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Snows of Kili no more

Bleak news today for those hoping to one day see the iconic snow atop Kilimanjaro.  You don't have much time left.

According to the author of a new report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, that snow could be gone by 2022.  In 2002, the same team predicted that ice levels would be where they are now.  Since 1912, roughly 85 percent of the ice cover has disappeared.

Phones unfortunately more widespread than food

The WFP has announced a new twist in its successful program using mobile phones to alert Iraqi refugees in Syria about available food aid.  Reuters reports:

Iraqi refugees in Syria will this week start receive U.N. text messages they can redeem for fresh food in local shops, the World Food Programme said on Tuesday. 

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The UN aspect of Obama’s Prize

The Secretary General made the following statement on Obama's Nobel Peace Prize:

The Secretary-General wholeheartedly congratulates U.S. President Barack Obama on winning the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009.

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