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BREAKING NEWS Italy's electricity company to flick switch again as heatwave continues ROME (AFP) Jun 29, 2003 Italy's national electricity company warned consumers across the country on Sunday to brace themselves for more power cuts as demand during the unusually hot weather continued to overload the system. Thousands hit as river waters rise amid heavy rains in Bangladesh DHAKA (AFP) Jun 29, 2003 Thousands more Bangladeshis were forced to head for higher ground Sunday as water levels rose in major rivers due to heavy rains, officials said. Family of six feared dead in Nepal mudslide KATHMANDU (AFP) Jun 29, 2003 Six members of a family were feared dead after their home was destroyed by a mudslide caused by torrential rains in southeastern Nepal, police said Sunday. |
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Emergency directive issued to fight flooding along the Yangtze River BEIJING (AFP) Jun 29, 2003 An emergency directive has been issued to local governments along China's Yangtze River urging rapid implementation of flood controls following a week of torrential rains that have killed dozens of people, state press said Sunday. New Caledonian natural beauty is cosmetics goldmine for French entrepreneur NOUMEA (AFP) Jun 29, 2003 New Caledonia's flora is among the most bountiful and diverse in the world, a fact not unnoticed by one entrepreneur who is selling plant extracts to the world's cosmetic giants. Isolated villagers pay price for bears' mating success IOANNINA, Greece (AFP) Jun 29, 2003 Brown bears in the mountains of northwestern Greece have been so successful at reproducing under a recent scheme that isolated villagers have begun barricading themselves in for protection. US confronts growing attacks in Iraq, as two US soldiers found dead BAGHDAD (AFP) Jun 29, 2003 US forces Sunday faced mounting tensions in Iraq after troops recovered the bodies of two US soldiers who had been missing after an apparent abduction and one soldier was killed and four wounded in a separate attack. Greenpeace launches clean water campaign in contaminated Iraqi villages BAGHDAD (AFP) Jun 28, 2003 Environmental group Greenpeace on Saturday urged villagers near Iraq's largest and badly-looted nuclear facility to stop using radioactive barrels to store water and food. Heavy rains and landslides kill dozens in China BEIJING (AFP) Jun 28, 2003 Torrential rains and landslides have killed dozens of people in southern and central China and caused millions of dollars in damage, media reports said Saturday. |
50,000 displaced by second wave of floods in India's northeast GUWAHATI, India (AFP) Jun 28, 2003 At least 50,000 people were displaced overnight in a second wave of floods triggered by heavy rains in the northeastern Indian state of Assam, officials said Saturday. Nine killed, toll 40 as rains trigger flash floods in Bangladesh DHAKA (AFP) Jun 28, 2003 At least nine more people were killed as pre-monsoon rains triggered flash floods and landslides in calamity-prone Bangladesh, taking the toll to 40 in three days, officials and residents said Saturday. Iraqi Kurdish villagers flee after sulphur explosion attributed to sabotage ARBIL, Iraq (AFP) Jun 28, 2003 Residents of the Iraqi Kurdish village of Mahmur, some 50 kilometers (30 miles) southwest of this Kurdish regional capital, fled their homes on Friday following an explosion of a stock of sulphur attributed to sabotage. US aid agency says Bechtel's Iraq contract requires environmental safeguards WASHINGTON (AFP) Jun 27, 2003 A US contract with Bechtel Group to help rebuild war-torn Iraq requires the well-connected construction company to heed environmental safeguards, a government official said Friday. El Nino over for 2003 but La Nina on the cards: WMO GENEVA (AFP) Jun 27, 2003 El Nino, the weather pattern which has been blamed for extreme conditions in many areas around the Pacific Ocean, is over for 2003, the World Meteorological Organisation said on Friday. US reports 1.3 percent increase in carbon dioxide emissions WASHINGTON (AFP) Jun 27, 2003 US carbon dioxide emissions, which are considered a culprit in global warming, increased 1.3 percent in 2002, according to a preliminary government estimate released Friday. |
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