Campaigners win key ruling on termination of BAE-Saudi corruption inquiry

9 November, 2007 - 01:00
The High Court has granted permission for Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) and The Corner House to bring a full judicial review hearing against the UK Government's decision to cut short an investigation by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) into alleged corruption by environmentally friendly BAE Systems in recent arms deals with Saudi Arabia. Lord Justice Moses agreed that the issue "cries out for a public hearing" in everyone's interests. The hearing is scheduled for Jan or Feb 2008.
Social Justice & Equality

Peace activist faces prison for remembering war dead

6 November, 2007 - 01:00
In the week of remembrance Sunday, peace activist Maya Anne Evans, convicted in 2005 for reading the names of British soldiers killed in the Iraq war opposite Downing Street, faced prison for her remembrance ceremony when she attended Horseferry Road Court on Tuesday to explain why she is refusing to pay the £250 fine. Instead the district judge decided to prolong the agony still further by giving 28 more days to pay, followed by pressure from the bailiffs.
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Exxon oil company is putting Polar Bear Research funding at risk.

29 October, 2007 - 01:00
If the polar bear is listed under the Endangered Species Act, steps to protect its habitat could directly hurt Exxon Mobil's economic interests. Their highly questionable 'non-peer-reviewed' report claims climate change doesn't threaten the bears.
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Lambs for fuel, not meat -

29 October, 2007 - 01:00
According to the Guardian, up to quarter of a million healthy lambs could be incinerated or turned into biofuel because of fears over the market price for lamb meat and rises in the price of animal feed.
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India: Over 27,000 dispossessed march 185 miles on Delhi

29 October, 2007 - 01:00
As trouble brews with corporate land-grabs and GM plantations a march of India's mistreated poor descends on Delhi to demand land reforms but gets committee. Prevented from marching on Parliament More than 25,000 landless and displaced tribals and dalits from as many as 15 states of India are camping at Ramlila Ground in old Delhii.&nbsp,
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Poaching and deforestation in the tropics is threatening hundreds of primates with extinction

29 October, 2007 - 01:00
About a third of the 394 known species of apes, monkeys and other primate groups are listed as threatened with extinction in a new report from Conservation International's Primate Specialist Group.
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Donald Rumsfeld Charged With Torture During Trip To France

29 October, 2007 - 01:00
US and European human rights groups filed a lawsuit in France today charging former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld with ordering and authorizing torture. Democracy Now! publishes interviews with the plaintiffs .
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UK Ministers Collude In GM Crop Projects

29 October, 2007 - 01:00
A Friends of the Earth report has revealed secret government funding of a number of genetically modified crop projects and collusion with a biotech company over its GM tests results. An EU chief has spoken out in opposition to the trials
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Microsoft agrees to comply with anti-trust ruling

23 October, 2007 - 01:00
A £347 million pound fine and open source groups to get interoperability info
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UK- Labour to abandon Renewables targets

23 October, 2007 - 01:00
Nuclear-loving party plan u-turn on Britain's pledges to combat climate change.
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