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...cities around the world fed up with the gunk on their sidewalks. In London, representatives from Belfast, Cardiff and other British cities gathered last month for a summit on gum pollution. London's Oxford Street alone is smeared with some 300,000 bits of used gum; chew-goo cleanup costs Britain an estimated $290 million a year. A new bill in Parliament would fine gum droppers...
...Orthodox Church, rejected calls by several senior clergymen to step down amid a corruption scandal that has seen a number of clerics facing allegations of bribing judges, drug dealing and theft. Christodoulos did announce the suspension of two close aides, but said he was "called upon to lead a cleanup of the church." Apportioning Blame RUSSIA The Prosecutor General's office formally charged Muslim Ibragimov, a Chechen native, with "a murder conspired and conducted by a group of people" in connection with the death of Forbes Russia journalist Paul Klebnikov who was gunned down last summer outside his Moscow office...
...didn't rely on the heavy hand of government but would instead build partnerships around shared goals for a better environment. The Bush Administration deserves credit for some important environmental measures, including, among others, mandating major reductions in emissions from nonroad diesel engines and enacting legislation to accelerate the cleanup of thousands of polluted sites around the nation. Yet in recent years, the Republican Party's reputation as a steward of the environment has dramatically deteriorated, and the party is now widely perceived by the American public as downright anti-environment. Our efforts have been overshadowed by those...
Pereira said that construction workers were able to get into most of the site on Saturday morning to begin cleanup...
...KERRY: He wants to expand funding for the U.S. program that eliminates stockpiles of nuclear material in the former Soviet Union so that the cleanup can be completed within four years. At the current rate of funding, experts estimate, it would take until 2018. Kerry says he would open direct talks with North Korea to supplement the ongoing multilateral ones. He wants the U.S. to take a more active role in stopping the advance of Iran's nuclear program and push for further international sanctions against Iran if necessary...