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Iraq Roundup
BAGHDAD, June 21 -- Fourteen U.S. soldiers have died in scattered attacks in Iraq over the last two days, including five killed Thursday by a roadside bomb in a northeastern Baghdad neighborhood, the military said in a series of statements.
With a major U.S. effort to oust insurgents underway in Diyala province north of the Iraqi capital, a series of five attacks elsewhere claimed the lives of American soldiers on patrol in Baghdad, in the restive Al Anbar province, and southwest of the capital.
France begins airlift for Chadian, Sudanese refugees
French military planes on Sunday began airlifting tonnes of relief supplies and food aid to refugee camps in eastern Chad in one of the first overseas humanitarian initiatives ordered by President Nicolas Sarkozy.
The operation followed a visit this month to the camps near the border with Sudan's conflict-torn Darfur region by Sarkozy's foreign minister, Bernard Kouchner, co-founder of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders).
{..I can't think of a better background for a foreign minister to have than MSF...}
Fast Forward: Global Warming, 2035
In 30 years, how will we be approaching the global warming debate?
If I had to guess, I'd say we wouldn't be having a debate, but rather just watching the effects. It looks pretty bleak. I've seen too many reports and predictions about rising sea levels and too many people dragging their feet about making changes to believe otherwise.