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Jim Lobe

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/ 28 February 2007

Activists welcome ICC summons on Darfur

Human rights activists have welcomed the request by the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Tuesday that it issue summonses against a senior Sudanese government official and an Arab militia leader who allegedly played key roles in the deaths of tens of thousands of innocent civilians in Darfur since 2003.

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/ 16 September 2006

WHO looks to DDT for malaria control

In an important policy shift, the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Friday announced that it is urging the use of the pesticide DDT to control the spread of malaria, a mosquito-borne disease that kills about one million people a year, most of whom are infants and young children in Africa.

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/ 18 July 2005

ExxonMobil takes heat on global warming

An unusually broad coalition of 12 United States environmental and public-interest groups launched a national boycott on Tuesday of ExxonMobil, the world’s largest oil company, for undermining efforts to combat global warming and lobbying Congress to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to drilling.

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/ 11 February 2005

Guns, oil and power

When the leader of a powerful gang in the oil-rich Niger Delta, Alhaji Dokubo Asari, threatened to declare "all-out war" last September, global oil prices hit historic highs of more than $50 a barrel. The threat and its immediate consequences underscored how a purely local conflict over control of relatively small amounts of oil can have immediate global consequences.

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