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Milk waste leaves big carbon footprint
May 14th
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Waste milk creates a carbon footprint equivalent to thousands of car exhausts, claims a study that highlights the environmental costs of inefficient farming and the aggressive marketing of supermarket food….
Law Firm: Brooks Faces Decision on Hacking Charges
May 14th
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LONDON (AP) — Former News of the World editor and News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks will learn Tuesday whether she faces charges stemming from Britain’s phone hacking investigation, a spokesman for the law firm representing her said Monday. Connect With Us on Twitter Follow @nytimesworld for international breaking news and headlines. Twitter List: Reporters and Editors Kingsley Napley spokesman Paul Askew confirmed reports in Britain’s media that Brooks and her husband, Charlie, would learn of any possible charges when they answered bail on Tuesday. He declined further comment. The 43-year-old Brooks, who resigned in July as head of Rupert Murdoch’s British newspaper…
Americans Train Ugandans for Somalia Mission
May 14th
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Connect With Us on Twitter Follow @nytimesworld for international breaking news and headlines. Twitter List: Reporters and Editors KAKOLA, Uganda (AP) — American military advisers in Uganda are drawing on lessons learned from Iraq and Afghanistan to help train African Union soldiers to fight Somalia’s most powerful insurgent group, al-Shabab. Earlier this year, a small contingent of U.S. Marines joined American military contractors at a training base nestled in Uganda’s rolling countryside, helping fill gaps where the al-Qaida-linked fighters have found weaknesses. The base, called Singo, was built by the U.S. and is a key part of the Obama administration’s strategy to bring stability…
NJ airport: Security supervisor used dead man’s ID
May 14th
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Authorities say a longtime security supervisor at the Newark, N.J., airport has been arrested on a charge he was using…
Mladic tries again to delay his war crimes trial
May 14th
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands-Ratko Mladic has appealed for a six-month delay in the start of his Yugoslav war crimes trial, saying…
Cash stash on crashed plane in Ecuador
May 14th
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QUITO, Ecuador-A Mexican-registered plane carrying two men, a large amount of cash and a dog has crashed in Ecuador…
Decision delayed on London Olympic Stadium future
May 14th
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LONDON-The future of London’s Olympic Stadium may not be resolved until after this summer’s games, following a decision Monday to extend the bidding phase by eight weeks. The London Legacy Development Corporation had been set to decide on a bidder this month but has now pushed the date back to allow potential tenants time to take into account changes made to the tender document since it was published in…
News Summary: Euro ministers push Greece to stay
May 14th
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COURTING GREECE: Leading European Union finance officials on Monday pleaded with Greece not to renege on…
American trainers draw on lessons from a decade of war to train Ugandans for Somalia mission
May 14th
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KAKOLA, Uganda – American military advisers in Uganda are drawing on lessons learned from Iraq and Afghanistan to help train African Union soldiers to fight Somalia’s most powerful insurgent group, al-Shabab. Earlier this year, a small contingent of U.S. Marines joined American military contractors at a training base nestled in Uganda’s rolling countryside, helping fill gaps where the al-Qaida-linked fighters have found weaknesses. The base, called Singo, was built by the U.S. and is a key part of the Obama administration’s strategy to bring stability to Somalia. The U.S. has…
RI governor signs order to recognize same-sex marriages performed out of state
May 14th
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Rhode Island’s governor on Monday declared that the state will recognize same-sex marriages performed elsewhere, giving gay couples the same rights as heterosexual ones when it comes to health insurance and a slew of other benefits. The order signed by Gov. Lincoln Chafee in a Statehouse ceremony directs state agencies to recognize marriages performed out of state as legal and treat same-sex married couples the same as heterosexual ones. Some gay couples married outside Rhode Island — where civil unions are allowed, but gay marriage is illegal — have not been afforded certain rights because state law is not clear on the subject. In 2007, then-Attorney General…