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    • In this photo taken Sept. 15, 2009, a forest in the Amazon is seen being illegally burnt, near Novo Progresso, in the northern Brazilian state of Para.Brazil celebrates 45% reduction in Amazon deforestation.....
    • A police offensive and the global economic crisis have combined to produce the largest fall in more than 20 years Deforestation in Novo Progresso, Pará, in 2004 was the second worst on record. Photograph: Alberto Cesar/Greenpeace/AP The Brazilian government yesterday announced a "historic" drop in the deforestation of the Amazon, weeks before world leaders meet in Copenhagen for talks. Brazilian authorities said that between August 2008 and July this year, deforestation in the world's largest...
    • Islamic Center of AmericaUS mosques and New York skyscraper seized over Iran links.....
    • Federal investigators moved to seize four mosques in the US and a skyscraper inManhattan yesterday over their alleged financialaid to , in an extraordinary step likely to worsen relations between Washington and Tehran. Prosecutors in Manhattan filed a civil complaint in the federal court seeking the forfeiture of more than $500m in assets of the Alavi Foundation, which describes itself as a charitable foundation, and a company, Assa. The mosques are in City,.
    • The Islamic Education Center, a grade school and mosque in Houston, is photographed on Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009.US moves against Iran Muslim group.....
    • US federal prosecutors have moved to seize four mosques and a New York tower block owned by a nonprofit Muslim organisation with alleged financial ties to Iran. The prosecutors on Thursday filed a civil complaint in a US federalcourt seeking the forfeiture of more than $500m in assets of the Alavi Foundation and an alleged front company. Prosecutors say the foundation has been helping to illegally send money back to the Iranian government. The assets include Islamic centres in New...
    • a burned area of the Amazon rain forest is seen in Para, Brazil (dn1)Brazil: Deforestation Sees Biggest Drop In 20 Yrs....
    • Brazil Reports Largest Amazon Deforestation Drop In The 2 Decades Since Monitoring Began Font size Print E-mail Share (AP) (AP) BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) - Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon dropped nearly 46 percent from August 2008 to July 2009 - the biggest annual decline in two decades, the government said Thursday. Analysis of satellite imagery by...
    • Sunbed - Women - Technology - Health hf1 Under-18s to be banned from using sunbeds to cut cancer risk.....
    • • Legislation planned after voluntary action byindustry fails • Studies show worrying levels of sunbed use by young people A customer at a tanning salon. Cases of malignant melanoma, an aggressive form of skin cancer, are rising fast. Photograph: Murdo Macleod Under-18s will be banned from visiting sunbed salons in a move by the government to reduce the risk of young people developing skin . Gillian Merron, the public health minister, said that voluntary action by the sunbed industry to stop...