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		<title>On this day March 20, 1883</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 05:01:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eleven countries signed the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property, one of the first intellectual property treaties. The Convention was one of the first intellectual property treaties. As a result of this treaty, intellectual property systems, including patents, of any contracting state are accessible to the nationals of other states party to the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=formaementis.wordpress.com&#038;blog=953471&#038;post=7819&#038;subd=formaementis&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On this day July 1, 2002</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 03:09:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Rome Statute entered into force, establishing the International Criminal Court to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and crimes of aggression. The statute is the treaty that established the International Criminal Court (ICC). It was adopted at a diplomatic conference in Rome on 17 July 1998 and it entered into force [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=formaementis.wordpress.com&#038;blog=953471&#038;post=9087&#038;subd=formaementis&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oil spill in Gulf of Mexico leaking 42000 gallons daily</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 13:01:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After an explosion aboard an oil rig four days ago, an oil spill caused by the sinking of the rig has expanded to cover an area of around 600 square miles (1550 square kilometers), and efforts to shut off the leak have thus far been unsuccessful. Officials have begun to use robotic submersible vehicles to [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=formaementis.wordpress.com&#038;blog=953471&#038;post=12824&#038;subd=formaementis&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oil rig in Gulf of Mexico sinks after explosion</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 16:23:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The oil rig Deepwater Horizon sunk yesterday after an explosion Tuesday night that left eleven people missing. According to an officer from the US Coast Guard, the rig sank sometime in the morning. The rig had caught fire after an explosion of unknown origin occurred two days ago. 115 of the 126 workers on board [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=formaementis.wordpress.com&#038;blog=953471&#038;post=12758&#038;subd=formaementis&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On this day March 26, 1975</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 03:06:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Biological Weapons Convention enters into force. The Convention was the first multilateral disarmament treaty banning the production of an entire category of weapons. It was the result of prolonged efforts by the international community to establish a new instrument that would supplement the 1925 Geneva Protocol. The BWC was opened for signature on April [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=formaementis.wordpress.com&#038;blog=953471&#038;post=7953&#038;subd=formaementis&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On this day March 4, 1918</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 03:09:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first case of Spanish flu occurs, the start of a devastating worldwide pandemic. It was caused by an unusually severe and deadly Influenza A virus strain of subtype H1N1. Historical and epidemiologic data are inadequate to identify the geographic origin of the virus. Most of its victims were healthy young adults, in contrast to [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=formaementis.wordpress.com&#038;blog=953471&#038;post=7575&#038;subd=formaementis&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On this day February 15, 2003</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 03:01:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In one of the largest anti-war rallies in history, millions around the world in approximately 800 cities took part in protests against the impending invasion of Iraq. Millions of people protested in approximately 800 cities around the world. According to BBC News, between six and ten million people took part in protests in up to [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=formaementis.wordpress.com&#038;blog=953471&#038;post=7307&#038;subd=formaementis&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On this day December 10, 1948</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 04:04:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights at Palais de Chaillot, Paris. The Guinness Book of Records describes the UDHR as the &#8220;Most Translated Document&#8221; in the world. The Declaration arose directly from the experience of the Second World War and represents the first global expression of rights to which [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=formaementis.wordpress.com&#038;blog=953471&#038;post=5833&#038;subd=formaementis&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>1.8 million died of tuberculosis in 2008</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:24:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said that over the last fifteen years, some 36 million people have been cured of tuberculosis, and about 8-million tuberculosis cases have been avoided. The information is contained in the WHO’s 2009 Global Tuberculosis Control Report Update. The Direct Observed Treatment Short Course (DOTS) strategy was given credit for [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=formaementis.wordpress.com&#038;blog=953471&#038;post=11829&#038;subd=formaementis&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>1 Billion hungry people in World</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:24:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The United Nations&#8217; World Food Program (WFP) said today that for the first time in history, the number of hungry people worldwide will exceed one billion. The huge number of people facing food insecurity has prompted the UN organization to appeal to individuals for the first time. The WFP launched the Billion for a Billion [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=formaementis.wordpress.com&#038;blog=953471&#038;post=11608&#038;subd=formaementis&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>UN hold first World Humanitarian Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 09:56:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The inaugural World Humanitarian Day is in part dedicated to the memory of all those aid workers who have lost their lives while bringing assistance to others, the majority of them from the communities they are trying to help. The UN hopes the event will focus attention on aid workers and increase support for their [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=formaementis.wordpress.com&#038;blog=953471&#038;post=9843&#038;subd=formaementis&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Swine Flu Pandemic Updates</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:32:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WHO Disease Outbreak News WHO Situation updates Wikipedia Swine Flu Pandemic tables Wikipedia Swine Flu Pandemic by country Swine flu Update May 3, 2009 Swine flu cases worldwide top 1,000 May 4, 2009 Swine flu worldwide update June 6, 2009 WHO declares global swine flu pandemic June 11, 2009 Swine flu deaths reported in Argentina [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=formaementis.wordpress.com&#038;blog=953471&#038;post=9747&#038;subd=formaementis&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Number of hungry worldwide tops 1bn</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 04:05:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The number of hungry people in the world is projected to reach an all-time high of 1.02 billion this year, according to a report published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). The report blames this latest spike in world hunger chiefly on the global economic recession, which has increased unemployment [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=formaementis.wordpress.com&#038;blog=953471&#038;post=8988&#038;subd=formaementis&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>WHO declares global swine flu pandemic</title>
		<link>http://formaementis.wordpress.com/2009/06/11/who-declares-global-swine-flu-pandemic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 08:06:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After holding an emergency meeting, the World Health Organisation (WHO) officially declared a worldwide swine flu pandemic on Thursday. The agency increased its pandemic alert level to the sixth level, its highest. &#8220;On the basis of available evidence, and these expert assessments of the evidence, the scientific criteria for an influenza pandemic have been met. [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=formaementis.wordpress.com&#038;blog=953471&#038;post=8675&#038;subd=formaementis&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Swine flu worldwide update</title>
		<link>http://formaementis.wordpress.com/2009/06/06/swine-flu-worldwide-update/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2009 13:42:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The H1N1 swine flu virus has now spread to 66 different countries throughout the globe, with at least 19,273 confirmed cases and 117 deaths having been reported according to the latest World Health Organisation (WHO) tally. A majority of the cases were reported by the United States, which now has at least 10,053 confirmed infections [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=formaementis.wordpress.com&#038;blog=953471&#038;post=8643&#038;subd=formaementis&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lindane production and use banned worldwide</title>
		<link>http://formaementis.wordpress.com/2009/05/10/lindane-production-and-use-banned-worldwide/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2009 21:21:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Participating countries of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants add nine more chemicals, including lindane, to its globally banned list. Lindane is an organochlorine chemical that has been used both as an agricultural insecticide and as a pharmaceutical treatment for head lice and scabies. Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants is an international environmental [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=formaementis.wordpress.com&#038;blog=953471&#038;post=8505&#038;subd=formaementis&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Swine flu cases worldwide top 1,000</title>
		<link>http://formaementis.wordpress.com/2009/05/04/swine-flu-cases-worldwide-top-1000/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 20:21:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The United Nations&#8216; World Health Organization reported on Monday that the total number of confirmed cases of the H1N1 swine flu virus worldwide has surpassed one thousand. The chief of the WHO, Margaret Chan, told the UN General Assembly in New York that 1,003 confirmed infections have been reported throughout the world since the outbreak [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=formaementis.wordpress.com&#038;blog=953471&#038;post=8403&#038;subd=formaementis&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Swine flu Update</title>
		<link>http://formaementis.wordpress.com/2009/05/03/swine-flu-update/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2009 17:26:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Media reports suggest that the deadly H1N1 swine flu virus, which has killed sixteen people and infected hundreds worldwide, is continuing to spread. According to the United Nations&#8216; World Health Organisation, there are a total of 331 confirmed cases of swine flu throughout the world, with hundreds more suspected cases. The WHO raised its pandemic [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=formaementis.wordpress.com&#038;blog=953471&#038;post=8390&#038;subd=formaementis&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>May Day riots fuelled by economic crisis</title>
		<link>http://formaementis.wordpress.com/2009/05/02/may-day-riots-fuelled-by-economic-crisis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 18:36:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Organized labor advocates worldwide held Friday demonstrations commemorating International Workers&#8217; Day, May 1st. Increased unemployment and financial hardship consequent to the ongoing global financial crisis led to larger demonstrations than in 2008, but violent incidents in some world cities marred the day of celebration. In Germany, 57 were arrested as young protestors threw bottles and [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=formaementis.wordpress.com&#038;blog=953471&#038;post=8371&#038;subd=formaementis&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Swine flu outbreaks appear globally</title>
		<link>http://formaementis.wordpress.com/2009/04/30/swine-flu-outbreaks-appear-globally/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 12:48:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New cases of the deadly swine flu virus have been reported around the world in recent days, prompting fear of a global influenza pandemic. As a result, the World Health Organization (WHO) raised the pandemic alert level to 5. The United Nations has warned that the disease can not be contained. At least 91 confirmed [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=formaementis.wordpress.com&#038;blog=953471&#038;post=8303&#038;subd=formaementis&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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