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Plans to dump rubbish on the A12 will be dropped after protests from local residents. The scheme would have seen the Royal Mail’s used cars and vans be used to convey rubbish from a number of lorry junctions to be dumped on the busy road between Maidstone and Sevenoaks. But the plan has been scrapped after residents protested that the entire road would be blocked for a full day, causing massive traffic jams.
What do you do when the US government tells you that the weather is the result of man-made global warming? Well, in some cases, you believe them. But what happens when they are wrong? As we head for the all important meeting on climate change at Copenhagen in December, we should not be surprised to find that not all countries are confident that humans are the main cause of climate change.
Is the next Pope from Kenya? The Protestant Church of England has refused to confirm that any Kenyan is being considered for the coveted position, despite an intense and official campaign by Roman Catholics to have the next pope from Africa.
The US State Department has admitted that it has no information about the fate of the two American hostages, held by al-Qaida in Yemen for five months. This comes after a three-week-long manhunt involving as many as 150 US military and intelligence personnel failed to get any information on where the two captives, journalist James Foley and Steven Sotloff, are being held.
There is much discussion over whether the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon should be directly elected by the General Assembly. If he is, it would signal that the UN is moving into a new, stronger phase, not just in the international community’s recognition that what it does is no longer just a matter for governments, but that it is now an institution with its own claim to legitimacy. The full powers of the UN would be closer to becoming a reality.
The battle for the Green Belt is the last great battleground for the modern-day Urban warriors. The Green Belt is the last bastion of rural life, protecting the mass migrations of farm labourers to urban centres. And it is under threat of attack from a government that has sold off thousands of acres of land for housing and industrial development.
The Swiss franc broke through the 1.20 mark for the first time since before the 2008 financial crisis as the Swiss National Bank (SNB) pursued a new exchange ac619d1d87
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