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...British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said that, despite the cost of going green, governments and citizens would save in the long run from the switch to cleaner energy. And European Commission President José Manuel Barroso warned that Europe was in danger of missing the big picture. "This is not a luxury we now have to forego," he said. "Climate change does not disappear because of the financial crisis...
...sectors are still booming, in part because most of the foreign-owned property on these two islands isn't bank-financed. In Bali, despite a pair of terrorist bombings in 2002 and '05, land prices have increased by at least 20% annually over the past three years, with some prime beachfront land going for double what it did a year ago. In Phuket, which suffered a devastating tsunami in 2004 followed by political jitters because of a 2006 coup, prices for sea-view property on the island's west coast jumped upward of 30%, year on year, in July...
...Minister of Health Gudlaugar Thór Thórdarson agrees that Iceland has sustained a blow to its psyche, "especially when Gordon Brown uses antiterrorism laws against Iceland," he says, referring to the British Prime Minister's move to invoke an antiterrorism law to freeze Icelandic companies' assets in the U.K. "The people here not only suffer financially - it also makes us feel bad." Indeed, says psychologist Ólafsson," Icelanders have always seen themselves as an independent people, and now we simply can't be as self-sufficient...
...confident that we'll be friends forever.' SILVIO BERLUSCONI, Italy's Prime Minister, toasting President Bush at the White House...
...Canada A Win for Harper Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservative Party prevailed in Oct. 14 elections, earning a broader mandate amid economic turmoil but falling short of the outright majority Harper had sought by calling the vote. In the nation's third elections in four years, the Conservatives captured at least 143--up from 127--of 308 House of Commons seats, while its primary opposition, the Liberal Party, notched just...