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  • Friday 30th July 2010
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    Friday 30th July 2010
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    This week’s events include:

    • Afghanistan intelligence documents leaked on Wikileaks
    • BP’s CEO steps down as the company confirms huge quarterly loss
    • Billions unaccounted for from Iraq oil fund and Blix calls war illegal
    • Pakistan plane crash kills 152

    Afghanistan intelligence documents leaked on Wikileaks


Last Six Days

Thursday 29th July 2010

The problem of the disappearing bees

Thursday 29th July 2010
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David Bradshaw, an American beekeeper, has spent all his life caring for bees. But in February one year, Bradshaw opened his boxes to find half of his hundred million bees had simply disappeared.

Bradshaw’s experience, reported in the New York Times, sounds like a low rent horror movie. But the mysterious phenomenon dubbed ‘colony collapse disorder’ (CCD) is occurring all over the United States.

And if it continues, CCD may mean the extinction of the crops and food sources we rely on, and eventually, widespread human starvation.

Wednesday 28th July 2010

America’s new Tea Party

Wednesday 28th July 2010
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The American political scene has never been short of colourful characters, from allegations of cross-dressing and marital affairs, to George Bush and Sarah Palin.

Carrying on this tradition is a new force brewing in America, fronted by Sarah Palin, known as the Tea Party movement.

Linked to the Republican right-wing but even more conservative in nature, the Tea Party has attracted a huge amount of media attention and has become a vocal source of opposition.

Tuesday 27th July 2010

BP and the Lockerbie bomber

Tuesday 27th July 2010
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BP Chief Executive Tony Hayward is already unpopular with the American people thanks to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill – the country’s largest ever environmental disaster.

Now a US Senate committee looking into the release of the Lockerbie bomber has invited Hayward – who is expected to announce his resignation this week – to testify as to BP’s involvement.

Monday 26th July 2010

Is there going to be a second recession?

Monday 26th July 2010
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In 2008, fear gripped the financial world in the wake of the US sub-prime mortgage crisis. Since then, governments have spent up large to revive their faltering economies.

That revival has largely gone well, with many beginning the year thinking the worst was over. However, since April, fear has returned to financial markets and to governments.

Friday 23rd July 2010

Around the world in 60 seconds - 23 July 2010

Friday 23rd July 2010
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This week’s events include:

• China battles intense flooding and oil spill
• BP succeeds with oil cap but condemned over Lockerbie bombing
• Goldman Sachs gets record fine while its profits slump
• President Obama signs US financial reform into law

China battles intense flooding and oil spill

Thursday 22nd July 2010

The unsexy wealth of commodities

Thursday 22nd July 2010
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Natural resources like oil and gold are instantly associated with wealth, but there are plenty of other, less glamorous commodities that generate a lot of money – or conflict – for the countries who have them.

Commodities have no real difference in product quality from one unit to the next. They are the raw materials used to make things we buy, from food to electronics to petrol.

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