Bypassing the blockage of nations
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Solving the world's environmental ills may mean re-thinking the role of nations and national governments.
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Just blocks from where U.N. diplomats debate their interpretations of tyranny and democracy, what may be the first document to articulate the difference is going up for sale.
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Canadian university researchers have  developed software that will let users hop over governments'  Internet firewalls, raising the prospect of unfettered Internet  access in countries that have long tried to control how  residents use the Web.
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Central American nations are putting aside border bickering to allow the relatively free movement of people and goods between nations &#151; a goal that has U.S. officials worried about a jump in smuggling of drugs and people in a region already plagued by crime and on the lookout for terrorists.
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It&#039;s that time of year again when Europeans pack up the kids and pets and embark on an annual vacation exodus &amp;#151; jamming highways that are no celebration of European unity. The highway headaches are rooted largely in European governments&#039; inability to craft a sensibly numbered, well-maintained and uniformly sign-posted highway grid.
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An unlikely meeting of minds on an issue of global concern.
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Investor's Business Daily - Austria's chancellor and Slovakia's prime minister sawed through a red and white border barrier in a symbolic extension of the EU's passport-free zone to former Eastern Bloc nations: the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia. Support for the move is mixed, with the head of the EU's border watchdog agency warning that it will fuel illegal immigration.
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Resistance to barrier between U.S., Mexico raises concerns about feasibility, potential effectiveness.
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Â· Bush 'apeing Soviet Union with missile shield' planÂ· Tactic may scare off EU states from hosting bases
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SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador -- Central American nations are putting aside border bickering to allow the relatively free movement of people and goods between nations -- a goal that has US officials worried about a jump in smuggling of drugs and people in a region already plagued by crime and on the lookout for terrorists.
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Fishing nations led by Iceland and Russia have blocked U.N. negotiators from imposing a full-fledged ban against destructive bottom trawling on the high seas. After weeks of talks in New York, a United Nations committee that oversees high seas fisheries failed to gain unanimous support this week for ending unregulated bottom trawling.
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Iranâs increasing economic and political isolation is helping leaders to hold back what they see as corrupting foreign influences.
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Security concerns are preventing fuel and other goods from leaving a key port.
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Extending the hand of friendship to a man viewed as a paranoid recluse with extreme views may seem a puzzling move. It becomes even more inexplicable when to do so could earn you the disapproval of the US, a powerful enemy.
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What it will take to win hearts and minds outside the U.S.
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Change a light bulb and stop a war. Build smarter homes and keep the seas from rising.
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Â· Conditional support excludes right to vetoÂ· PM also calls for reform of World Bank and IMF