NEW YORK ( MarketWatch ) -- Emerging market stocks have been the stars of the global market rally, and the BRICs ( Brazil , Russia , India , and China ) have set the pace. Since their lows in late October 2008 -- they bottomed a few months...

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... Netherlands and France scuppered the plan. But the ambition of providing Europe 's half-billion people with a new voice lived on through the Treaty of Lisbon , which limped through near-death in Ireland and eastern resentment to be signed and...

In this article: European Union, Tony Blair, Europe, Henry Kissinger, Beijing, Brussels, Washington, Democracy, Treaty of Lisbon, and Herman Van Rompuy

...responsibility for the bluefin to a different body, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora ( CITES ). This organisation has the power to ban trade in an endangered species such as the bluefin...

In this article: Endangered species, Extinction, Cites, International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas, and Atlantic Ocean

In 1831, the 20th president of the United States, James Garfield , was born in Orange Township , Ohio. In 1919, the Senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles by a vote of 55 in favor, 39 against, short of the two-thirds majority needed for...

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...his focus to America 's entry into World War I. But his idealistic vision for world peace fell apart when Congress refused to ratify the Treaty of Versailles or allow the U.S. to join the League of Nations. Cooper , acclaimed as the nation's...

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...of Maryland, says many of the greatest Senate debates were over foreign policy. In 1919, that foreign policy issue was the Treaty of Versailles , which ended World War I and created the League of Nations. But the League was met with...

In this article: Andrew Johnson, United States, Henry Cabot Lodge, Henry Clay, Treaty of Versailles, Library of Congress, League of Nations, and Daniel Webster

...to wind and weather. Laws that are breached by the use of DU shells include the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Charter of the United Nations , the Genocide convention, the convention against torture, the four Geneva...

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...a common error by stating in your Nov. 8 lead editorial, "Small steps on climate change ," that the Senate "refused to ratify" the Kyoto Protocol , which set targets for greenhouse gas emissions. Nobody asked it to. Before the protocol was...

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...on fishing, they may relinquish control to the 178 nations that make up the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species ( CITES ) which will be more likely to place a ban on trading the Mediterranean bluefin when it meets in March...

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...into force" of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty and the "immediate commencement of negotiations on and early conclusion of" the Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty. To boost peaceful use of atomic power, they vowed to also join with...

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.../ Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy The Government of the United States and the Government of Japan reaffirm the importance of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) and plan to cooperate so that the 2010 NPT Review...

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...and lead to the end of both the Ottoman and Austria-Hungarian Empires. Ironically, the official treaty that ended the first World War (the Treaty of Versailles , signed in June of 1919) put such heavy sanctions on Germany that it indirectly...

In this article: Soldiers, Treaty of Versailles, First World War, Second World War, Drowning Pool, Germany, Europe, France, and United States

...HCFC's. The role of R-22 in ozone depletion has become a prominent environmental concern, and R-22 is being phased out in accordance with the Montreal Protocol. Brooks ' patented innovation in refrigerant technology eliminates R-22 and other...

In this article: San Jose, California, Ozone depletion, Semiconductor, Montreal Protocol, and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

...evaluate and address existing desertification problems and future issues. Despite criticism from the scientific community that the UNCCD lacks proper standards for effective action, the delegates did not pass the DDP at the conference.

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...government ministers attending the Ninth Session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 9) of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification ( UNCCD ) in Buenos Aires, Argentina , from 21 September to 2 October. Desertification , land degradation and...

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...change will jeopardise the world's common future, the head of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification ( UNCCD ) has said. The ninth UNCCD conference opens Monday in Buenos Aires with a view to keeping the key issue of desertification...

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