply curtail their energy use “to save the planet,” it turns out that global warming believers are as bad at predicting political reactions as they are at predicting the weather. Read More

The 800 lb. Taliban in the U.N. General Assembly Room

By: Nate Beeler 09/24/09 12:00 AM
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