Obama to launch clean energy initiative in India

Khaleej Times

The US and India will announce a joint effort to form a center for the development of clean energy. The announcement is expected to occur during Obama's visit to India. Both governments and private organizations are anticipated to provide funding for this project.

This comes amidst difficulties surrounding settling on an agreement for the Kyoto Protocol, aimed at reducing pollution internationally. Obama has attempted to push China and India into forms of energy cleaner than the coal most widely used; however, the US congress has been unwilling to impose restrictions on carbon on a nation-wide scale.

WikiLeaks to Dump Again Monday

Come this Monday once again WikiLeaks will release nearly 400,000 pages of Iran-US war related material, the single largest release of classified documents in US military history. The release may contain material released to the military but not released to the public before. The documents are expected to to contain material relating to possible ethnic cleansing, secret prisons, and a supposed US involved bloodbath. An investigation is ongoing to who might have leaked the information with the main suspect being Bradley Manning, the suspect in the Afghan war leaks.

Amy Pacheco