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30.11.2007 The UN Security Council needs to take drastic measures to stop the flow of weapons into countries facing arms embargoes, says a news study released by an independent think tank.

29.11.2007 SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 29 (OneWorld) - U.S. war veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan have announced they're planning to descend on Washington, DC this March to testify about war crimes they committed or personally witnessed in Iraq.

28.11.2007 UNITED NATIONS, Nov 27 (OneWorld) - The number of natural disasters worldwide has increased from about 120 to 500 a year since the 1980s, according to a new study by an international aid organization, which faults climate change for the new and dangerous weather patterns.

26.11.2007 NEW YORK, Nov 26 (OneWorld) - The Bush administration is pushing for plans to reuse spent nuclear fuel in power reactors across the United States, but key senators and nuclear analysts have raised economic and security concerns about reusing the weapons-grade fuel.

22.11.2007 The verdict in the case of Ethiopian anti-poverty campaigners Daniel Bekele and
Netsanet Demissie, which was expected today, has been postponed again because a judge is in hospital.

21.11.2007 NEW YORK, Nov 21 (OneWorld) - Labor rights activists in the United States are trying to organize a nationwide campaign to push Congress to oppose the Bush administration's plans to promote new free trade agreements.

20.11.2007 UNITED NATIONS, Nov 20 (OneWorld) - Alarmed by the findings of a new study, Asia policy experts are warning of serious setbacks to economic and social development on the continent that is home to almost two thirds of the world's population if urgent actions are not taken to avert the threat of climate change.

17.11.2007 SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 17 (OneWorld) - A coalition of grassroots organizations will lead worldwide demonstrations against Wal-Mart and other so-called "big box" retail stores today.

16.11.2007 WASHINGTON, Nov 15 (OneWorld) - China is well on its way to acquiring fully 15 percent of its energy from renewable sources by the year 2020, while the United States is dragging its feet on transitioning away from fossil fuels, according to a pair of reports released here this week.

15.11.2007 NEW YORK, Nov 14 (OneWorld) - A new study by an independent think tank names and shames the power companies responsible for high levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in the United States and abroad.

14.11.2007 SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 14 (OneWorld) - Environmentalists are calling for an international ban on bunker fuel, a particularly noxious petroleum product used to power most ocean-going cargo ships, including those responsible for massive spills this week in the Black Sea and San Francisco Bay.

14.11.2007 UNITED NATIONS, Nov 13 (OneWorld) - An international rights advocacy group is demanding the world's tourism industry shed business practices that harm indigenous communities and their cultures.

11.11.2007 NEW YORK, Nov 11 (OneWorld) - Major U.S. companies are adding to the impending threat of global warming as they drive the production of palm oil in Indonesia's tropical forests, says a new study by an international environmental organization.

09.11.2007 LOS ANGELES, Nov 9 (OneWorld) - As Americans prepare to honor their military veterans with parades and patriotism this weekend, a new study shows that 494,500 U.S. war vets lived homeless on the street for at least part of last year.

09.11.2007 UNITED NATIONS, Nov 8 (OneWorld) - UN human rights experts urged Pakistani authorities Thursday to return to constitutional rule and stop the ongoing police crackdown on opposition activists.

07.11.2007 Despite much progress reducing poverty worldwide, a substantial number of the world's poorest people are being left behind, according to a report by the International Food Policy Research Institute.

07.11.2007 UNITED NATIONS, Nov 6 (IPS) - A long-held basic human right, the right to adequate food for the world's 854 million hungry people, is being threatened once again -- this time by the conversion of wheat, sugar, palm oil and maize into agricultural fuel.

05.11.2007 UNITED NATIONS, Nov 5 (OneWorld) - No bathroom. No clean water to drink. No playground for kids except streets filled with filth and human waste. That is the picture of life for the world's 2 billion poorest -- a vast majority of whom are working in big cities of developing countries -- painted by an international summit recently concluded in India.

02.11.2007 NEW YORK, Nov 2 (OneWorld) - Encouraged by the positive response to their call for demonstrations last April, environmental activists have planned another round of nationwide rallies tomorrow to demand decisive actions on global warming.

02.11.2007 Immediate European Union action to combat pirate fishing has been demanded by a leading environmental activism group.