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BREAKING NEWS Factfile on Mauritania NOUAKCHOTT (AFP) Jun 08, 2003 Mauritania, a pro-Western Islamic republic built in the sands of the Sahara, was Sunday the scene of a failed putsch to depose longtime President Maaouiya Ould Taya, government sources said. Sweden brings oil spill under control YSTAD, Sweden (AFP) Jun 08, 2003 After hard work by hundreds of volunteers over the weekend to clean up an oil spill from a sunken Chinese vessel on Sweden's southern coast, officials on Sunday said that the worst was over. India's annual monsoon advances into southernmost Kerala state HYDERABAD, India (AFP) Jun 08, 2003 The annual monsoon rain lashed India's southernmost Kerala state Sunday and was likely to advance in the next 48 hours deep into areas scorched by a killer heatwave, weather officials said. |
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Heatwave that claimed 162 lives in Pakistan to subside in 24 hours ISLAMABAD (AFP) Jun 08, 2003 Rain coupled with dust and thunderstorms are expected to bring relief to parts of Pakistan in the grip of a heatwave that has killed more than 160 people, an official said Sunday. Australian tourist dies of heatstroke on Indian train NEW DELHI (AFP) Jun 08, 2003 An Australian woman died of heatstroke while travelling in a crowded train through the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, officials said Sunday. Light rain brings relief to parched India, but heatwave to continue HYDERABAD, India (AFP) Jun 08, 2003 Light rain has brought some relief to the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh where a heatwave has killed 1,317 people in the past three weeks but the worst is not yet over, meteorologists said Sunday. Three dead, three missing after torrential Tajikistan rains DUSHANBE (AFP) Jun 08, 2003 Aid agencies dispatched tents and warm blankets to northern Tajikistan Sunday after torrential rain that killed three people and left three missing and hundreds more homeless. Australian tourist dies of heat travelling in Indian train NEW DELHI (AFP) Jun 08, 2003 An Australian woman died of heatstroke while travelling in a crowded train through the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, the Press Trust of India (PTI) news agency reported Sunday. Greek shipping warns 2010 scrapping of single-hulls could disrupt oil flows ATHENS (AFP) Jun 08, 2003 The Greek shipping community, the industry's biggest player worldwide, has strongly opposed a European Union decision to send single-hull oil tankers to the scrapyards by 2010 and warned the move will disrupt international petroleum flows around the turn of the decade. |
Plan to develop Mekong subdued by environmental, social concerns SINGAPORE (AFP) Jun 08, 2003 A 14-billion-dollar plan to develop the Mekong region over the rest of the decade will fall well short of its targets, with environment and social concerns an important reason for the failure, rights activists say. Sweden boosts oil clean-up YSTAD, Sweden (AFP) Jun 07, 2003 Efforts to clean up an oil slick caused by a sunken Chinese vessel along the southern coast of Sweden were being stepped up on Saturday, the Scandinavian kingdom's environmental authorities said. Ukrainian president sacks environment minister KIEV (AFP) Jun 07, 2003 Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma on Saturday sacked his Environment Minister Vassyl Chevchuk, accusing him of seriously mismanaging Ukraine's natural resources, a spokeswoman for the presidency said. Light rain forecast for southern Indian state reeling under heat wave HYDERABAD, India (AFP) Jun 07, 2003 Light rain was Saturday forecast for parts of the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh where an intense heatwave has killed 1,317 people in the past three weeks, officials said. India's bachelor PM, president making country "dry, arid, infertile" NEW DELHI (AFP) Jun 07, 2003 A provincial chief from India's main opposition Congress party has told an election rally that India is suffering nature's "curse" because both the president and prime minister are bachelors, a report said Saturday. Two killed, hundreds left homeless in torrential Tajikistan rains DUSHANBE (AFP) Jun 07, 2003 At least two people were killed Saturday as torrential rain fell over northern Tajikistan, leaving hundreds homeless, an official with the Tajik emergencies ministry said. |
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