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From booting Stephen Harper to highlighting racial injustice, progressives can take heart in these outcomes

Commentator George Monbiot writes Saturday of the draft agreement, "By comparison to what it could have been, it’s a miracle. By comparison to what it should have been, it’s a disaster."

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) issued a Director’s Decision Friday rejecting an appeal by environmental watchdog groups to suspend operations at the nearly two dozen reactors in the United States that have the same containment system as the ill-fated Fukushima nuclear reactors in Japan. Greenpeace charges the NRC is “backing off post-Fukushima fixes at reactors around the country due to fear that added regulatory costs would topple more nuclear plants."

Federal watchdog report "calls into question" US efforts to stamp out opium production.

Bangladesh swept by a third day of protests that leaves nearly 150 injured.

India's Intellectual Property Appellate Board allows license for generic cancer drug at fraction of cost of Bayer's.