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Lebanon registers 1 million Syrian refugees

2014-04-03 23:34:17| Oil & Gas - Topix.net

The federal government has reached a $5.15 billion settlement with Anadarko Petroleum Corp. for the cleanup of thousands of long-contaminated sites nationwide, the largest ever for environmental contamination.

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3 easy Linux alternatives for Windows XP refugees who don't want a new PC

2014-03-14 15:19:13| InfoWorld: Top News

Windows XP's refugees have two choices on April 8, when Microsoft stops supporting the decade-old operating system (for consumers, anyway). This is assuming a new PC with a new operating system (even Windows 7) is, for whatever reason, out of the question.

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VIDEO: Syrian refugees' impact on Jordan

2014-02-01 20:27:25| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

Leana Hosea reports on the impact of Syrian refugees on neighbouring Jordan.

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Is Canada prepared for climate refugees?

2013-12-24 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Straight: The winds, at more than 150 kilometres per hour, flattened almost all the homes, leaving bodies washed as far as 90 kilometres from the coast. Rice fields were destroyed, thousands died, many more were displaced, and, ever since, the soil has been saturated with salt. The tsunami that devastated the region in 1988 was the trigger, Donatien Garnier wrote in 2010s Climate Refugees about the disaster that struck southwestern Bangladesh 25 years ago. Salt contamination has been increasing since...

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