Word: suspending
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...Amazon Dozens were killed in Peru's Bagua province as police clashed with indigenous groups incensed by energy developments on their ancestral land. After months of protests, the riots erupted when policemen attempted to clear thousands of demonstrators from a highway. Peru's Congress has moved to suspend further developments...
...that “individuals with mild illness should be advised to stay at home.” The University’s announcement comes weeks after several now-confirmed cases of H1N1 occurred at Harvard School of Dental Medicine, which prompted University and Boston health authorities to temporarily suspend classes at Harvard’s Longwood medical campus and close the dental school’s treatment clinic. High absenteeism and a rash of cases around Boston in recent weeks has also forced the closing of several public and private schools. “Traditionally we don?...
...Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism and the Nieman Seminar for Narrative Editors will be suspended for the 2009-2010 academic year, the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard announced last week. The suspension of these programs constitutes a major reduction in spending for the Foundation, which attributed its decision to a university-wide need to make budget cuts in response to the recent economic downturn. “Like most parts of Harvard, we’re facing the necessity of making cuts, and the narrative conference has become a very expensive undertaking,” said Nieman Foundation Curator...
...Israelis want to limit the diplomatic time frame out of fear that Iran will use open-ended talks as a cover for expanding its nuclear infrastructure. After all, even the Bush Administration had, in its final years, backed away from demanding that Iran suspend uranium enrichment as a precondition for talks, and Obama is unlikely to resuscitate a position to which the Iranians have shown no intention to concede. Instead, he seeks to create the most favorable conditions for diplomacy to work, because the alternatives are so unpalatable. Military strikes against Iran's nuclear facilities are deemed...
Until now, the European diplomacy backed by the Bush Administration has aimed at getting Iran first to suspend uranium enrichment and then to agree to forgo the right to enrichment on its own soil, instead importing the fuel for its nuclear-energy program, in exchange for a package of political, economic and diplomatic incentives. Even if the U.S. agrees to talk while Iran's centrifuges are spinning, what's less clear is whether Washington and its allies will eventually settle for less than Iran forgoing enrichment altogether, and accept some level of low-grade enrichment being conducted under an expanded...