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UN Report, World Leaders, Water Experts Call for Immediate Action to End Water Shortage ISTANBUL, March 17 /PRNewswire/ -- A record-breaking 28,000 attendees, including three princes: Prince Albert II of Monaco, His Imperial Highness Naruhito, The Crown Prince of Japan, and Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange-Nassau; three presidents; five prime ministers; 90 ministers; 63 mayors; delegates from 156 countries and 148 parliamentarians are gathering together this week in Istanbul, Turkey to...

COPENHAGEN and ISTANBUL, March 17 /PRNewswire/ -- From golf courses to books, olive oil to vaccinations, all the goods and services that we rely on, together with many of our daily activities, require a vital resource: water. A new report by the European Environment Agency (EEA) confirms that in many parts of Europe water use is unsustainable and provides recommendations for a new approach to managing water resources. The EEA report 'Water resources across Europe - confronting...

WASHINGTON, March 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Wenonah Hauter of Food & Water Watch, an international consumer advocacy organization based in Washington, D.C., along with Maude Barlow of the Council of Canadians and the Blue Planet Project and representatives of the Latin American network Red VIDA and the Asian organization Focus on the Global South, will be available to speak to the media by telephone on Wednesday, March 11 about their plans to protest the 5th World Water Forum in...

ST. PAUL, Minn., Feb. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Image Sensing Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: ISNS), world leading developer of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) computer-enabled detection and traffic control technology, announced today that it has completed the sale of 275 RTMS(R) G4(TM) radars to ISBAK, Turkey. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20050512/CGISSLOGO) Graham Heywood, General Manager of Image Sensing Systems Europe Ltd., commented, "This sale will...

Honorable Mentions Include Beijing, Istanbul, Mexico City, Milan WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- New York will be honored tonight as the first U.S. city to win the 5th annual Sustainable Transport Award. The other award finalists, Beijing, Istanbul, Mexico City and Milan, will receive honorable mentions. The award presentations will take place at 6:30pm - 7:30pm at the Washington Hilton in Washington, DC as part of the Transportation Research Board Annual Conference, which...

Text of report in English by Turkish privately-owned, mass- circulation daily Hurriyet website on 9 October Websites will continue to be banned as long as they post content inappropriate for Turkish families, a Turkish minister said Wednesday [8 October]. "Practices are needed to protect young people and the public at large from harmful material online," the Turkish Daily News (TDN) quoted Transportation Minister Binali Yildirim as speaking at the international CeBit Information Technology...

By Nochimson, Martha P Try telling the Istanbullus that "film is dead," as they pack five theaters five times a day during the fortnight of the International Istanbul Film Festival, this year from April 5th- 20th. Or even that some of what they are watching are digitally produced images, not film. The zest for what these large, enthusiastic audiences experience as cinema goes on unabated. The Turkish directors who showed their films at the festival gave evidence of a similar delight in...

easyJet has announced that it will launch a new service from the London Gatwick Airport to Istanbul, Turkey, effective December 12, 2008, with fares from GBP35.99 one-way including tax. The airline said that the new route to Istanbul brings the total number of routes from Gatwick to 51 in winter 2008, and the airline expects over 100,000 passengers to travel on the new service in the first 12 months. David Osborne, UK general manager at easyJet, said: "easyJet has seen a huge increase in...

By HARSHADA REGE Shweta Bharadwaj made her debut with Mission Istanbul, but the poor girl couldn't be around to enjoy the release of her first film as she was busy working down South. "I couldn't enjoy the release of my first film because I was shooting for my South film Indumati. In fact my friends would keep a tab on all that appeared in the newspapers and would call me back. Of course I went through all newspapers when I came back, but it isn't the same," she says adding, "In a way it...

To: LEGAL AFFAIRS EDITORS Contact: Beth Drost for The American Society of Transplantation, +1-215-884-6499 MT. LAUREL, N.J., Aug. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Society of Transplantation (AST) endorses The Declaration of Istanbul on Organ Trafficking and Transplant Tourism. The Declaration of Istanbul affirms the principles and practices adopted on May 2, 2008, at an International Summit of more than 150 healthcare professionals, officials, scientists, ethicists and legal scholars from...