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Archives: Toys 'R' Us Gets Wound Up Again
Earnings are higher, the retailer is making acquisitions, and an IPO is expected early next year When a trio of private equity buyers snapped up Toys "R" Us in 2005, many predicted the retailer wouldn't survive. Instead, Toys...
Lester Brown -- Climate change means less food, more hunger
As the U.N. climate-change conference in Copenhagen approaches, we are in a race between political tipping points and natural ones. Can we cut carbon emissions fast enough to keep the melting of the Greenland ice sheet from...
Rebel conflict heightens humanitarian crisis in Yemen
MAZRAQ, YEMEN -- From his tent made of blankets, Ali al-Majeshri stared at the tarpaulin tents in the refugee camp across the road. Five days before, he and his family had arrived at this wretched patch in a failing nation,...
Helen Benedict -- Global warming will doom Seychelles
Last October, the president of the island nation of Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed, made all his ministers put on diving gear and held the first underwater cabinet meeting in history. His point? If nothing is done to slow global...
Rwanda: UN Calls for Action Against FDRL
Kigali — The United Nations has welcomed the recent arrest in Germany of top leaders of the Forces Démocratiques de Libération du Rwanda (FDLR), and urged other nations to follow suit. Allan Doss, the United Nations top envoy...
Plans made on climate change
BY ELISABETH ROSENTHAL AND NEIL MacFARQUHAR With less than three weeks remaining before negotiators gather in Copenhagen to hammer out a global response to climate change, a rapid-fire succession of countries are unveiling...
Australia's $20 Million Aid to Pakistan, Burma
BRISBANE—Australia has responded to an urgent call for support from the World Food Program (WFP) with $5 million for people suffering due to conflict in northwest Pakistan. More than one million people remain displaced by...
LEBANON: Migrant Women Dying on the Job
By Dalila Mahdawi BEIRUT, Nov 21 (IPS) - October and November have been bloody months for Lebanon's migrant domestic workers - over the last five weeks nine women have died. The workers leave their families behind to travel to...
Time for world leaders to ratify disappearances treaty
Amnesty International has called on world leaders to help prevent enforced disappearances by urging them to ratify a landmark treaty at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). The International Convention for the Protection...
Oops! Frequent Maddow Guest Cox Undercuts Nicolle Wallace's Catty Claims About Palin
Don't be surprised if McCain '08 campaign adviser Nicolle Wallace passes up future chances to vent for Rachel Maddow. Wallace did not appear on the Maddow show, agreeing instead to go on the record off-camera with her...
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