Canada will formally withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol on climate change, the minister of the environment has said. Peter Kent said the protocol “does not represent a way forward for Canada” and the country would face crippling fines for failing to meet its targets. The move, which is legal and was expected, makes it the [...]
Pakistan may continue its blocking of Nato convoys into Afghanistan for weeks, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has toldthe press. Pakistan stopped the convoys in protest at US air strikes which killed 24 of its troops at two checkpoints on the Afghan border last month. Mr Gilani refused to rule out closing Pakistan’s airspace to [...]
Thousands of people have attended the biggest anti-government rally in the Russian capital Moscow since the fall of the Soviet Union. As many as 50,000 people gathered on an island near the Kremlin to condemn alleged ballot-rigging in parliamentary elections and demand a re-run. Other, smaller rallies took place in St Petersburg and other cities. [...]
Canada pulls out of Kyoto
Russian elections:Biggest protests since fall of USSR
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Nato convoys Blocked
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