 Warming temperatures will cause more drought and higher seas in Australia and New Zealand by 2030 and threaten ecologically rich sites such as the Great Barrier Reef, according to excerpts from a scientific report released Tuesday. The South Pacific Islands, meanwhile, will be swamped by sea level rises as well as by more frequent cyclones, according to the report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a United Nations network of scientists. Island economies also will suffer as warming waters damage coral reefs and hurt the fishing industries, the report said. A summary of the full, 1,572-page document written and reviewed by 441 scientists was released Friday. The document, the second of four reports, describes how global warming is changing life on Earth and spells out the consequences by region. ...
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 Serbian court convicts 4 for war crimes Paramilitaries sentenced for killing 6 Srebrenica Muslims in 1995 |
Four paramilitaries seen in a video fatally shooting Bosnian Muslims near Srebrenica in 1995 were convicted of war crimes against civilians on Tuesday by Serbia’s War Crimes Court.It was the country’s first court ruling related to the systematic killings of up to 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica in the final months of the 1992-95 war in Bosnia — Europe’s worst atrocity since World War II.Trials of Serbs in Serbia have only become possible since the 2000 ouster of President Slobodan Milosevic, and the Srebrenica case has been a key test of the ability of Serbia’s judiciary to deal with wartime atrocities. The four Serbs found guilty Tuesday were seen in a video that surfaced in June 2005 when it was shown at the war crimes trial of Milosevic before the U.N. tribunal for the former Yugoslavia....
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| Janjaweed Militia Massacred 400 in Chad, Agency Says |
Janjaweed militiamen killed up to 400 people in the volatile eastern border region near Sudan, leaving an "apocalyptic" scene of mass graves and destruction, the U.N. refugee agency said Tuesday.The attacks took place March 31 in the border villages of Tiero and Marena, some 550 miles from the capital, N'djamena. Chadian officials initially said 65 people had died, but said the toll was sure to rise."Estimates of the number of dead have increased substantially and now range between 200 and 400," the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees said in a statement. "Because most of the dead were buried where their bodies were found — often in common graves owing to their numbers — we may never know their exact number."The attackers encircled the villages and opened fire, pursuing fleeing villagers, robbing women and shooting the men, UNHCR said. Many who survived the initial attack died later from exhaustion and dehydration, often while fleeing....
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| 17 killed in bombings in Iraq |
In three separate incidents, bombers in Iraq targeted a college district and a secondary school in Baghdad, and a police recruiting center in Diyala province killing at least 17 people on Tuesday, local authorities told CNN.Meanwhile, coalition forces pounded insurgent targets across Iraq on Tuesday, the military said. They launched raids in Anbar, in the west of the country, and Baghdad and continued their Operation Black Eagle push that began last week against Shiite militias in the southern city of Diwaniya.That effort so far has killed 14 people and wounded 61 others, among them Shiite militia members, an Interior Ministry official told CNN. At the police recruiting center in the town of Muqdadiya on Tuesday, a female suicide bomber blew herself up, killing 10 people and wounding 15 others, a Baghdad police official said....
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| Palestinian and Israeli leaders to meet next week |
The Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, said today he will meet Israel's prime minister, Ehud Olmert, next week, following a recent US-brokered agreement for the pair to hold talks every fortnight."My meeting with Olmert will be next week," Mr Abbas told reporters during an Easter visit to Christian leaders in Bethlehem, giving no further details. Mr Olmert's staff had no comment.The plan for regular meetings was announced a fortnight ago by the US secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, during a visit to the region.Intended primarily as a mutual confidence-building plan, the get-togethers would be used to discuss practical, day-to-day issues and the wider "political horizon", rather than specific peace proposals, she said after days of frantic shuttle diplomacy....
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| Bush avoids endorsing GOP stance on aliens |
As important as what President Bush said yesterday on the U.S.-Mexico border is what he left out, according to those who follow the issue: He did nothing to endorse the draft immigration principles to which the White House and Senate Republicans appeared to have agreed. Mr. Bush also renewed his support for granting a path to citizenship, ending speculation that he was backing off a central piece of the Senate compromise reached last year by saying illegal aliens who meet conditions and pay fines "should be able to apply for citizenship." "He didn't cozy up to the specifics of the PowerPoint, and he was really clear we need a practical answer that's somewhere between automatic citizenship, which nobody is advocating, and mass deportation," said Angela Kelley, deputy director of the National Immigration Forum, which wants Congress to pass a legalization bill. "If he wanted to close doors to people getting green cards, this would have been the time to do it." ...
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