UN concern over Olympic pollution
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Air pollution in Beijing will not significantly improve before next year's Olympic Games, a UN report suggests.
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By Li Fangchao  Experts and the public have expressed strong concern over the possible environmental impact of the construction of a massive chemical plant in Xiamen, East China's Fujian Province, Outlook Weekly reported yesterday.
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176 Days until Opening Ceremonies BRITS BACK DOWN An outcry from athletes, human rights advocates and other groups prompted British Olympic officials to retreat from a threat to send British Olympians home if they criticized China's political policies during the Olympics. British Olympic Associat...
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Urgent investment is needed in North Korea to deal with serious environmental problems that have depleted the countryâs forests, contaminated water supplies and polluted the air, the United Nationsâ top environmental official has said.
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By Steve Bloomfield  Climate change has become a major security issue that could lead to "a world going up in flames", the United Nations' top environment official has warned.
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The UN&#39;s nuclear watchdog raised concerns on Monday about material and equipment from Saddam Hussein&#39;s regime, which could be used to make a nuclear weapon and have since vanished in Iraq.
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SEOUL The forests in North Korea are depleted, its rivers and streams are filled with runoff from factories and the country&#39;s reliance on coal energy has created severe urban air pollution, the United Nations said on Friday in its first report on the
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The international community must respond more quickly to climate change, species extinction, dwindling supplies of fresh water and other threats to the planet, the U.N. Environment Program warned Thursday.
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Officials for London&#39;s 2012 games bid are hoping that the International Olympic Committee&#39;s decision to recommend the expulsion of a Bulgarian member alleged in a BBC programme to be involved in corruption will not undermine its bid.
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The 2012 Olympic Games needs to use London's waterways if it is to deliver its promise of staging the greenest games in history.
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The World Health Organization on Thursday called on governments to improve air quality in their cities, saying air pollution prematurely kills two million people a year, with more than half the deaths in developing countries.
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Spitting, pollution, dirty toilets, text messages advertising weapons and a nationalistic sports media -- Beijing officials admitted on Wednesday they had many problems to face some 500 days before the Olympics open.
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5 October 2004 - Law enforcement experts are urging stronger action against poachers or smugglers of endangered species, but warn that many countries lack the ability to fight wildlife crimes, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) said today.
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The international community must pay to clean up Ivory Coast sites polluted by toxic waste, the UN says.
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Athens, Aug 20. (PTI):In a belated damage-control exercise, the Indian Olympic Association today announced setting up of a Committee to probe into the Olympic Games doping scandal and suggest stringent measures to curb the menace.
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As many as 12 United Nations agencies have expressed serious concern about a looming humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip. The organisations - including the United Nations Development
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The U.S. Olympic Committee has tried to figure out how to avoid the danger of tainted food at the Summer Games.