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EU Joins Initiative to Double Climate Research Funding
June 15, 2016
The European Commission has announced that the EU has joined the Mission Innovation initiative unveiled at the UN climate change conference in 2015 under which it will double its funding of research on renewable energy over the next five years in an effort to combat global warming.
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EU, US Sign Criminal Data Protection Framework
June 15, 2016
EU and US officials have signed an "Umbrella Agreement" that creates a "comprehensive high-level data protection framework" regarding data transfers on criminal suspects between US and EU law enforcement agencies that seeks to protect the data privacy rights of Europeans.
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HRW Seeks ICC Probe of Israel, Palestine
June 15, 2016
Human Rights Watch has published an article calling on the International Criminal Court's Prosecutor to turn the preliminary investigation of potential "war crimes" committed by Israel and Palestine into a formal probe, including of the construction of Israeli civilian settlements in "occupied" Palestinian territories.
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UN Warns of Climate Threat to Statue of Liberty
June 14, 2016
Attempting to convince citizens of the catastrophic future effects of global warming, a report from the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization warns of the potential damage to or destruction of the Statue of Liberty and other famous sites around the world through the impacts of climate change.
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Ban Pushes G-7 Leaders on UN Priorities
June 14, 2016
In remarks on the sidelines of a recent meeting of the G-7 group of countries in Nagoya, Japan, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on G-7 leaders to advance priorities in the UN agenda, including countering climate change, collective action on migrant flows, and implementing the UN's comprehensive Sustainable Development Goals for the year 2030.
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