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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Obama administration is considering seeking a change in the special U.S. military trials for Guantanamo Bay terrorism suspects to allow those who face the death penalty to plead guilty without getting a full trial, The New York Times reported on Friday.

The Palm Pre becomes available to the world tomorrow (it’s June 6th!). That’s great news but what if you’re a developer who really wants to start tinkering? The Palm Pre Mojo SDK has been out for a while but only available to a handful of developers. According to Palm, though, that’s about to change. Palm’s VP [...]

Nature's way is best for controlling the gases responsible for climate change, the U.N. Environment Program said in a report ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two New York state unions have accepted a plan to save the state $440 million over two years while avoiding layoffs, partly by enticing 7,000 state workers to retire, Governor Dav...

Ireland and the Czech Republic, the two biggest obstacles to reform of the EU's Lisbon treaty, went to the polls today on the second day of the four-day election marathon for the European parliament.With Václav Klaus, the Czech president, climate change denier and Europhobe, urging Czechs to cast a vote against Brussels, European leaders were anxiously watching to see if either of the two ­countries would copy the anti-EU triumph in the Netherlands of Geert Wilders, the anti-immigration populist.Wilders' Freedom party shook the Dutch political establishment in the first of the 27 elections for the European parliament yesterday by coming second with 17% of the ballot, almost tripling his vote from Dutch general elections in 2006.'A breakthrough,' he called it today, attacking the traditional parties for trying to erect what he called a 'cordon sanitaire' around him.Turnout in the Netherlands was a poor 36%, lower than in 2004, confirming ­overall predictions of the lowest turnout since

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A new 'Buy American' provision in a massive climate change bill working its way through Congress is a worrisome sign of increased U.S. protection, a business official said on Friday.

GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Health Organization (WHO) kept its pandemic flu alert at the second highest level on Friday but said that future changes would reflect how severe an outbreak was as well as how widespread.

Zenit.org ).- No one is exempt from the "indisputable obligation" to protect the planet, says the ecumenical patriarch of Constantinople.Bartholomew I affirmed that climate change is the big...

Composer has high praise for soloist Gil Shaham