Western Black Rhino Declared Officially Extinct
The Western Black Rhino is now extinct due to lax anti poaching. About 10 survived in Cameroon until 2000. Experts note reintroduction is costly and may be impossible, while poaching continues to threaten other rhino subspecies and species worldwide.
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Craig Hilton-Taylor
International Union For Conservation of Nature
Inge
Cleveland Metroparks Zoo
Cleveland
Africa
Obama urges debt panel to reach for deal on deficit cuts
President Obama pressed Sen. Patty Murray and Rep. Jeb Hensarling by phone from Air Force One to push a bipartisan agreement on at least 1.2 trillion dollars in new deficit reductions by November 23. He rejected proposals to disable the automatic enforcement mechanism and demanded both revenue and spending cuts in the panel’s plan.
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Barack Obama
Congress
Jay Carney
Obama
Patty Murray
D-Wash
Jeb Hensarling
R-Texas
San Diego
Carney
Hawaii
Australia
Indonesia
Capitol Hill
Mexican anti-cartel official dies in helicopter crash
Mexico City reports Francisco Blake Mora, 45, the Cabinet secretary and top interior minister, died in a helicopter crash that may have been an accident. The crash killed Blake Mora and seven others as bad weather is suspected, amid Calderon’s drugs war.
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Francisco Blake Mora
Mexico
Felipe Calderon
Blake Mora
Calderon
Newborn Ghost Worker Added to Nigeria Payroll
In Lagos a one month old baby was recorded as earning about 150 dollars monthly for two to three years, part of widespread ghost workers in Nigeria. Zamfara state Attorney General Garba Gajam says the child’s father began collecting the salary before birth. records oddly list a diploma.
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Lagos
Nigeria
Garba Gajam
Zamfara
Gajam
Civilian Death Toll Rises in Syria Amid Homs Siege
A rights group says over 250 Syrians were killed in the last 11 days as the Assad regime besieges Homs. The UN puts fatalities around 3,500 to 4,000 since mid March, with November steeply rising. Reports cite torture of detainees and defections among security forces.
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Syria
Homs
U.N
High price of Guantanamo detainee system shines in costs
McClatchy reports the Guantanamo Bay detention center costs $800000 per detainee annually, totaling 171 inmates and outpacing U.S. soil custody. The facility remains funded as a battlefield necessity despite calls for cost analysis and ongoing upgrades including $2 million in computer equipment.
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Cuba
Pentagon Detention Center
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Afghanistan
Congress
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Goldman
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Coke
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