The Senate Armed Services readiness subcommittee on Tuesday approved legislation rejecting the Defense Department’s request to shutter installations and facilities in the United States that are no longer needed as the military branches cut the number of troops in uniform.
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By a majority of almost 99.99% to .01%, the US public overwhelming rejected steps toward the legalization of genetically engineered trees during the USDA APHIS public comment period that ended yesterday. The comments were in response to a petition by genetically engineered (GE) tree company ArborGen requesting permission to commercially sell their GE freeze tolerant eucalyptus trees.
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Sri Lanka accepted Chinese aid to crush the Tamil Tiger rebels and then allowed the Chinese to built a new deepwater port at Hambantota. Now suddenly the West is up in arms about the human rights situation.
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US embassy cables allegedly detailing UK plan to stop return to Indian Ocean islands used by US military is ruled inadmissible
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The Supreme Court has ruled US courts cannot hear lawsuits about human rights abuses abroad. The nine justices unanimously said that a court in the state of New York could not hear a case against the Shell oil firm, over alleged abuses in Nigeria.
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European carbon permits declined by the most on record to an unprecedented low after lawmakers rejected an emergency plan to address a surplus of allowances.
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It rejected four out of nine contested austerity measures from the budget. This will deprive the state of some 1.5bln euros in savings the government had said were necessary to meet the terms of a eurozone bailout.
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The Portuguese constitutional court has deemed parts of the country’s 2013 austerity budget to be unconstitutional. The country had agreed to widespread belt-tightening in exchange for emergency international loans.
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The Swiss drugmaker had been denied a patent by Indian authorities on the grounds that the new version was only slightly different from the old.
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The Cypriot parliament has rejected the EU/IMF bailout for the country’s banks. Support for the deal, which would have involved a one-off charge on all deposit accounts in the country, ebbed away almost as soon as it was announced on Saturday at the Eurogroup meeting.
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