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Perito Moreno Glacier Patagonia Argentina. Glacier ice is the largest reservoir of fresh water on Earth, and is second only to oceans as the largest reservoir of total water. Glaciers cover vast areas of the polar regions and are found in mountain ranges of every continent except Australia.
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World's top scientists to review climate panel
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SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer= WASHINGTON (AP) — The world's biggest scientific guns are being called in to mop up after a trickle of unsettling errors in the authoritative reports written by a global warming panel. The United Nations and the beleaguered Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said Wednesday that a Netherlands-based group of...
U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden, left, leaves the podium with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, following their press conference in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Wednesday, March 10, 2010.
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Biden: Palestinians deserve 'viable' state
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updated 12:30 p.m. ET March 10, 2010 RAMALLAH, West Bank - Vice President Joe Biden's displeasure over an Israeli plan to enlarge an east Jerusalem settlement was on display Wednesday as he warned against actions that "inflame tensions" and reassured his Palestinian hosts that they deserve a sustainable, independent state. The Israeli plans have...
 Russian exile Boris Berezovsky, a close friend of former Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko who was poisoned by Polonium 2-10, speaks to the media in a news conference in London, Wednesday, July 18, 2007. Berezovsky claims he was advised, three weeks ago
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Tycoon Wins Libel Suit in Ex-Spy's Murder Case
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Boris A. Berezovsky, a self-exiled Russian tycoon, won a libel suit in London on Wednesday against a Russian satellite broadcaster that had linked him to the murder in 2006 of Alexander V. Litvinenko, a onetime aide and former K.G.B. operative who was poisoned with a rare radioactive isotope. Related Times Topic: Boris A. Berezovsky Mr. Berezovsky...
File - This April 21, 2004 file photo shows Israeli nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu following his release outside Shikma Prison in the coastal city of Ashkelon, Israel.
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Why Punish Iran for What Israel Has Already Done?
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Article by WorldNews.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. As the Western Powers continue to criticize Iran for its nuclear enrichment program, and while they try and pressure Russia and China to impose stiffer economic sanctions, maybe it would be an opportune time to remember that for decades Israel has developed nuclear weapons and has tried to keep...
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China's Exports Rise 46%
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BEIJING —China announced Wednesday that its exports climbed 46 percent in February from a year earlier. Economists said the data signaled a rebound in consumer demand from the United States and other Western markets after the financial crisis last year. It was the third consecutive month of increases in Chinese exports and the fastest growth...
The Dalai Lama delivers his annual address from exile in India marking the 51st anniversary of a failed Tibetan uprising against Chinese rule in Dharamsla, India, Wednesday, March 10, 2010.
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China seeks to annihilate Tibet's Buddhism - Dalai Lama
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Tibet's spiritual leader has said China is trying to "annihilate Buddhism", as the region marks the anniversary of a failed revolt against China in 1959. The Dalai Lama's comments come as Tibetans also mark the anniversary of the bloody riots in 2008,...
People carry a dead body of an employee of an international humanitarian group World Vision, killed in the attack of suspected militants, at a field hospital in Ogi, a small town in Pakistani district Mansehra, Wednesday, March 10, 2010.
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Aid workers shot dead in Pakistan
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Unidentified assailants have attacked the office of a Western aid agency in Pakistan, killing up to five people and wounding several others, according to police. The victims, including two women, are all Pakistanis, Sajid Khan, a police official, said. Wednesday's attack took place on the office of the World Vision, a...
Afghan President Hamid Karzai, right, is followed by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad after giving a joint press conference at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan on Wednesday, March 10, 2010.
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Iran leader: U.S. playing 'double game' in Afghanistan
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Posted  | Comment  | Recommend | | | KABUL (AP) — Taking aim at the U.S., Iranian President said Wednesday that it's the United States that is playing a "double game" in , fighting terrorists it once supported. At a press conference in the Afghan capital, Ahmadinejad was asked to respond to Defense Secretary , who earlier...
File - Detainees at Joint Task Force (JTF) Guantanamo, Cuba, sit on prayer rugs as they observe morning prayers before sunrise inside Camp Delta Oct. 28, 2009.
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UK complained to US about terror suspect torture, says ex-MI5 boss
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• Waterboarding of 9/11 suspect was 'concealed' • Manningham-Buller criticises Bush staff Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller criticised George Bush and his administration, for torture of terror suspects Photograph: Graeme Robertson/Getty Images...
India's ruling Congress party supporters celebrate outside party leader Sonia Gandhi's house after the Women's Reservation Bill was passed by the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of parliament, in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, March 9, 2010.
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Historic Women's Bill passes amid chaos
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New Delhi: After unprecedented disruptions and high drama, the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday evening finally passed the historic Women's Reservation Bill reserving one-third seats for women in Parliament and state Legislatures. The Congress, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and the Left Front voted for the bill. The two MPs of the Trinamool Congress, the...
 
 
When the Soviet leader Konstantin Chernenko died on the evening of March 10, 1985, and Mikhail...
Barbara Tuchman, in her classic book "March of Folly," examined four cases in history when...
The chief enemy of British freedom at present is the British press. The justice secretary, Jack...
 
JAKARTA, Indonesia — The fugitive Islamic militant killed by Indonesian security forces traveled to Indonesia from the Philippines within the last few months, police officals said on Wednesday, an admission that raised concerns about the...
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BRUSSELS — European antitrust regulators took a step Wednesday toward approving an expanded alliance between British Airways, American Airlines and Iberia after the airlines offered to give up landing and takeoff slots at airports in London and...
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Ramallah (West Bank): Israel apologized Wednesday for disrupting the visit of Vice President Joe Biden with its announcement of 1,600 new homes in disputed east Jerusalem, but made clear it had no intention of reversing the order that has cast a...
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By Willy Lam China's ongoing tussles with the United States over issues including Taiwan, Tibet and trade are in a sense nothing new. For more than two decades, Sino-US relations have periodically gone through rough patches over these and related...
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Preliminary results of Iraq's parliamentary election, a vote seen as a litmus test of its young democracy, are likely to be released by Thursday, a United Nations official said on Wednesday. An employee of the Independent High...
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As accusations of historic sexual abuse by Roman Catholics emerge in another European country, the Vatican has insisted it has dealt with "the very serious issue" promptly and decisively. After recent revelations of widespread abuse in...
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