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.

Senegal’s scientists hope black-eyed peas used in recipes will help reduce cost of bread

Black-eyed peas ‘crop of the future’ for Senegal

Global summit opens with calls to achieve goals to help world’s poorest by 2015 target

Global summit to fight poverty opens

UNITED NATIONS — A global summit has opened with calls to achieve U.N. goals to help the world’s poorest by the 2015 target.

Summit to spotlight how to achieve goals to help world’s poorest by 2015 target

Global spotlight on helping world’s poor

UNITED NATIONS — Ten years after world leaders set the most ambitious goals ever to tackle global poverty, they are meeting again to try to spur action to meet the targets by the 2015 deadline — which the U.N. says will be difficult, if not impossible, in some cases.

Ivory Coast minister accused of stealing compensation meant for victims of toxic waste spill

Ivory Coast minister investigated for corruption

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’

Equatorial Guinea president defends UNESCO prize in his name that critics call disgrace

Equatorial Guinea defends UN prize critics blast

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

China and Japan help defeat proposal boosting shark conservation efforts at UN meeting

Shark conservation proposal defeated at UN meeting

Small solution to a big problem: guinea pig meat tested as solution to Congo hunger crisis

Guinea pig touted as solution to Congo food crisis

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AP Top News at 1:07 p.m. EST

US, Afghan troops sweep into Taliban stronghold

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

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

US, Afghan troops sweep into Taliban stronghold

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