Rights activists from Brazil, Nepal, Nigeria and Israel share 2010 ‘Alternative Nobel’

Rights activists share Alternative Nobel

STOCKHOLM — Activists from Nepal, Nigeria, Brazil and Israel were named the winners Thursday of this year’s Right Livelihood Award, also known as the “alternative Nobel,” for work that includes fighting to save the Amazon rain forest and bringing health care to Palestinians cut off from services.

Tainted ponds kill cattle and children play in contaminated fields in Nigerian lead crisis

Environmental damage looms in Nigerian lead crisis

Gold, and lead, bring illness and death to poor villages in northern Nigeria

Gold, and lead, bring illness and death in Nigeria

CDC: Nigerian lead poisoning outbreak ‘unprecedented’ as doctors struggle to help ill children

CDC: Nigeria lead poisoning crisis ‘unprecedented’

Royal Dutch Shell promises $2B project to cut gas flaring in Nigeria

Shell pledges $2B to cut gas flaring in Nigeria

Editorial Roundup: Excerpts From Recent Editorials in Newspapers in the US and Abroad

Michelle Obama and President Barack Obama

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US, Afghan troops sweep into Taliban stronghold

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AP Top News at 12:59 p.m. EST

US, Afghan troops sweep into Taliban stronghold

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