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Earlier this week, North Korea announced to great fanfare that it would, in fact, do what it agreed to do back in February at the so called Six Party Talks in Beijing: allow inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency to monitor the shutdown of the controversial Yongbyon reactor. That has helped put the optimists in the Kim club in the ascendant. Indeed, Hill's trip to Pyongyang on Thursday, the first high-level mission by a U.S. official there in more than four years, seemed designed to take advantage of the positive opening. A statement from Hill read...
...delegation is about to wrap up a three-week mission to examine security procedures along the Lebanon-Syria border and will conclude that much needs to be done to tighten border security. That could spur U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon to recommend dispatching a U.N. observer mission to monitor the porous frontier. Such a decision will anger Damascus, which has repeatedly stated its opposition to an international presence along its border with Lebanon. It will further add pressure on the Palestinian bases, which are linked to Syria via numerous remote trails that criss-cross the mountainous border. The Lebanese...
...ready for a dry summer. According to the U.S. Drought Monitor, half the continental U.S. is currently experiencing abnormal dryness or drought. Over the past four years, migrating drought patterns have spread toward the Eastern shores, crippling crops, shrinking lakes and drying up wells this month in eight Southern states, particularly Alabama. Meanwhile, the Northeast and much of the Midwest have been spared...
...involved in sourcing organic produce from all over the globe: "Air freighting is an extremely relevant... concern, with regard to climate change, because organic farming is known to have a lower carbon footprint than non-organic farming," said Robin Maynard, spokesman for the U.K. Soil Association, Britain's biggest monitor of organic farming. "Wasteage also applies to all major retailers. There are horrifying figures on what the U.K. throws away...
Sources: New York Times (2); China Daily (2); Christian Science Monitor (2); New York Times...