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Syria - ISA Country Report
2013-05-02 02:00:00| Apparel & textile industry market research - from just-style.com
This report contains detailed forecasts and analysis for Syria, including trade and investment analysis, economic forecasts, political risk assessments and demographic trend analysis. Each ISA Countr
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Did Climate Change Spark the War in Syria?
2013-03-13 12:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Care2: Could global warming have played a role in instigating the ongoing, and bloody, war that has been going on in Syria for nearly two years, resulting in the deaths of an estimated 70,000 and a million Syrians forced to flee from their homes, thousands to other countries? Unprecedented food price rises were fundamental triggers for the Arab Spring, writes Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed in the Guardian. A 2008 global rice shortage led to a steep rise in prices, setting off food riots in the Middle East,...
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How Climate Change Worsened Violence in Syria
2013-03-06 21:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Desk: In October 2010, just months before a Tunisian street vendor self-immolated and sparked what would become the Arab Spring, a prolonged drought was turning Syria`s verdant farmland into dust. By last month, more than 70,000 Syrians, mostly civilians, had been killed in the brutal and ongoing conflict between President Bashar al-Assad`s dictatorial regime and a coalition of opposition forces; just today, the UN announced that over one million refugees fled the country in the last two years. International...
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Syria Sugar Consumption Falls 40% as War Shuts Down Sweet Shops
2013-02-03 06:33:09| Sugar Industry News
Syria\'s sugar consumption fell by as much as 40 percent over the past 12 months as the civil war shut down its confectionery shops, T. Akhras Group Chairman Tarif Akhras said today.
UN chief hopes for new climate change agreement and end to war in Syria in 2013
2013-01-22 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says his top hopes for 2013 are to reach a new agreement on climate change and to urgently end the increasingly deadly and divisive war in Syria. The U.N. chief told The Associated Press that he's also hoping for progress in getting the global economy humming again, restarting Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations, promoting political solutions in Mali, Congo and the Central African Republic, and providing energy, food and water to all people. Ban laid out...
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