All Blog Posts from Investigative Round-Up

http://www.publicintegrity.org/investigations/global_climate_change_lobby/overview/> The Center For Public Integrity:
Global attempts to craft a pivotal new climate treaty in Copenhagen this December are being stymied by a far-reaching, multinational backlash led by fossil fuel industries and other heavy carbon emitters, according to an eight-country report by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (read the article)

NPR:
Bus operators which federal authorities have ordered to stop operating because of serious safety violations appear to be frequently "reincarnating" by changing their names and continuing to operate, endangering other travelers on the nation's highways.
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New York Times:
A Filipino woman who won the conviction of a Marine for raping her in 2005 in a contentious yearlong case that strained Philippine-American relations now says she has “doubts,” and might have been “too friendly” and made him think she was willing to have sex.
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AP:
Pakistan's top leaders were to dine at the Marriott devastated by a truck bombing over the weekend, but changed the venue at the last minute, a senior official said Monday. A hotel official, however, denied there were any plans for a government dinner.
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The Guardian:
Amid intensifying scrutiny of its failure to act on climate change, the US environmental protection agency (EPA) has ordered employees not to talk to internal auditors, Congress or the media, according to a leaked email released yesterday by green campaigners.
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Reuters:
None of the G8 countries have come even close to fulfilling their pledges to fight climate change with the United States, Canada and Russia lagging especially far behind, a new study published on Thursday found.
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Asharq al Awsat:
Militant Islamist groups extensive use of aliases is due to several reasons, Montasser al Zayat, who is known as “the Islamists’ lawyer “ in Egypt, told Asharq al Awsat newspaper. Al Zayat explains that when working in public, Islamists use aliases usually taken from Islamic history as a remembrance and honoring of earlier times. They also use it to mislead security agencies when working secretly, so that if a cell member is arrested the identities of the other members are not revealed, he added. Al Zayat also noted that militants’ aliases change as they change location. He says al Qaeda’s number two Ayman al Zawahri aliases including Dr. Abdul Moezz, Mr. Nour and Abu Mohammed.