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by Neve Gordon: Israel seems more concerned with electoral politics and restoring its military reputation than stopping the Qassam rockets.

by Ian Black

Fake paper looks forward to the day the Iraq war ends and other stories American liberals would love

Those drooling over the free market's collapse are wrong: this passing crisis is down to lax regulation and craven ministers

Nations in the region are using more water than arrives on a renewable basis. Cooperating to secure it is the only way forward

Report warns against oil industry's equivalent of the sub-prime mortgage crisis

Don't be fooled by the cries of despair: the current financial meltdown is making some very rich people even richer

The crisis gripping the US financial markets shows no signs of ending after an unprecedented weekend of drama

The four key witnesses chosen by Greenpeace to speak in its defence at the Kingsnorth trial were crucial to the environmental group's acquittal.

As the world hots up, so does the market for books about climate change. Tim Flannery, author of The Weather Makers, looks at the latest works on the crisis, and sizes up their solutions, from nuclear energy to genetically engineered trees

There's no 'adaptation' to such steep warming. We must stop pandering to special interests, and try a new, post-Kyoto strategy

Amid intensifying scrutiny of its failure to act on climate change, the US environmental protection agency (EPA) has ordered employees not to talk to internal auditors, Congress or the media, according to a leaked email released yesterday by green campaigners.

· Huge £35bn supergrid would pool green sources · Brown and Sarkozy back north African plan

Ofcom's censure of Channel 4 is flawed: The Great Global Warming Swindle clearly misled viewers about climate change

· Details emerge of captured warlord's life as a New Age therapist while on run · Now hunt turns to Ratko Mladic as Belgrade seeks EU membership

Internal World Bank study delivers blow to plant energy drive

Voters think that taking action against climate change matters more than tackling the global economic downturn, according to a Guardian/ICM poll published today.

Exclusive Official review admits biofuel role in food crisis

· Total up 3m to 37.4m as downward trend reverses · Figures exclude those fleeing natural disasters

At best we will limit the extent of global warming, but Kyoto barely helps. Does humanity have the foresight to save itself?

Cluster bombs dropped on the former Yugoslavia by British forces in 1999 continue to kill and maim civilians. The imminent ban is long overdue

The oil giant ExxonMobil has admitted that its support for lobby groups that question the science of climate change may have hindered action to tackle global warming.

· Summit in Rome follows record spikes in cost of rice, wheat and dairy products · Calls for urgent action to tackle serious threat to international stability

An indigenous Panamanian tribe has driven its king into exile over his approval of a £25m hydro-electric project in its jungle realm. The Naso tribe, whose millennia-old royal inheritance system is recognised by the state, banished King Tito Santana for opening the kingdom to developers.

An Israeli minister today warned of increasingly bitter conflict in the Gaza Strip, saying the Palestinians could bring on themselves what he called a "holocaust".

The EU today imposed a record €899m (£680m) fine on Microsoft for charging "unreasonable" prices to rivals for access to its dominant software.

The destruction of Sumatra's natural forests is accelerating global climate change and pushing endangered species closer to extinction, a new report warned today.

It is unique in its wider European framework, but all would-be states will still take this Balkan solution for a precedent