Indonesia's Aceh revokes palm permit after legal challenge

Indonesia's Aceh revokes palm permit after legal challenge

Indonesia's Aceh revokes palm permit after legal challenge

Posted: 27 Sep 2012 11:18 PM PDT

A excavator clears a ditch on a road owned by a disputed palm oil plantation firm near Sebangau KualaJAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's Aceh province has revoked a controversial permit issued to a palm oil firm accused of breaching a ban on forest clearing, a spokesman said on Friday, in a rare climbdown following a legal challenge by environmental groups. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has set a goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions by saving Indonesia's dwindling tropical rainforests, the world's third-largest, a pledge that won the promise of $1 billion from Norway should he succeed. ...

VIDEO: Missing Megan not in French news

Posted: 27 Sep 2012 11:17 AM PDT

Reaction to the missing schoolgirl Megan Stammers in France is limited, with the law and media apparently believing she can think for herself.


VIDEO: Plane crashes in Nepal capital

Posted: 27 Sep 2012 09:32 PM PDT

A plane heading for the Everest region has crashed in the Nepalese capital, killing all 19 people on board.


VIDEO: Mars images 'show old streambed'

Posted: 27 Sep 2012 10:49 PM PDT

Nasa's Curiosity rover has only been on the surface of Mars seven weeks but it has already turned up evidence of past flowing water on the planet.


Indonesia's Aceh revokes palm permit after legal challenge

Posted: 27 Sep 2012 11:18 PM PDT

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's Aceh province has revoked a controversial permit issued to a palm oil firm accused of breaching a ban on forest clearing, a spokesman said on Friday, in a rare climbdown following a legal challenge by environmental groups.

Livefyre's StreamHub Brings RealTime Social Conversations To Publishers

Posted: 27 Sep 2012 07:23 PM PDT

Livefyre has expanded its product offering with Streamhub, which allows brands real time management of social communication.


Karl Rove Says Obama's Main Obstacle Is Truth in the Coming Debates

Posted: 27 Sep 2012 07:14 PM PDT

Karl Rove, a former deputy chief of staff to President George W. Bush, recently wrote an opinion piece that is making some waves in his column on the Wall Street Journal yesterday that guides Republican strategy by advising Mitt Romney to call out the misstatements of the president without actually calling [...]


Curiosity Finds Evidence Of Ancient Stream On Mars

Posted: 27 Sep 2012 07:04 PM PDT

Mars rover Curiosity has found the remnants of an ancient streambed on Mars, providing still more evidence that water once flowed freely there.


VIDEO: Mars images 'show old streambed'

Posted: 27 Sep 2012 10:49 PM PDT

Nasa's Curiosity rover has only been on the surface of Mars seven weeks but it has already turned up evidence of past flowing water on the planet.


Kenyan forces 'capture' Somali rebel bastion

Posted: 27 Sep 2012 10:59 PM PDT

Kenyan troops capture port city of Kismayo, last rebel stronghold of al-Shabab fighters, military spokesman says.


Does Japan's LDP Have a Winner in Former PM Abe? I am Betting on Noda.

Posted: 27 Sep 2012 06:37 PM PDT

Prime Minister Noda has proved an effective leader for Japan. There is no one now on the horizon in any political party--and certainly not the LDP's Abe--who deserves to take his place. I am betting on Noda to win the next election.


Return to Ravnica: Evaluating Selesnya

Posted: 27 Sep 2012 06:31 PM PDT

Magic: The Gathering Return to Ravnica prerelease events begin this weekend, and we're taking our look at the fifth and final guild today – Selesnya.  With the populate mechanic and a horde of king size creatures at their disposal, the Selesnya guild is the option of choice for players who [...]


Take Heart 'Game of Thrones' Fans: Second City Comedy Promises 'It Gets Better'

Posted: 27 Sep 2012 06:24 PM PDT

In 2010, writer Dan Savage and his partner Terry Miller created a YouTube video that promised LGBTQ youth that life will improve when they leave high school, a video that inspired the It Gets Better Project. The LGBTQ community is not the only group that requires a supportive video: Fans of George R.R. Martin's saga, A Song of Ice and Fire, who have had to suffer through multiple deaths and dismemberment over the course of many books, as well as the television series, Game of Thrones, need to know their pain means something.


Kenya says Somali rebel city falls; fighting near beach

Posted: 27 Sep 2012 11:21 PM PDT

NAIROBI/MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Kenyan and Somali government troops captured Somalia's southern port of Kismayu, the al Shabaab militant group's last major bastion, the Kenyan military said on Friday, but residents said there was fighting just outside the city. "(A report that) Kismayu fell today to KDF (Kenyan Defense Forces) and TFG (Somali government troops) forces is indeed very true," military spokesman Cyrus Oguna told Kenya's Citizen television. ...


Rwanda and Congo at odds over M23 rebels in Congo

Posted: 27 Sep 2012 10:29 PM PDT

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon joined hands with the leaders of Rwanda and Congo at a high-level meeting aimed at ending the crisis in eastern Congo but the attempt at unity was short-lived. The two presidents remained deeply at odds over responsibility for the escalating violence.


World powers urge Syria opposition to unite

Posted: 27 Sep 2012 10:14 PM PDT

Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi addresses the 67th session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)Western nations and allies in the Middle East meet Friday to urge Syria's fractured opposition to unite, seeking a new path for ending the country's conflict amid deadlock between major powers on the U.N. Security Council.

Kenya says Somali rebel city falls; fighting near beach

Posted: 27 Sep 2012 11:21 PM PDT

NAIROBI/MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Kenyan and Somali government troops captured Somalia's southern port of Kismayu, the al Shabaab militant group's last major bastion, the Kenyan military said on Friday, but residents said there was fighting just outside the city.

VIDEO: Imelda Marcos shoe collection damaged

Posted: 27 Sep 2012 10:17 PM PDT

Officials at the museum where the famous shoe collection of Imelda Marcos is have admitted that some of the belongings have been damaged


VIDEO: Tracking the 'kings of camouflage'

Posted: 27 Sep 2012 04:09 PM PDT

Researchers are tagging cuttlefish in a bid to find out more about the animal's behaviour.


Nepal plane crashes minutes after take-off

Posted: 27 Sep 2012 11:02 PM PDT

At least 19 people killed after small aircraft plunges into the banks of a river on the outskirts of capital Kathmandu.


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