GenevaLunch » run-off http://genevalunch.com Community Newspaper Online Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:51:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Copyright © GenevaLunch 2010 editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) http://genevalunch.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg GenevaLunch http://genevalunch.com 144 144 Community Newspaper Online GenevaLunch GenevaLunch editor@genevalunch.com no no Greenland’s ice melting faster than previously thought http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/11/13/greenlands-ice-melting-faster-than-previously-thought/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/11/13/greenlands-ice-melting-faster-than-previously-thought/#comments Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:38:18 +0000 Sean Ecker http://genevalunch.com/?p=31535 GenevaLunch.com Greenland’s ice mass is melting at a quicker pace than previously believed and consequently adding more water to the oceans, reports Science magazine 13 November. The increased run-off will cause the sea-level to rise by more than was estimated by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) 2007 projection for 2100. Altogether some 1,500 gigatonnes [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/11/13/greenlands-ice-melting-faster-than-previously-thought/feed/ 0 Karzai declared president after Afghanistan election thrown into doubt with Abdullah’s withdrawal http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/11/02/afghanistan-election-thrown-into-doubt-with-abdullahs-withdrawal/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/11/02/afghanistan-election-thrown-into-doubt-with-abdullahs-withdrawal/#comments Mon, 02 Nov 2009 06:38:25 +0000 Sean Ecker http://genevalunch.com/?p=30783 GenevaLunch.com Update 17:05 Afghan election officials have announced that Hamid Karzai is the elected president of Afghanistan and cancelled the second round of the election, scheduled for 7 November. They expressed fears for security and the cost of going ahead with an election without a challenger, who withdrew. Afghan election officials were to announce this week [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/11/02/afghanistan-election-thrown-into-doubt-with-abdullahs-withdrawal/feed/ 0 Afghan election results on hold while pressure mounts on Karzai http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/10/19/afghan-election-results-on-hold-while-pressure-mounts-on-karzai/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/10/19/afghan-election-results-on-hold-while-pressure-mounts-on-karzai/#comments Mon, 19 Oct 2009 06:17:29 +0000 Sean Ecker http://genevalunch.com/?p=29999 GenevaLunch.com Update 17:00 Reports from Kabul say that the Electoral Complaints Commission has finalized its tally and, discarding fraudulent ballots, the new total vote for Afghan President Hamid Karzai gives him 48 percent, less than the 50 percent necessary to avoid a run-off. The new results have been communicated to the Independent Election Commission, which has [...]

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