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EU plans crackdown on high-risk Chinese food products Brussels (AFP) Sept 25, 2008 
The European Commission decided Thursday on safeguard measures in the face of the tainted Chinese milk scare, including plans to ban the most risky imports like biscuits and chocolate. Although Chinese dairy products like milk and yoghurt have been long banned from the 27-nation European union, the commission decided that consumers needed more precautions against products containing milk fro ... read moreIndia bans Chinese dairy products 
New Delhi (AFP) Sept 25, 2008India banned Thursday the import of dairy products from China over concerns they could be contaminated with dangerous chemicals. A government spokesman told AFP the temporary ban was only a preventative measure since India does not import dairy products from China. India joined more than a dozen countries that have ordered bans or taken other steps to curb consumption following a scandal ... more |
Search called off after Indonesia landfill collapse kills seven
February fifth warmest on record, extreme rain in Europe: EU monitor Venezuelan lawmakers advance mining reforms sought by US UN warns of environmental hazards from Middle East war Antarctic sea ice improves after four years of extreme lows: US scientists Water emerges as a dangerous new war target Indonesia landfill collapse kills five Indonesia landfill collapse kills four Swiss vote down proposal for massive 'climate fund' Philippines' 'Cockroach Lord' goes to bat for misunderstood bugs 
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Pressure mounts on China over tainted milk
Beijing (AFP) Sept 25, 2008Pressure mounted on China Thursday over the tainted milk scandal, as the EU unveiled plans to ban some of its food products and the UN deplored attempts by dairy firms to deceive the public. The European Commission said it was preparing an "explicit, total" ban on all products originating from China for infants and young children containing milk, a spokeswoman told journalists. ... more China biggest carbon polluter, world levels at record: scientists 
Paris (AFP) Sept 26, 2008China has leapfrogged the United States as the world's biggest carbon emitter and India is heading for third place, scientists said on Friday in a report that warned global greenhouse-gas levels were scaling record peaks. The report, by a research consortium called the Global Carbon Project (GCP), confirms an estimate that China has become the biggest producer of carbon dioxide (CO2), the pr ... more Canadian warship extends escort mission for Somalian aid 
Ottawa (AFP) Sept 25, 2008Canada will extend by a month the mission of one of its warships to escort civilian ships delivering humanitarian aid to Somalia, announced the Ministry of Defense on Thursday. The mission extension until October 23 for the "Ville de Quebec" frigate was decided after a request from the World Food Program (WFP), the ministry said in a statement. Since 2007, warships from NATO countries ha ... more  |
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Donors should double funding for UN food program: Chinese PM
United Nations (AFP) Sept 25, 2008Chinese Premier Wen Jiaobao urged rich countries here Thursday to double donations to the UN World Food Program over the next five years and to do more to cancel or reduce debt for poor countries. "I wish to propose that donor countries double their donations to the World Food Program (WFP) in the next five years and the international community do more to cancel or reduce debts owed by least ... more Storms batter China, 18 killed including Briton: state media 
Shanghai (AFP) Sept 25, 2008Torrential rains left at least 18 dead in China, including a Briton, and 17 missing, as Typhoon Hagupit pounded the south and another storm battered the quake-hit southwest, state media said Thursday. Ten people were confirmed dead in southern Guangdong province and Guangxi Zhuang region, where Hagupit toppled 18,500 houses, destroyed crops and brought reservoirs to the brink of overflowing, ... more Proton therapy may prevent later cancers 
Boston (UPI) Sep 25, 2008 U.S. scientists say proton therapy patients have a two-fold lesser risk of developing a secondary cancer compared with being treated by photon radiation. Proton therapy involves a specialized type of external beam radiation using protons rather than X-rays to treat cancer. The first-of-its-kind study, led by Dr. Nancy Tarbell of Massachusetts General Hospital, contradicts theorie ... more Jordan valley withers in wilderness of Mideast politics 
Ein Gedi, Israel (AFP) Sept 25, 2008As Israeli holidaymakers watch the Dead Sea retreating, leaving massive sinkholes in its wake, Palestinian farmers farther up the valley pry crops from increasingly parched soil. The Jordan Valley is in the grip of a severe water crisis, exacerbated by the region's various conflicts, that threatens the livelihoods of its Israeli and Arab residents. And it is transforming the landscape before ... more |
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