Great Lakes leaders pledge peace
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Presidents of the Great Lakes region in Africa have signed a declaration designed bring peace to the region.
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By Dennis Lien, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn.  Feb. 12--The Minnesota Senate gave preliminary approval today to a bill committing the state to a common set of standards protecting Great Lakes water, positioning Minnesota to take a lead role among Great Lakes states.
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African leaders put final touches on a new, U.N.-backed peace plan for the troubled Great Lakes countries on Saturday amid fresh allegations of gun-running, abuse and violence in the vast, volatile region.
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By Dennis Lien, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn.  Feb. 13--Minnesota could become the first state to commit to a common set of standards protecting Great Lakes water under a measure backed Monday in the state Senate.   An agreement called the Great Lakes-St.
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African leaders meet in an effort to end a decade of wars that have killed millions in the Great Lakes region.
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African leaders have a landmark two-billion-dollar (1.5-billion-euro) security and development pact to prevent further violence in the continent's Great Lakes region, one of the world's bloodiest areas.
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TORONTO (CP) - A new report says the health of the Great Lakes is mixed, and while the ecosystem is improving in some ways, there are many areas of troubling concern.  The report by Environment Canada and the U.S.
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UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has called for a comprehensive peace plan for Africa&#39;s Great Lakes region, where millions have died in civil wars in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda and Burundi.
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&quot;I think it&#39;s very important for our friends, the Israelis, to have a peaceful Palestinian state living on their border. And it&#39;s very important for the Palestinian people to have a peaceful
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By Tina Lam, Detroit Free Press  Dec. 19--Margo Marks was surprised when she heard in August that the Coast Guard was planning to set up live firing zones, where machine-gun bullets would fly several times a year, throughout the Great Lakes.
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Fifteen African presidents and UN chief Kofi Annan signed a common declaration pledging to promote peace and security in the continent's volatile Great Lakes region.
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TRAVERSE CITY -- President George W. Bush took the occasion of a boisterous re-election rally Monday in Traverse City to pledge his protection of Great Lakes water.
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The United States and Canada signed a declaration on Friday that outlines a plan to clean up the Great Lakes and the major waterways that feed them.
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Nobel Peace Prize laureates, politicians, artists, writers, and sportsmen and women from across the world added their voices on Wednesday to the growing clamor for China to help bring peace in Darfur.
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By Bob Downing, The Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio Sep. 23--CLEVELAND -- Problems on the Great Lakes are approaching the tipping point and environmentalists need to intensify their push for Congress to fund restoration efforts on the lakes.
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By Tom Henry, The Blade, Toledo, Ohio  Dec. 17--THE GREAT LAKES WATER WARS. By Peter Annin. Island Press. 304 pages.
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By Tom Henry, The Blade, Toledo, Ohio  Sep. 23--CLEVELAND -- Gov. Bob Taft said yesterday that a pair of congressional bills calling for an unprecedented $20 billion in Great Lakes cleanup funds could become a key election issue this fall and in the 2008 presidential election.