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30.09.2004 Rules for managing environmental issues are increasingly set at the global level. But both researchers and the people who put such rules into effect find that there is frequently a mismatch between global policy, the economic models used by decision-makers responsible for putting policy into effect, and local realities.

30.09.2004 BRUSSELS, Belgium — The European Union's environment commissioner designate hinted Wednesday that not all E.U. countries will be ready on time to start the Kyoto Protocol's emissions trading scheme to reduce greenhouse gases.

30.09.2004 Today the Russian government is examining a draft federal law on ratification of the Kyoto Protocol on global climate change, which can come into force only if Russia ratifies.

30.09.2004 MOSCOW, Russia, September 30, 2004 (ENS) - Today the Russian government is examining a draft federal law on ratification of the Kyoto Protocol on global climate change, which can come into force only if Russia ratifies.

30.09.2004 Tens of thousands of weary storm survivors are being deprived of life-saving food and water supplies as the government fails to disarm gangs holding up aid convoys.

29.09.2004 Two Italian female aid workers kidnapped in Iraq two weeks ago have been released and handed over to Italian officials in Baghdad.

29.09.2004 British taxpayers are subsidising private companies at least £7m a year to use prison labour that some even fail to pay for - Mark Barnsley of Red Pepper reports.

29.09.2004 Vaikka selonteon analyysi turvallisuusympäristöstä on paikkansapitävä, resurssien jaossa perinteinen maanpuolustus korostuu suhteettomasti jälleen kerran, toteavat Rauhanliitto ja Sadankomitea. Järjestöjen mukaan selonteossa ei puututa riittävästi esimerkiksi asevelvollisuuden vaihtoehtoihin ja kriisinhallintaan sekä rauhanturvalain mahdolliseen muuttamiseen.

28.09.2004 BEIJING, Sep 28 (IPS) - China is mounting a quiet but steady opposition to Japan's bid to seek a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council, which has the power to introduce sanctions and authorise the use of force in conflicts.

28.09.2004 Američki ambasador u Skoplju Lorens Batler upozorio je Makedoniju da će eventualno pozitivan ishod referenduma o teritorijalnoj organizaciji zaustaviti njen put u evroatlantske integracije.

28.09.2004 More than 100 NGOs are calling on Council of Europe member states in Strasbourg on 28 September to boost efforts to protect victims of trafficking.

28.09.2004 On the first birthday of the caracol, a trio of ski-masked representatives of the 14-member Junta de Buen Gobierno Altos de Chiapas, or Altos de Chiapas Good Government Committee, are squeezed together behind a tiny desk inside a small wooden house whose façade is draped with a mural depicting a giant ear of corn on which all the kernels are ski-masked Zapatistas.

28.09.2004 Analiza rezultata proslonedeljnih lokalnih izbora u novosadskoj opstini pokazuju da 80% apstinentskog tela /koje je iznosilo 62,2 odsto!/ cine mladi izmedju 18 i 25 godina. U drugi krug za izbor gradonacelnika usli su kandidat Srpske radikalne stranke - Maja Gojkovic sa 42,1 odsto glasova i Borislav Novakovic /Demokratska stranka/ sa 32,8 odsto glasova.

27.09.2004 A América Latina vive um momento ideal para fazer frente à exploração que vem sofrendo por parte dos países ricos. Disse o líder cubano Fidel Castro por ocasião de um conferência mista Cuba-Venezuela, este fim de semana em Havana. Fidel Castro convocou os povos latino-americanos a se unirem em prol de reformas sociais semelhantes às que vem sendo promovidas na Venezuela.

27.09.2004 Të martën në Vjenë do të mbahet një takim në nivel ekspertësh ku do të marrin pjesë përfaqësuesit e Kosovës, UNMIK-ut dhe Beogradit.

27.09.2004 The Ontario government has chased out an Ohio-based diagnostic health clinic that was planning to offer fee-based services from mobile vans. Life Line Screening's services are already available for free under Canadian medicare. "These companies prey on fear," said Ontario Health Minister George Smitherman. "They create business by generating a sense of need around services."

27.09.2004 Controversy rages in the labour movement as Canadian Labour Congress president Ken Georgetti tries to explain media reports that he now supports free trade. Georgetti insists CLC policy is to continue to oppose NAFTA and other similar trade deals. But a CLC position paper on the subject says free trade is not the "economic disaster" once predicted.

27.09.2004 The role of the State as a public regulator is grossly compromised as it does not possess the ability to negotiate on behalf of public policy and abdicates its role in favour of the powerful private sector, says Sunita Narain director, Centre for Science and Environment.

24.09.2004 A plan to require automakers to cut greenhouse gas emissions from cars and trucks by about 30 percent is expected to be approved on Thursday by the California Air Resources Board, backers and opponents said.

The plan, the first of its kind among U.S. states, would phase in reductions of carbon dioxide and other gases linked to global warming in two four-year steps for cars and trucks sold in California from 2009 through 2016.

24.09.2004 GLAND, Switzerland, September 23, 2004 (ENS) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has instructed six key ministers to sign the ratification documents for the Kyoto climate protocol, an international environmental group said Wednesday.