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VIDEO: CWU: Postal workers will strike
2013-09-15 10:40:19| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The general secretary of the CWU, Billy Hayes, has said that he is certain postal workers will vote in favour of strike action, amid controversy over plans to privatise Royal Mail.
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Deadly 1,000-year floods strike Colorado
2013-09-13 18:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Biblical hell has broken out in Colorado, where more than six inches of rain fell in 24 hours, contributing to flash floods that killed at least three people. (Before you complain about our use of "biblical," note that it`s the word federal forecasters chose to describe the flooding in an official update on the National Weather Service website.) "It`s insane right now, I`ve lived in Colorado my whole life, and this is nothing that I`ve ever, ever seen before," Andra Coberly, spokesperson for...
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VIDEO: Strike over soybeans in Indonesia
2013-09-11 02:55:48| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Indonesian makers of soybean snacks have been on strike this week, protesting over the high price of imported beans.
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Baghdad, Big Oil on alert for retaliation to a Syria strike
2013-09-07 11:22:43| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Baghdad and foreign oil companies at work in Iraq's giant oilfields are adopting extra security measures in anticipation of retaliatory attacks if the United States strikes neighbouring Syria, industry sources said on Friday.
US, China strike new climate agreement at G-20 summit
2013-09-06 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: The United States and China announced Friday they would seek to eliminate some of the worlds most potent greenhouse gases through the 1987 Montreal Protocol, the landmark treaty that successfully phased out ozone-depleting substances decades ago. The move, announced at the Group of 20 summit in St. Petersburg, is significant because it provides a clear path for curbing a major contributor to global warming in the near term as world leaders grapple with the more challenging task of cutting carbon...
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