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BREAKING NEWS Canada increases spending to protect habitat, species at risk OTTAWA (AFP) Jun 05, 2003 The Canadian government announced Thursday that it would provide a further nine million dollars (6.7 million US) to help conserve habitat and species at risk. US oil group says it defends the environment in Nigeria LAGOS (AFP) Jun 05, 2003 US oil group ChevronTexaco said Thursday that it had spent 400 million dollars over the past nine years on measures to protect Nigeria's environment and population. Oil to be pumped from sunken tanker from next year: Spanish firm MADRID (AFP) Jun 05, 2003 Efforts to extract thousands of tonnes of oil still in the tanks of the sunken tanker Prestige could begin in early 2004, the Spanish petroleum group in charge of the cleanup said Thursday. |
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"New environment" in Iraq should enable truth about weapons to emerge: Blix UNITED NATIONS (AFP) Jun 05, 2003 The fall of Saddam Hussein should make it possible to discover the truth about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, chief UN arms inspector Hans Blix said Thursday, amid mounting controversy over official US and British claims. Dirty water puts two billion at risk, says UN agency NAIROBI (AFP) Jun 05, 2003 The United Nations' environment agency has expressed concern over the depletion and increasing pollution of underground reservoirs on which two billion people depend for their drinking water and irrigation. "New environment in Iraq" should reveal truth about weapons : Blix UNITED NATIONS (AFP) Jun 05, 2003 The fall of Saddam Hussein should make it possible to discover the full truth about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, chief UN arms inspector Hans Blix told the United Nations Security Council on Thursday. First monsoon rains bring hope of relief from killer heatwave in India NEW DELHI (AFP) Jun 05, 2003 India received its first monsoon showers Thursday in the remote northeast region, officials said, bringing hopes of relief from a devastating heat spell that has killed at least 1,347 people. FAO says more efforts needed to safeguard water, "source of food security" ROME (AFP) Jun 05, 2003 The head of the UN Food and Agricultural Association made a global call Thursday for nations to safeguard water, calling it "the source of food security". |
Stronger China no danger to Asia, Hu tells Mongolian parliament ULAN BATOR (AFP) Jun 05, 2003 Chinese President Hu Jintao Thursday told Mongolian lawmakers that a stronger China is not a threat to the rest of Asia and proposed closer economic cooperation between the two nations. China's rivers still plagued by pollution, minister says BEIJING (AFP) Jun 05, 2003 China's two biggest waterways face an unprecedented pollution crisis with water shortages and the massive Three Gorges Dam threatening to devastate the Yellow and Yangtze rivers, officials said Thursday. Indonesia clueless on illegal logging, minister says JAKARTA (AFP) Jun 05, 2003 The Indonesian government has admitted it does not "have a clue" about how to curb rampant illegal logging, a report said Thursday. New Caledonia plans whale sanctuary NOUMEA (AFP) Jun 05, 2003 New Caledonia wants to set up a sanctuary for whales in its exclusive economic zone as part of a South Pacific regional initiative to protect the mammals, the French Pacific territory's government said Thursday. Afghan farmers welcome return of rains KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AFP) Jun 05, 2003 Shah Mahmood, clad in shalwar kameez and waistcoat, looks at the gleaming waters of the reservoir and slowly starts to spin round in Afghanistan's traditional attan dance as fellow villagers follow his lead, twirling gracefully on the dusty fields. |
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