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18 hrs ago | Kelowna Capital News

Close Okanagan to control growth

By Judie Steeves - Kelowna Capital News Published: May 15, 2013 3:00 PM Updated: May 15, 2013 3:13 PM "Developers won't like it, but lots of people are fed up with increased density," notes renowned ecologist David Schindler, of the University of Alberta.

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Related Topix: Natural Disasters, Canada

20 hrs ago | National Geographic

Picture of Ethiopian children

Lale Labuko co-founded Omo Child to stop the ritualistic killing of infants and children in the Omo River Valley of Ethiopia and provide safe shelter, care, and education for the children he rescues.

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Related Topix: Hampshire College, Weather, Natural Disasters, Drought

Thu May 16, 2013

Tampa Bay Newspapers

Teenagers fast to fight global hunger

A group of teens from Lutheran Church of the Palms recently sacrificed a weekend during Lent to participate in World Vision's 30-Hour Famine - an event where teenagers fast for 30 hours, learn about global hunger and raise funds to feed and care for hungry children in their community and around the world.

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Related Topix: Family, Teenagers, Religion, Lutheran Church, Natural Disasters, Kids, Fasting, Health, Tarpon Springs, FL

Booker Rising

Alex Njeru: "Let Somalia Take Care Of Itself"

Asserts the Kenyan libertarian, about his country's troubled neighbor : "The Somali problem though requires a home-based solution and by home-based I mean a solution that births and comes from Somalia itself.

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Related Topix: Natural Disasters

AlertNet

The UMCOR Hotline for May 15, 2013

As Somalia struggles to meet the daunting task of recovering from decades of raging civil strife and no effective government - not to mention the recurring blows of drought and famine - few challenges are greater than that of education.

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Related Topix: Somalia, World News, Africa, Weather, Natural Disasters, Drought

English Dong-A

Value of insects

Value of insects . MAY 16, 2013 06:27. . In 1990, malnutrition was rampant among children in Vietnam.

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Related Topix: Entomology, Science, Agriculture, Natural Disasters, Netherlands, World News,

Wed May 15, 2013

The Recorder

'Beyond Genocide'

Through the ages, they have faced frequent natural disasters, armed conflict, and political repression, and in the process they have suffered hunger, societal disruption and death.

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Related Topix: Natural Disasters, New Salem, MA

Food Technology

UN endorses Australian's call for five portions of insects a day

A book released this week by the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation's forestry department attempts to persuade Westerners that they should see insects as a potential key food source for the future.

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Related Topix: Entomology, Agriculture, Life, Food, Medicine, Natural Disasters, Nutrition

WorthyNews

Stay in Faith, No Matter What

James 5:11 Indeed we count them blessed who endure. You have heard of the perseverance of Job and seen the end intended by the Lord - that the Lord is very compassionate and merciful.

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Related Topix: Natural Disasters, Israel, Middle East, World News

Tue May 14, 2013

Houston Press

Here, Eat This: A Beginner's Guide to Ethiopian Cuisine

People unfamiliar with African cuisines often tend to lump them all in together: East African, West African, North African...what's the difference? We don't lump German and Italian food together simply because they share a border, however, nor do we regard Indian and Chinese as the same because they share a continent.

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Related Topix: Natural Disasters, Life, Food, World News, Ethiopia, Baked Goods, Bread

Lake Cowichan Gazette

Biking can be very good for your health

INVESTMENT advisors and stock brokers often use the phrase "climbing a wall of worry," an image meant to encourage investors by noting that investing in the future can still be worthwhile, even when that future looks grim.

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Related Topix: Natural Disasters, End Times, Non-Profit, Opinion

AllAfrica.com

Ethiopia: DFID Fail to Act on Human Rights Violations

The Ethiopian government may be guilty of atrocities against indigenous peoples as it completes construction of the Gibe III dam.

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Related Topix: Natural Disasters, Flood, Africa, World News

Mon May 13, 2013

Walta Information Centre

Boomtown Ethiopia - " Can former poster child nation become a model for African growth

Once it was USA for Africa, now Ethiopia's expats are returning to be part of a striving new middle class.

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Related Topix: World News, Ethiopia, Africa, Natural Disasters

Washington Post

Federal Faces: Cara Christie of USAID

Best known for: In 2011 and 2012, Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia were reeling from the region's worst drought and famine in 60 years.

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Related Topix: Weather, Natural Disasters, Drought, Agriculture, Science, US News, Liberal Political News

Wall Street Journal

The Ninth Circle of Sell

Tiny letters in a Renaissance painting, unnoticed for centuries, are a clue that might help Robert Langdon avert global famine.

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Related Topix: Natural Disasters, Italy, World News, Opinion

Sun May 12, 2013

Examiner.com

6th century Justinianic Plague bacteria DNA strain identified

If you're wondering what the real reason behind the fall of the Roman Empire was, it probably began with the mini-ice age of 535 CE that destroyed most of the world's food supply and raised the rat population resulting in the frantic escape from starvation by the Scythians, Huns, and other peoples migrating from Central Asia via the Caspian Sea and ... (more)

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Related Topix: Epidemic, Natural Disasters, Weather, Drought

BreakingNews.ie

President honours Famine victims

Remembering the victims of the Great Famine should encourage Irish people to intervene wherever there is injustice and hunger around the world, the President has said.

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Chico Enterprise-Record

Portuguese club to host annual Festa on May 19

A mass, crowning of queens and a feast are planned May 19 by the Portuguese Holy Ghost Fatima Club during its annual Festa.

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Related Topix: Natural Disasters

Sat May 11, 2013

CNN

Mujib to Pharaoh (Feraun) , Hasina to Lady Hitler

Sheikh Mujib Was the founder president of Bangladesh.After become a president he attacked brutally opposition,media and every sectors of newly gained independent Bangladesh.

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Related Topix: Bangladesh, World News, Asia, Natural Disasters

Jamaica Observer

Cheap goods, disposable lives

IT is one of those sad and inescapable facts of life: the poor always pay - with their health and all too often, with their lives.

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Related Topix: Bangladesh, Asia, World News, Natural Disasters