Pope calls for responsible, credible climate deal

  VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI has urged this week’s U.N. climate change conference in South Africa to craft a responsible and credible deal to cut greenhouse gases that takes into account the needs of the poor. Government ministers from more than 100 countries are expected to attend the final sessions of the two-week conference that opens Monday in Durban. The immediate focus is […]

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Putin officially nominated as candidate for 2012 presidential polls

  Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was officially nominated as a candidate for the March 2012 presidential elections at a congress of the pro-Kremlin United Russia party at Moscow’s Luzhniki Arena on Sunday. All 614 delegates from United Russia and Putin’s All-Russia People’s Front movement who took part in the vote supported Putin’s candidacy. “My […]

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Mahmoud Abbas to meet Austria premier in Vienna

  RAMALLAH  — President Mahmoud Abbas will visit Austria on Sunday where he will meet with the government head Chancellor Werner Faymann, official media announced Saturday. Presidential adviser Nimir Hammad told the Voice of Palestine radio that Abbas would update Chancellor of Austria and other officials in Vienna on the efforts made to reactivate the […]

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