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BREAKING NEWS Indonesian volcano emits ash JAKARTA (AFP) Jul 18, 2003 A volcano in Indonesia's Sulawesi island belched ash on Friday morning but there were no reports of casualties, an official said. Australia launches first regional ocean management plan SYDNEY (AFP) Jul 18, 2003 Australia launched its first ocean management action plan on Friday designed to promote sustainable marine industries while protecting fragile ecosystems off the country's southeast coast. French minister pledges aid for storm-hit region BISCAROSSE, France (AFP) Jul 17, 2003 France's interior minister, Nicolas Sarkozy, on Thursday announced emergency financial aid to regions struck by violent storms this week that killed at least five people. |
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Gorbachev wins German environment prize LUDWIGSBURG, Germany (AFP) Jul 17, 2003 Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev was awarded the 2003 ecology prize Thursday by Germany's Euronatur fund for his efforts to help save the environment while he was president. Finnish forestry group UPM-Kymmene hit by strong euro, weak prices HELSINKI (AFP) Jul 17, 2003 UPM-Kymmene, Finland's second-largest paper and forestry group, reported on Thursday a net profit of 133 million eurosmillion dollars) in the first half of 2003, a 53-percent drop from a year earlier. Italy may open dams to combat drought ROME (AFP) Jul 17, 2003 In a desperate last measure to prevent crops being withered by drought, Italy Thursday considered opening up hydroelectric retaining dams in the Alps to restore flow to the River Po. Rain hampers rescue at flattened workers' camp in northern India SHIMLA, India (AFP) Jul 17, 2003 Heavy rains Thursday hampered an operation to rescue survivors from a flash flood triggered by a violent downpor that flattened a construction camp in a remote Himalayan valley, killing 100 workers. French minister to visit storm-hit region PARIS (AFP) Jul 17, 2003 France's interior minister, Nicolas Sarkozy, was to visit Thursday a southwest region devastated by storms that killed at least five people, officials said. Rain hampers rescue efforts after killer storm lashes India SHIMLA, India (AFP) Jul 17, 2003 Heavy rains Thursday hampered an operation to rescue any survivors from a flash-flood triggered by a sudden cloudburst which roared through a construction camp in a remote Himalayan valley, washing away up to 100 workers, officials said. |
Several injured as storms hits Germany BERLIN (AFP) Jul 17, 2003 Heavy storms hit central and southern Germany overnight injuring several people and causing widespread damage, police and rescue services said Thursday. Bangladesh plans strategy as floods affect millions DHAKA (AFP) Jul 17, 2003 Bangladeshi officials met Thursday to plot anti-flood strategies, fearful that the miserable conditions for millions of waterlogged Bangladeshis could deteriorate further. India's dancing bears get a new lease of life in air-cooled dens AGRA, India (AFP) Jul 17, 2003 Damru and Bijli are active two-year-olds who love climbing trees, eating honey and bananas and investigating their surroundings, while Rasgolla and Gulab Jamun are too frightened to do anything but huddle in a corner. Europe's heat wave thrills tourists, dismays farmers PARIS (AFP) Jul 16, 2003 A summer heat wave across Europe has given a festive air to packed Mediterranean beaches, turned fountains in Paris and Rome into impromptu public showers, and filled parks and woods with picnickers desperate for shade. France on high alert after violent summer storms leave five dead PARIS (AFP) Jul 16, 2003 France on Wednesday issued storm alerts for several parts of the country after heavy rains and violent winds left five people dead in the south and west, interrupting a blistering summer heat wave. Death toll in French storms rises to five PARIS (AFP) Jul 16, 2003 A two-year-old girl who was hit by a falling tree at a campsite in southwestern France died of her injuries on Wednesday, bringing the death toll from violent storms lashing the country to five, officials said. |
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