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Bottles Reborn as Blankets for Disaster Victims
World  (tags: recycling, humans, eco-friendly, clothing, GoodNews, Refugees&Relief, world )

Daphna
- 2 days ago - alertnet.org
A plastic bottle thrown into a Taipei recycling bin could be reincarnated as a blanket to warm disaster victims in any of 20 countries, thanks to a unique project by the world's largest Buddhist charity. The Taiwan Buddhist Tzu Chi Foundation
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GOOD NEWS---MIDEAST: Israelis Show the Light to Palestinian Herders
World  (tags: goodnews, GoodNews, israel, politics, society, news, humans, world )

Cal
- 6 days ago - ipsnews.net
Hundreds of impoverished Palestinian herders and farmers living in caves and tents in a remote area of the Palestinian West Bank have been provided free electricity due to the ingenuity of two Israeli physicists.
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Honduran Rivals Agree a Deal to End Crisis
World  (tags: 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', 'HUMANRIGHTS!', GoodNews, politics, world, freedoms )

Cal
- 9 days ago - reuters.com
Honduras' de facto government has accepted a U.S.-driven deal that opens the door for the return to power of President Manuel Zelaya, toppled in a military coup four months ago.
13 comments
GOOD NEWS---Banks Start Returning Holocaust Victims' Assets
World  (tags: israel, news, middle-east, world, interesting, goodnews )

Cal
- 19 days ago - jpost.com
For the first time, local banks that have held the assets of Jewish Holocaust victims for more than six decades have begun to return the accounts to their heirs.
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Truth Commission on Amazon Massacre Established
World  (tags: world, violence, terrorism, government, conflict, 'HUMANRIGHTS!', 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', interesting, goodnews, politics )

Cal
- 19 days ago - indiancountrytoday.com
Government dialogue with indigenous leaders continues
2 comments
Turkey and Armenia Sign Historic Deal
World  (tags: world, turkey, armenia, goodnews, politics, diplomacy )

Cal
- 28 days ago - jpost.com
Turkey and Armenia signed an accord Saturday to establish diplomatic relations after a century of enmity, as US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton helped the two sides clear a last-minute snag.
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New Zealand Surfer Survives Tsunami By Riding Giant Wave
World  (tags: tsunami, surfer, interesting, humans, goodnews, news )

Daphna
- 35 days ago - mnn.com
When an 8.3-magnitude earthquake struck on Wednesday morning, causing a massive tsunami that may have claimed nearly 200 lives, New Zealand hospitality student Chris Nel laid down on his surfboard and rode it to safety.
6 comments
Senators Seek to Tighten American Laws Against Anti-Israel Trade Boycotts
World  (tags: usa, politics, government, goodnews, israel, middle-east, world )

Cal
- 38 days ago - jpost.com
Two leading US senators have introduced a bill aimed at strengthening Washington's opposition to the Arab economic and trade embargo against Israel.
22 comments
Gorillas in the Streets of London
World  (tags: goodnews, animalrights, world, humans, ethics, interesting )

Daphna
- 41 days ago - treehugger.com
Sad gorillas, mad gorillas, crazy pirate gorillas, all running through the streets of London. What is going on? It is the annual Great Gorilla Run, sponsored by The Gorilla Organization. Here is the sad thing though: there were almost as many runners cost
2 comments
Costa Rica Creates Department of Peace
World  (tags: Department of Peace, Imagine Peace, conflict resolution, GoodNews )

Peace
- 43 days ago - imaginepeace.com
The ministry will take on new responsibilities, including peace promotion, violence prevention (for example, by targeting a recent increase of juvenile offenders), and an emphasis on conflict resolution.
10 comments
Peace One Day!
World  (tags: Peace activists, world, UnitedNations, GoodNews, humans )

Holly
- 48 days ago - peaceoneday.org
In 1999, filmmaker Jeremy Gilley launched Peace One Day and set out to find a starting point for peace. He had a mission: to document his efforts to establish the first ever annual day of global ceasefire and non-violence with a fixed calendar date.
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U.S., Cuba Talk About Restarting Direct Mail
World  (tags: world, Cuba, usa, interesting, GoodNews, government, 'CIVILLIBERTIES!' )

Cal
- 52 days ago - msnbc.msn.com
Cuba and the United States sat down for rare talks aimed at re-establishing direct mail service Thursday, a modest but positive step that caps a bitter week of recriminations over the extension of Washington's trade embargo against the communist-run islan
7 comments
Sean Kirtley - UK's AR Activists Is Free!!!
World  (tags: animalrights, vivisection, animalwelfare, animalexperiments, UK, AR, Sequani, 'HUMANRIGHTS!', europe, GoodNews, goodnews, HumanRights, humanrights )

Joanna
- 52 days ago - sequani.wordpress.com
Sean Kirtley a Sequani activists convicted and sentenced to four and a half years in prison for simply updating a website STOP Sequani LAB has been found not guilty at appeal and released from prison.
26 comments
New York Homes Raided Over Suspected Al Qaeda Link
World  (tags: terrorism, New York, F.B.I., GoodNews, freedoms )

Lone
- 54 days ago - nytimes.com
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City police and the FBI raided homes in the borough of Queens early on Monday as part of an investigation that has tracked a man suspected of sympathizing with al Qaeda, officials said.
2 comments
Three Britons Sentenced in Plot to Blow Up Airliners
World  (tags: london, terrorism, violence, prison, many years, GoodNews )

Lone
- 55 days ago - nytimes.com
LONDON -- A High Court judge on Monday imposed minimum prison terms of 32 to 40 years on three men convicted last week, after two trials, of plotting to smuggle liquid explosives onto at least seven trans-Atlantic airliners heading to the United States
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