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Nebraska lawmakers have given final-round approval to a bill that would require all cigarettes sold in the state be 'fire safe.' Nebraska would join 37 other states with similar laws if Gov.

New York - A Swedish climate change study released Thursday called for focusing assistance on the world's most vulnerable poor communities. The study by Sweden's Commission on Climate Change and Development said the world's most vulnerable communitie...

WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration will not jeopardize Americans' safety by releasing dangerous Guantanamo prisoners into their communities, Attorney General Eric Holder promised Thursday.

John Erickson has the conviction of success. More than 22.000 people live in his 20 retirement communities in 11 states. He opened the first outside of Baltimore in 1983, at a time when large, apartme...

The ambitious agenda introduced to Congress six weeks ago has been compromised by hold-outs and it now seems clear that the US will come nowhere close to European targetsBarack Obama's plans to move America towards a cleaner energy economy have survived - but not unscathed.Democratic leaders in Congress said late yesterday they were confident of getting enough support from about a dozen Democratic hold-outs - conservatives, and members from oil and coal producing states - to move forward on a climate change bill.But the ambitious global warming and energy agenda introduced to Congress six weeks ago, has been weakened in a number of key areas by the compromises with the Democratic hold-outs.Further details of the draft are expected today. But it now seems clear that America will come nowhere close to European targets for cutting carbon emissions - a shortfall that could provoke a backlash in the international community looking to Obama to provide leadership on climate change. Significan

LILONGWE, May 14 (IPS) - A group of civil society organisations in Malawi is pushing for changes to the country's controversial social cash transfer scheme which have caused tension in communities as it attempts to separate the poor from the ''very poor'' in a country where some 65 percent of people live on less than a dollar a day.

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(New York) - Iran should immediately free seven detained Baha'i community leaders, or bring them promptly to trial so they can defend themselves in fair and open proceedings against the serious charges against them, Human Rights Watch said today. Today is the one-year anniversary of the detention of six of them, while the seventh was detained earlier. None have had access to a lawyer. read more

LILONGWE, May 14 (IPS) - A group of civil society organisations in Malawi is pushing for changes to the country's controversial social cash transfer scheme which has caused tension in communities as it attempts to separate the poor from the ''very poor'' in a country where some 65 percent of people live on less than a dollar a day.

An ingenious new method of obtaining marine microbe samples in a natural setting may make it possible finally to learn on a broad scale how microbial communities living at different ocean depths and regions respond to environmental stimuli.