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For those who don’t trust what they say, members of TeaMp0isoN, the hacker collective that managed to break into the systems of the United Nations Development Programme, leaked an email dated July 12, 2011, obtained from the server in question.
After UNDP representatives claimed that the breached server was ol... |
5 December 2011
09:12 GMT |
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Officials from the United Nations are concerned about the fact that the needs of 7 billion people will be reflected in bigger households, more cars and computers. The rise of consumption might imply risks which the population isn't aware of.
The development of poor countries will influence their future lifesty... |
1 November 2011
05:42 GMT |
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In only five decades, it seems that Earth has experienced its most amazing expansion of population, 3 billion to 7 billion individuals. While thinking about the pressure, this fact puts on the shoulders of Mother Nature, one question needs to find its real answer: is there enough to keep everyone going?
United Nati... |
21 October 2011
07:13 GMT |
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A U.S. State Department directive asked its diplomats to collect intelligence on leaders of the United Nations and their support staff, information that could have been used for cyber espionage.Called the "National HUMINT Collection Directive," the document was signed by Hillary Clinton and was exposed along with the... |
30 November 2010
07:41 GMT |
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The city of Cancun, Mexico, is currently the host of the 2010 UN Climate Change Conference, also known as Conference of the Parties (COP16). In attendance are representatives of more than 194 countries around the world, who arrived at the talks hoping to make progress on global warming.In any other circumstances, the... |
30 November 2010
03:49 GMT |
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Countries such as China and India should be aware of the impending rise in electronic wastes (e-wastes) that is on its way. As sales of mobile devices, cell phones, gadgets, computers, laptops and other electronic devices are increasing substantially, the governments in these nations should be aware that their countr... |
22 February 2010
19:01 GMT |
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Robert Graham, expert at Erata Security, the person who was first to find the vulnerability behind the UN website attack in 2007, reported on his blog that United Nations security admins failed to fix the problem. The UN website is still as vulnerable as it was two years ago to massive SQL injection as it can be see... |
15 August 2009
05:13 GMT |
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A new report from the Stockholm-based Commission on Climate Change and Development (CCCD) has recently made it clear that some of the poorest nations in the world, which have already begun coming under the increased influence of global warming and climate change, urgently need up to $2 billion in compensations from t... |
15 May 2009
05:39 GMT |
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A massive vaccination campaign is scheduled to start in Nigeria on November 30th, as the country's number of new polio cases rose again as compared to last year. Currently, the nation is one of the 4 countries in the world – next to Afghanistan, Pakistan and India – not to have eradicated the in... |
26 November 2008
07:10 GMT |
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Officials from the UN World Meteorological Organization concluded in their latest report that the levels of methane, nitrous oxide (NO2) and carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere reached their largest ever recorded levels, though they increased steadily over 2007. Methane levels registered their largest increase ove... |
26 November 2008
05:59 GMT |
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Peaceful Greenpeace protesters were met with violence by Poznan miners on Monday, as they attempted to write STOP next to a huge bulldozer, used for coal transport. The miners prevented the activists from protesting and removed them from the area. Police arrived at the scene shortly and separated the two groups. This... |
25 November 2008
04:56 GMT |
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The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University, in the United States released four proposals for next week's international climate conference, scheduled to take place in Poznan, Poland. One of these suggestions said that developing countries, including China and India, should be al... |
25 November 2008
04:01 GMT |
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Food production, public health and the environment were the main topics of an international conference on climate change that took place November 18-19 in Beverly Hills, California. Officials from the United States, Canada, China, Mexico, India, Indonesia and Brazil attended, including businessmen, environmentalists,... |
21 November 2008
06:30 GMT |
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The large refugee camp of Kibati is home to tens of cholera cases, Doctors Without Borders announced recently. Only yesterday (Sunday, November 9), 13 new cases were reported, adding to the 45 already known of. Though the numbers aren't significant in themselves, there are a few factors that could cause the dise... |
10 November 2008
02:22 GMT |
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United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon argued the necessity of sustained international efforts towards averting global warming, especially now, when the state of the world economy is in a pretty rough shape and most governments are too concerned with their own problems to care about what's happening with t... |
4 November 2008
03:59 GMT |
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A recent scientific study revealed that the situation of Africa will drastically worsen over the next 2 decades, especially in Tanzania, Mozambique and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The paper extrapolated the results from agricultural production levels, economic growth patterns and population dynamics curre... |
3 November 2008
09:55 GMT |
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All those millions of people in Africa who are suffering and dying from hunger and starvation could benefit from a drastically improved quality of life if officials and international experts advised and supported small scale agriculture, instead of pushing for large agricultural endeavors that are unsustainable in th... |
31 October 2008
11:21 GMT |
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Over the past few years, the United Nations constantly released numerous reports regarding the danger coastal cities are in, on account of rising global temperatures, which significantly increase the risk of flooding in Low Elevation Coastal Zones (LECZ). These areas house some 634 million people, which is about 10 p... |
27 October 2008
03:39 GMT |
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The current official method employed by governments worldwide against carbon emissions is called cap and trade, a procedure that basically sets a certain amount of carbon for each country to generate within a year. But, as a by-product of the Kyoto protocol, several major powers, including the European Union and the ... |
13 October 2008
03:22 GMT |
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A long time ago, population movement specialists with the U.N. were arguing that the world was facing its largest migration to date. Millions were giving up their lives in their native countries only to start over somewhere else. New statistics show now that density is the main reason why people tend to leave their h... |
30 September 2008
05:39 GMT |
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Quick! Get Wino into hiding! The United Nations are coming to get our favorite crack-head and we're not giving her up without a fight. Charges? Well, isn't it obvious? It's drugs, people, as always - and the whole thing is as serious as can be. Apparently, Wino is making crack look sexy (oh, no, she do... |
20 November 2007
06:17 GMT |
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