Mubarak family fortune $70bn

Mubarak family fortune could reach $70bn, say experts | World news | The Guardian

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Egyptian president has cash in British and Swiss banks plus UK and US property

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Amazon drought> billions of tree deaths

Mass tree deaths prompt fears of Amazon ‘climate tipping point’ | Environment | guardian.co.uk

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Scientists fear billions of tree deaths caused by 2010 drought could see vast forest turn from carbon sink to carbon source

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Capitalists kill children

Darfur children collage

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Q&A: Hunger, Food Shortages Fuel Uprisings – IPS ipsnews.net

The rise in food prices and growing hunger, one of the causes of the popular uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt and other countries in the Arab world, is due to financial speculation and not a lack of arable land, says Janaina Stronzake, a leader of Brazil’s Landless Workers Movement (MST).

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