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BREAKING NEWS Some 1,300 deaths due to heatwave in Portugal: report LISBON (AFP) Aug 21, 2003 Over 1,300 more people died in Portugal in the first two weeks of August than in the previous year, and officials believe the extra deaths were mostly due to the heatwave that ravaged much of southern Europe, the national news agency Lusa said. Chirac, government squirm as French anger at heatwave deaths grows PARIS (AFP) Aug 21, 2003 President Jacques Chirac and his government on Thursday were battling their worst political crisis since winning elections last year as the French expressed growing anger over the death toll from a recent heatwave, which could top 10,000. Indian government clears Pepsi, Coke of environmentalists' charges NEW DELHI (AFP) Aug 21, 2003 The Indian government said Thursday that soft drinks sold by Coca-Cola and Pepsi were safe and did not include high levels of pesticides as alleged in an environmental group's report that triggered protests across the country. |
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Three orang-utans speared to death in Malaysia: report KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) Aug 21, 2003 Three orang-utans under rehabilitation at a nature reserve in a resort in Malaysia's eastern Sabah state have been found speared to death, a report said Thursday. Giant panda in US zoo fails to deliver second twin SAN DIEGO, California (AFP) Aug 21, 2003 Officials at a US zoo were Wednesday holding their breath as they waited for a giant panda to deliver the second of twin cubs more than a day after the first was born. France's Chirac demands answers on heatwave crisis as death toll mounts PARIS (AFP) Aug 20, 2003 President Jacques Chirac has ordered his government to explain how a heat wave that roasted France for the first half of August resulted in a death toll estimated in the thousands, officials said Wednesday. Europe's bizarre harvest mirrors climate-change prediction: New Scientist PARIS (AFP) Aug 20, 2003 Shifting harvests in Europe this year, triggered by extreme but local bouts of rain, heat and drought, eerily foreshadow predictions made last year that warn global warming will reshape European agriculture, New Scientist says. Russian chemical weapons may be polluting White Sea: scientist MOSCOW (AFP) Aug 20, 2003 Russian scientists have uncovered evidence that chemical weapons may be buried in the seabed of the White Sea off Russia's northwestern coast, a scientist with the Russian Geological Institute said Wednesday. Brussels orders emergency trawling ban off Scottish coast BRUSSELS (AFP) Aug 20, 2003 The European Commission ordered an emergency ban on trawling in an area off the Scottish coast with immediate effect, to protect unique deep-water coral reefs in the area. |
Germany says heat wave likely killed pensioners KARLSRUHE, Germany (AFP) Aug 20, 2003 The heat wave that swept Europe earlier this month is the probable cause of the deaths of 26 elderly people in western Germany, a health official said Wednesday. France's Chirac demands answers amid rising heat wave death toll PARIS (AFP) Aug 20, 2003 President Jacques Chirac has ordered his government to explain how a heat wave that roasted France for the first half of August resulted in a death toll estimated in the thousands, officials said Wednesday. Pakistan launches probe into worst ever oil spill KARACHI (AFP) Aug 20, 2003 Pakistan on Wednesday launched a probe into the grounding of a Greek-controlled oil tanker behind the worst oil spill in the country's history. Chirac demands answers amid fears of rising heatwave death toll in France PARIS (AFP) Aug 20, 2003 President Jacques Chirac has ordered his government to explain how a heatwave that roasted France for the first half of August resulted in a death toll estimated in the thousands, officials said Wednesday. 10,400 more deaths than normal during French heatwave: undertakers PARIS (AFP) Aug 20, 2003 France's undertakers said Wednesday there were 10,400 more deaths than usual so far this month, amid claims that thousands of people may have died from the effects of a heatwave that hit Europe. Landslide kills six in northern Ethiopia ADDIS ABABA (AFP) Aug 20, 2003 Landslides have killed six workers and seriously wounded six others at a hydro-electric dam being constructed on the Tekezze River in northern Ethiopia, the Ethiopian News Agency (ENA) said on Wednesday. |
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