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BREAKING NEWS France's top health official resigns as heatwave death toll climbs PARIS (AFP) Aug 18, 2003 France's surgeon-general resigned Monday amid a deepening scandal over the government's handling of a record-breaking heatwave that the health minister admitted could have caused the death of up to 5,000 people. European heatwave deaths and the French exception PARIS (AFP) Aug 18, 2003 While the French health minister on Monday said it was plausible that up to 5,000 French people had died in the recent heatwave, other European countries say they are unsure whether they suffered the same toll. WWII wrecks emerge from Danube in Croatia due to drought ZAGREB (AFP) Aug 18, 2003 The wrecks of a German tank, two military jeeps and a truck dating from World War II emerged from the Danube in eastern Croatia as the result of a severe drought that has caused record low water levels, the HINA news agency reported Monday. |
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Two killed as France lashed by storms GRENOBLE, France (AFP) Aug 18, 2003 The weather continued to challenge France's emergency services Monday as brief but brutal storms lashed the south and east, days after a gruelling heatwave. Pakistan demands compensation over grounded Greek ship KARACHI (AFP) Aug 18, 2003 Pakistan has lodged a formal complaint with the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) claiming damages from the owner of a Greek tanker after a massive oil spill from its broken hull polluted a large coastal belt near the Karachi port, a senior official said Monday. France's heatwave prompts early burgundy, champagne harvests PARIS (AFP) Aug 18, 2003 Harvesting of some of France's most prestigious burgundy and champagne wine labels will start earlier than ever before this year because of this summer's intense heatwave, growers and dealers announced Monday. Slow progress in transfer of oil from grounded tanker off Pakistani coast KARACHI (AFP) Aug 18, 2003 Pakistani authorities said Monday they had so far managed to salvage one-sixth of the oil still contained in a grounded tanker as they attempted to contain a massive oil spill off the Arabian Sea city of Karachi. French surgeon-general resigns after minister admits up to 5,000 heatwave deaths PARIS (AFP) Aug 18, 2003 A row over government handling of a deadly heatwave claimed its first official scalp Monday when France's surgeon-general resigned after the health minister admitted it was "plausible" the death toll could hit France's heatwave row claims first political scalp PARIS (AFP) Aug 18, 2003 France's surgeon-general Lucien Abenhaim quit on Monday, becoming the first political casualty in a row over a prolonged heatwave that killed thousands of people. |
Prestige oil damage likely to top Exxon Valdez, says damning Spanish study MADRID (AFP) Aug 18, 2003 Damage caused by the sinking of the Prestige oil tanker off Spain last year is likely to exceed the Exxon Valdez disaster, according to a report Monday which sharply criticised the Spanish government's handling of the catastrophe. Prestige oil damage likely to exceed Exxon Valdez: report MADRID (AFP) Aug 18, 2003 The damage caused by the oil slick from the Prestige tanker which sank off Spain last year will likely exceed that of the Exxon Valdez disaster, according to a report released Monday which criticised the Spanish government's handling of the catastrophe. France's heatwave row claims first political casualty PARIS (AFP) Aug 18, 2003 France's surgeon-general, Lucien Abenhaim, submitted his resignation on Monday after his office was criticised for its handling of a heatwave that killed thousands of people. Icelandic whalers go empty-handed as hunt resumes REYJAVIK (AFP) Aug 18, 2003 Four days after ending a 14-year moratorium on whale hunting in defiance of world opinion, Iceland's whalers had still not caught anything on Monday because boats full of tourists and the media kept getting in the way. Slow transfer of oil from tanker grounded off Pakistani coast KARACHI (AFP) Aug 18, 2003 Pakistani authorities trying to contain a massive oil spill off the Arabian Sea city of Karachi have managed to salvage one-sixth of the oil still contained in a grounded tanker, they said Monday. France says death toll from heatwave could reach 5,000 PARIS (AFP) Aug 18, 2003 The French government said on Monday it was "plausible" that the death toll from a record-breaking two-week heatwave could now be as high as 5,000 and belatedly acknowledged there had been shortcomings in the way the crisis was handled. |
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