Positive news from East Timor
Indonesia Creates the Savu Marine Park, Largest in Southeast AsiaIndonesia has opened Southeast Asia's largest marine park in the Savu Sea, a migration route for almost half the world's whale species and home to vast tracts of rare coral, the country's fisheries minister said. |
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Indonesia Creates the Savu Marine Park, Largest in Southeast AsiaIndonesia has opened Southeast Asia's largest marine park in the Savu Sea, a migration route for almost half the world's whale species and home to vast tracts of rare coral, the country's fisheries minister said. |
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Skies to be swept for alien lifeHat Creek, California - The switch has been thrown on a telescope specifically designed to seek out alien life. |
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Al Gore & IPCC Share Nobel Peace Prize For 2007Oslo, Norway - The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 is to be shared, in two equal parts, between the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr. for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change. |
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East Timor hit squad surrenders gunsEast Timor - The leader of a hit squad allegedly armed on the orders of East Timor's former prime minister has surrendered his weapons to the government. |
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East Timor rebels agree to disarmEast Timor - The leader of East Timor's rebels has promised to begin handing weapons to foreign peacekeepers. |
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