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(NYT) YANGON, Myanmar — Myanmar’s ruling military junta gave no sign to the United Nations secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, that it was prepared to accept any outside pressure about the future of democracy here, rejecting his request on Saturday to visit the opposition leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and offering […]

 The Road to Italy’s 2009 G8 Summit - all major meetings since the G8 Summit of 2008
Kimon Valaskakis writes for the G8 Summit on Corporate Social Responsibility KV CSR for G8 PDF
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(Reuters) FACTBOX: Themes And Scenarios For G8 Summit In Italy
The talks are expected to focus on the state of the world economy, […]

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She never ceases to surprise - and on the eve of The Fourth.
Palin announces resignation
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin announced Friday that she was resigning her office later this month, a stunning decision that could free her to run for president more easily but also raises questions about her political […]

BBC Iran country profile ; Iran on Wednesday-Night.com ; Search NYT for Iran ; Slate: Why the Islamic republic has such a youthful population ; Iran on the Economist ; Huffington Post Iran Uprising Live-Blogging ; The Land of Nod

Who killed Neda? Not us, Iran claims
(National Post Comment) … according to Iran’s Press […]

See also Iraq 5 years later ; U.S. Foreign Policy ; Iraq news on Wednesday-Night.com
Bidding war for Iraq’s huge oil contracts sputters into life
(The Independent) Iraq is locked in a struggle with the world’s largest oil companies over contracts that would see “Big Oil” return to the Iraqi oilfields for the first time in almost […]

More on Water and on Wednesday-Night.com     Thirst a powerful slide show on water ; Stockholm International Water Institute ; Nanotechnology for clean water
Clean Water Should Be Recognized as a Human Right
Firstly, access to clean water can substantially reduce the global burden disease caused by water-borne infections. Secondly, the privatization of water—as witnessed in Bolivia, Ghana […]

More on aviation and airlines and Wednesday-night.com ; Financial Times December 2008
France had banned Yemeni crash plane
(FT) Second air tragedy for French in matter of weeks after Yemenia Air jet accident kills 66 nationals out of 153 on board
Round-world flight planned for solar-powered plane 
A solar-powered plane its inventor hopes will […]

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Background Canadian Arctic Sovereignty prepared by staff of the Parliamentary Information and Research Service (PIRS) of the Library of Parliament ; The Arctic: Questions and Resources (Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada) ; More on the Arctic
David Jones: Canada’s claim to the Northwest Passage
Canada is ‘Arctic superpower’: Cannon      
Downplaying Russia’s recent […]

(Reuters/Planet Ark) Member states of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) voted to locate their headquarters in the United Arab Emirates, Egypt’s state news agency MENA said on Monday. … IRENA’s innovation and technology center would be located in Bonn and that an office for contacts to the U.N. would also be set up in […]

More on oil ; Wednesday-Night.com Alberta and Oil Notes
Liquid Asset The Canadian dean of the discipline, the University of Alberta’s David Schindler, wrote in 2006 that Alberta, along with Saskatchewan and Manitoba, will soon face “a crisis in water quantity and quality with far-reaching implications.”

Chris Schwarz / Edmonton Journal
Andrew Nikiforuk: A public tarring […]