Climate protesters demonstrating against Donald Trump’s plans for a sports resort broke into a Scottish airport Tuesday, setting up a small golf course and scaling the roof of a terminal building. Flights at Aberdeen airport were returning to normal by midday after the activists breached the security fence overnight, the airport authority said
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The Planet’s Ultimate Backup Plan: Svalbard
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault turned one on Feb.
China accuses U.S. of interference
China accused the United States of interfering in its internal affairs and those of other nations on Thursday after the State Department issued a report sharply critical of Beijing’s human rights record, state-run media reported.
State Department scolds China on human rights
The State Department issued a report Wednesday sharply critical of China’s human rights record, despite the Obama administration’s decision to take a different approach to the Asian country. “The government of China’s human rights record remained poor and worsened in some areas,” the report said in reviewing the last year, finding Chinese authorities “committed extrajudicial killings and torture, coerced confessions of prisoners and used forced labor.” The “2008 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices,” the annual report of human rights around the world, also accused China of “severe cultural and religious repression” of minorities in Tibet and other regions and increasing harassment and detention of dissidents and activists who signed a petition calling for respect of human rights. China limits the rights of citizens to privacy and freedom of speech, assembly, movement and association, the report said.
Clinton sets framework for U.S.-Asia relations
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Clinton: Chinese ‘human rights can’t interfere’ with other crises
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton broached the issue of human rights with Chinese leaders Saturday, but emphasized that the world economic and other crises are more pressing and immediate priorities. “Human rights cannot interfere with the global economic crisis, the global climate change crisis and the security crises,” Clinton said in talks with China’s foreign minister
Clinton: China and U.S. must have a positive relationship
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met with China’s top leaders Saturday, the last and most crucial stop-over in her Asia trip, signaling the new U.S.
Will Killing Whales Save the World’s Fisheries?
Despite anything you may have heard to the contrary, whale meat does not taste good.
Five places to go before global warming messes them up
Scientists expect some great travel spots to be altered or ruined by global climate change. Some of the changes are already taking place
Will Beijing Respond to Clinton’s Wish List?
North Korea has a long history of communicating with the United States through provocation and brinksmanship, and it has played to type ahead of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s four-nation trip to Asia that began Sunday. In recent weeks, Pyongyang has annulled its maritime border with South Korea, renounced the nonaggression agreement between the two countries, and moved missiles and equipment around in ways that could signal preparations for a launch, according to U.S. officials.