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...POLLUTION 750,000 Number of Chinese who die prematurely each year due to the effects of pollution, according to data that was deleted from a World Bank study at the request of the Chinese government and was recently published in the Financial Times 16 Number of the world's 20 most polluted cities that are in China...
...Hamas' efforts to free the journalist weren't necessarily altruistic. Democratically elected to power in the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and Gaza in January 2006, Hamas is locked in a fierce struggle with the Fatah movement loyal to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who is backed by the West. This rivalry culminated in Hamas ousting Fatah's armed forces from Gaza after six days of gun battles last month. Abbas retaliated by firing Hamas Prime Minister Ismael Haniyeh and his cabinet, but Haniyeh has refused to step down. The Islamic militants of Hamas are anxious to show Palestinians...
...violence against Israel. Britain, which along with the U.S. has steadfastly refused to deal with Hamas, found itself negotiating directly with Haniyeh. Sacked by Abbas after the Gaza clashes, Haniyeh continues to run a Hamas phantom government in Gaza. In contrast to Abbas, whose own authority in the West Bank is shaky, Hamas can now rightly say that it is fully in control of Gaza. Freeing Johnston will help Hamas achieve a measure of international respectability, and, according to Palestinian analysts, the move may pave the way toward the release of another Gaza hostage, Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit...
...third company, Oil and Natural Gas Corporation, to its list of companies to divest from. Although Harvard does not have a direct stake in ONGC, it does own more than $1.5 million worth of shares in the company through funds managed by the Blackstone Group and the British Bank Barclays...
...British company negotiated massive contracts to supply Saudi Arabia. Both BAE and Bandar have categorically denied the allegation of any wrongdoing, claiming they acted properly and lawfully at all times. Bandar has admitted that the money came into accounts related to his signature at the now-defunct Riggs Bank in Washington, D.C., but says these were official Saudi accounts rather than personal ones, and that all the payments went to the Saudi government...