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VIDEO: Airline's bid to attract engineers
2013-11-26 12:15:30| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
British airline Monarch is trying to attract more young people into engineering with the launch of a new hangar in Birmingham.
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Climate change refugee bid denied by New Zealand court
2013-11-26 10:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A Pacific Island man's bid to become a climate change refugee suffered a blow on Tuesday after a New Zealand court refused to let him challenge a decision denying him asylum. Ioane Teitiota, 37, had said he was trying to escape rising seas and environmental risks caused by global warming in his home country of Kiribati. But New Zealand's High Court in Auckland ruled that his claim fell short of the legal criteria, such as fear of persecution or threats to his life. Justice John Priestly...
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New Zealand denies climate change asylum bid
2013-11-26 08:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: The New Zealand High Court has rejected a bid by a man from the Pacific island nation of Kiribati to stay in the country as a climate-change refugee. Ioane Teitiota - whose work visa had expired - had said rising sea-levels meant there was no land in Kiribati he and his family could return to safely. The low-lying island nation is vulnerable to climate change. But the judge said environmental problems did not fit internationally recognised criteria for refugee status. "By returning to...
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Pacific Islander Ioane Teitiota fails bid be first climate change refugee
2013-11-26 07:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: An i-Kiribati man's bid to become the world's first climate change refugee has failed, with a New Zealand judge describing his case as "unconvincing". Lawyers for Ioane Teitiota, 37, argued that NZ immigration authorities should not deport him, even though his visa had expired, because rising seas were threatening his low-lying homeland of Kiribati in the central Pacific. The difficulties Mr Teitiota and his family would encounter in Kiribati - which consists of more than 30 coral atolls, most...
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Bayer preparing a bid for Norwegian drug partner Algeta: paper
2013-11-26 03:11:24| Chemicals - Topix.net
German pharmaceutical group Bayer is preparing a bid to acquire Algeta, its partner for its prostrate cancer treatment Xofigo, a German newspaper reported on Tuesday.
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