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Terror Threat? Climate Change Shrinking Plants and Animals Part of Bigger Global Security Threat

Michael Shank | Posted 12.19.2011

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Michael Shank

This week's announcement that climate change is shrinking plant and animal species and is likely to have a negative impact on human nutrition in the f...

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Photo Exhibit: Countries at U.N. Respond to Global Shark Conservation Challenge

Matt Rand | Posted 12.13.2011

Read More: Pew Environment Group, Bahamas, Marshall Islands, Palau, Shark-Sanctuary, United Nations, Slidepollajax, Mexico, Maldives, Honduras, Shark Conservation, Shark Attack Survivors, Sharks, Green News
Matt Rand

Leaders from the Bahamas, Colombia, the Maldives, the Marshall Islands, Mexico, and Micronesia pledged to develop shark sanctuaries totaling up to six million square kilometers.

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Eel Species Is A 'Living Fossil,' Scientists Say

Posted 11.05.2011

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Scientists working near the Pacific island nation of Palau discovered a new species of eel which they dubbed a “living fossil.” In the video be...

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Turning the Tide to Protect the World's Sharks

Matt Rand | Posted 05.25.2011

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Matt Rand

Last year may prove to have been a watershed for protecting some of the oldest species of fish in our oceans. It's not too late to save these amazing marine predators from extinction.

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South Sudan Reminds Us What It Takes to Become a New Nation

Howard Steven Friedman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Confederacy, India, Montenegro, Slovakia, Civil War, Palau, United Nations, Serbia, Democracy, China, Independence, Country, Cairo, Sudan, Nauru, Czechoslovakia, North Sudan, Tuvalu, South Sudan, Czech Republic, World News
Howard Steven Friedman

Recently created countries remind us that there are no special requirements in terms of physical size, population or economic strength in order to become an independent country.

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Stateless Pawns in the Global Game of the Superpowers

Peter Jan Honigsberg | Posted 05.25.2011

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Peter Jan Honigsberg

The U.S. cannot repatriate seven men from Guantanamo to their homes in East Turkistan because the Chinese, who depict the detainees as terrorists, will likely torture and kill them.

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Who Are the Six Uighurs Released From Guantanamo to Palau?

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: War on Terror, Afghanistan, Palau, Terrorism, Judge Ricardo Urbina, Pakistan, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Obama Administration, Taliban, Barack Obama, Uighurs, Guantanamo Uighurs, Qala-I-Janghi Massacre, Northern Alliance, Xinjiang Province, Guantanamo Bay, The Guantanamo Files, China, World News
Andy Worthington

I am drawing together here the stories of six men who, nearly eight years after their wrongful and mistaken capture, are finally free from Guantánamo, even if an uncertain future awaits them.

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Source: 6 Gitmo Detainees Resettle In Palau

AP | JONATHAN KAMINSKY | Posted 05.25.2011

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KOROR, Palau — Six Chinese Muslims released from Guantanamo Bay but still wanted at home as separatists arrived Sunday on their new tropical isl...

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Uighur Brothers: Detainee Declines Offer To Leave Guantanamo Out Of Loyalty To Ailing Brother (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bahtiyar Mahnu, Detainees, Torture, Guantanamo Bay, Enemy Combatants, Gitmo, Uighur, Uighurs, Due Process, Afghanistan, Mental Illness, Elizabeth Gilson, Palau, China, Habeas Corpus, Video, Arkin, World News

After eight years of detention, at least one Guantanamo Bay detainee declined an offer to resettle to the Pacific Island of Palau, according to The Wa...

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Want to Close Guantanamo? No Problem

Kathy Rose | Posted 05.25.2011

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Kathy Rose

Why is everyone making such a fuss about where to move the men who are still at Guantanamo? I have the solution. I live in a huge anonymous apartment building in Manhattan...

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Some Gitmo Detainees Resisting Move To Palau

wsj.com | JESS BRAVIN | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Obama administration's drive to close the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has hit a new snag: At least some of the 13 detainees a...

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Palau Uighurs Face Culture Shock

AP | TOMOKO A. HOSAKA and WILLIAM FOREMAN | Posted 05.25.2011

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KOROR, Palau — They came from a land of scorching deserts, snowcapped mountains, camels and mosques. Now after several miserable years imprisone...

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Who Are the Four Guantanamo Uighurs Sent to Bermuda?

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011

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Andy Worthington

The Uighurs should never have been held at all; the Pentagon was only interested in them because of the intelligence they might have provided about the activities of the Chinese government.

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Palau Can't Take The Uighurs: Says China

AP | RAY LILLEY | Posted 05.25.2011

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WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Palau's president said Thursday that his tiny Pacific nation's tradition of hospitality prompted the decision to take ...

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Pacific island set to accept Gitmo's Chinese Muslims

WorldFocus.org | WorldFocus.org | Posted 05.25.2011

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Uighurs are an ethnic Muslim population who have been persecuted by the Chinese government. The tiny Pacific island nation of Palau has agree...

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From Guantanamo to the South Pacific: Is This a Joke?

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011

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Andy Worthington

Could there be an answer to the Obama administration's Uighur problem?

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Palau To Take Uighur Detainees

AP | RAY LILLEY | Posted 05.25.2011

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WELLINGTON, New Zealand — The tropical Pacific island nation of Palau announced Wednesday it will accept up to 17 Chinese Muslims who have langu...

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Seth Green Shares His Secrets of Financial Success as Unbroke Premieres

Andrea Chalupa | Posted 05.25.2011

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Andrea Chalupa

Green compares Unbroke to the Schoolhouse Rock shorts: funny and informative. "I'm concerned for all of America's youth who grew up watching My Super Sweet 16 and Cribs."

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