Word: chathams
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...That hasn't stopped environmental groups from trying, however. On Saturday at 8:30 pm local time - beginning on Chatham Island in New Zealand, one of the first places on Earth that the dawn strikes - towns and cities in over 80 countries across the world will shut off their lights for 60 minutes, to draw attention to climate change. The National Stadium in Beijing, the Great Pyramids in Egypt, the Empire State Building in New York and even the Strip in Las Vegas - all will go dark for an hour to raise awareness of climate change and show that there...
...Ahmadinejad will lose - perhaps to his more moderate predecessor, Mohammed Khatami, who has a history of reaching out to the West. Even if Ahmadinejad is re-elected, Khatami's mere entry into the fray may force him to open up, says Ali Ansari, an Iran expert at London's Chatham House, a foreign policy think tank. "The one thing Khatami can deliver is better relations with the U.S. Ahmadinejad will want to cancel that out by saying, 'I can do that too.' " (See images of the anniversary of Iran's revolution...
...Britain, is said to be warming to the euro. Barroso recently claimed that London is "closer than ever before" to euro-zone entry and that "the people who matter in Britain" think it should join. That may be overstating things a bit, but a report by research group Chatham House warns that as the euro zone grows, the U.K. risks being excluded from "deeper intra-E.U. economic consultation and coordination, including in areas of significant national interest, such as financial market regulation." (See pictures of the financial crisis in London...
...which oil is traded, say some experts, who recommend the introduction of mechanisms designed to prevent speculators from plunging into markets and withdrawing billions of dollars just as suddenly. "The prices are being largely made in the paper markets," says Paul Stevens, energy analyst at the London think tank Chatham House. "People are moving in and out of the market on a daily basis." The market is especially open to speculation since oil is traded in futures on the New York Mercantile Exchange, where traders are betting on what oil will be worth in a month or two, rather than...
...most Zimbabweans don't expect to be rid of Mugabe anytime soon. "You can have governments under threat from a few days of protest in Thailand or Greece, or food riots destabilizing regimes around the world," says Alex Vines, head of the Africa Program at the London think tank Chatham House, "but Zimbabwe is different. Zimbabwe always surprises you with how little changes...