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Egypt opened its border with the Gaza Strip last week in a radical move that upends the 30-year-old alliance between the US, Israel and Egypt under the rule of President Hosni Mubarak. The Egyptian foreign minister described the blockade of 1.6 million Palestinians in Gaza as “disgusting”. Soon Egypt will reopen diplomatic links with Iran. [...]

Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere have reached a new peak despite the economic recession in western countries and assurances from politicians that they intend to cut emissions, new research has shown. Preliminary data from the US government’s Earth Systems Research Laboratory at Mauna Loa in Hawaii, where measurements of CO2 have been continuously monitored [...]

The average price of staple foods will more than double in the next 20 years, leading to an unprecedented reversal in human development, Oxfam has warned. The world’s poorest people, who spend up to 80% of their income of food, will be hit hardest according to the charity. It said the world is entering an [...]

Former SAS soldiers and other western employees of private security companies are helping Nato identify targets in the Libyan port city of Misrata, the scene of heavy fighting between Muammar Gaddafi’s forces and rebels, well-placed sources have told the Guardian. Special forces veterans are passing details of the locations and movements of Gaddafi’s forces to [...]

On the anniversary of its deadly takeover of the aid flotilla to Gaza, in which nine Turkish activists died in a confrontation with navy commandos, Israel is preparing to block the next flotilla as well. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel prefers a diplomatic move to thwart the flotilla expected at the end of June, [...]

Of all the statistics that President Obama’s national security team will consider when it debates the size of forthcoming troop reductions in Afghanistan, the most influential number probably will not be how many insurgents have been killed or the amount of territory wrested from the Taliban, according to aides to those who will participate. It [...]

Yesterday, Chevron’s Annual General Meeting of shareholders kicked off at the San Ramon headquarters of the California-based oil giant. Chevron’s CEO John Watson, its Board of Directors and shareholders were greeted by over 150 activists, who had traveled to San Ramon from regions the world over, from Angola to Indonesia, from Alaska to Ecuador, to [...]

San Francisco’s Center on Race, Poverty and the Environment CRPE announced today that it received the judge’s writ in its lawsuit against the California Air Resources Board CARB. The writ gives the green light to most of the policies advanced under AB32, California’s Global Warming Solutions Act, but puts a permanent hold on cap and [...]

South African President Jacob Zuma arrived in Libyan capital city of Tripoli on Monday as part of efforts aimed at finding a peaceful solution to the ongoing conflict in the north African country between forces loyal to Col. Moammar Qadhafi and rebels fighting his autocratic regime. Zuma was received at the airport on arrival by [...]