Noontime News Roundup – October 25th, 2012

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Romney continues to back Mourdock in spite of Senate hopeful’s rape remarks

Mitt Romney’s campaign has refused to withdraw his support from Richard Mourdock, the Republican Senate candidate in Indiana who claimed that pregnancies from rape are “something that God intended to happen”.

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David Attenborough: US politicians duck climate change because of cost

One of the world’s leading naturalists has accused US politicians of ducking the issue of climate change because of the economic cost of tackling it and warned that it would take a terrible example of extreme weather to wake people up to the dangers of global warming.

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New York Times reports 11% rise in paid-for digital subscriptions

The New York Times has reported an 11% increase in paid-for digital subscriptions to almost 600,000 in the three months to the end of September.

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Hurricane Sandy makes Cuban landfall

Hurricane Sandy has made landfall west of Santiago de Cuba in southern Cuba, where residents boarded over windows and cleared drainage gutters in preparation for the strengthening storm that has killed two people in the Caribbean.

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Israel-Gaza fighting subsides after Egyptian intervention

A deadly flare-up in fighting between Israel and Gaza‘s militant Hamas group has subsided after Egypt helped to restore calm before the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha

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China to approve new nuclear power plants, ending moratorium after Fukushima

China is ready to approve new nuclear power plants as part of ambitious plans to reduce reliance on oil and coal, ending a moratorium it imposed because of Japan‘s Fukushima disaster last year.

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Energy Independence For U.S.? Try Energy Security

Gone from this year’s presidential campaign are most mentions of climate change, environmental pollution, or green jobs. Former Gov. Mitt Romney, the GOP presidential nominee, prefers to call attention instead to the country’s continuing dependence on foreign energy sources.

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