NATO rejects ban on uranium shells
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization rebuffed Italy's proposal for a ban on depleted-uranium munitions, but the European Union ordered experts from its nuclear energy agency to assess whether they
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization rebuffed Italy's proposal for a ban on depleted-uranium munitions, but the European Union ordered experts from its nuclear energy agency to assess whether they
Defense Minister Rudolf Scharping has denied that German soldiers who served in the Balkans were at risk of contracting leukemia and said there were no plans for testing the 60,000 troops possibly
The U.S. tobacco industry should be dismantled and cigarettes should be sold in brown paper wrappers by a corporation created and tightly regulated by Congress, a former Food anad Drug Administration
Hunger now afflicts 830 million people throughout the world because of natural disasters, armed conflict and a griding poverty that consigns the poor to chronic malnutrition, the UN World Food
Panama's Healthy Ministry has declaed an emergency in two provinces hit by an outbreak of the Hanta virus and has canceled carnival celebrations there. The provinces concerned are Herrera and Los
A fast-developing controversy over the use by NATO of depleted uranium warheads in the Balkans presented Sweden with a political headache as it formally took over the helm of the European Union. The
The Supreme Court's conservative majority limited the scope of a landmark environmental law, ruling that the US Clean Water Act should not prevent suburban Chicago localities from building a landfill
In a clear challenge to the incoming Bush Administration, the chief of the U.S. Forest Service has issued a policy barring the cutting of old growth timber on public
One of the most striking patterns in modern U.S. agriculture is the increasing use of antibiotics as a regular supplement in the feed and water consumed by cows, pigs and especially poultry. Most of
President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela said over the weekend that he hopes to obtain up to $600 million in loans from the InterAmerican Development Bank to finance reconstruction in the wake of mud