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6.5 earthquake sparks panic in southern Mexico Tuxtla Gutierrez, Mexico (AFP) Oct 16, 2008 
A 6.5 magnitude earthquake struck Mexico's Chiapas state Thursday, sparking panic in the town of Tapachula, near the Mexico-Guatemala border, local civil protection officials and US scientists said. Mexican officials, who estimated the strength of the temblor at 6.2 using the Richter scale, said there were no immediate reports of damage. The US Geological Service (USGS) measured the ... read moreFerocious Hurricane Omar swirls out to sea 
San Juan, Puerto Rico (AFP) Oct 16, 2008Hurricane Omar was rapidly losing strength as it headed out to sea Thursday, after pounding the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico as a ferocious Category Three storm. At peak strength, Omar packed lashing 200-kilometer per hour (125-mph) winds and drenching rains, but by 1500 GMT maximum sustained winds were around 140 kilometers (85 miles) per hour. The US National Hurricane Center in ... more |
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 'Significant' acceleration of global warming since 2015: study Eight dead as tornados surge across central US In Finland, kids take hovercraft to school over frozen Baltic Sea 
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Ethiopian PM does not rule out Somalia pullout
Addis Ababa (AFP) Oct 16, 2008Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi on Thursday did not rule out pulling his troops from Somalia but warned his country would not hesitate to come back to crush hardline Islamists. "We have had several negotiations with all stakeholders and we will review our position in the coming months," he told parliament. "If the Somali political scenario improves and its stakeholders assure us of ... more Eight more deaths in Algerian floods 
Algiers (AFP) Oct 16, 2008At least eight people were reported drowned in severe flooding over the past two days in the southwest of Algeria, officials said Thursday. The latest incidents occurred in the region of Bechar, more than 1,000 kilometres (600 miles) from the capital Algiers, after the normally arid region was hit with heavy rain. The national crisis centre warned the death toll could go even higher ... more Don't count on China to save world economy: economist 
Sao Paulo (AFP) Oct 16, 2008Hopes that China will emerge as the world's economic savior in the global crisis are overblown and ignore that country's dependence on the US market, a US economist in Beijing told the Brazilian newspaper Valor Thursday. "A significant slowdown in US growth will hit emerging markets in general, and China in particular," Michael Pettis, professor of finance at the University of Beijing, said. ... more  |
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How Deep Is The Gene Pool
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Oct 17, 2008Early in the history of life, when microscopic single cells were the only game in town, genetic material may have been passed around as easily as baseball cards. This gene swapping, known as horizontal gene transfer, is common among bacteria today, and it may have been occurring before the three domains of life developed. The last universal common ancestor (LUCA) of the bacteria, archaea ... more Climate Change Will Affect Public Health 
San Diego CA (SPX) Oct 17, 2008Extreme heat events (EHE), or heat waves, are the most prominent cause of weather-related human mortality in the United States, responsible for more deaths annually than hurricanes, lightning, tornadoes, floods and earthquakes combined. These events, and other climate-related changes in the worldwide environment that directly affect public health, are examined in the November issue of the ... more Chinese to invest millions in Guinea Bissau phones 
Bissau (AFP) Oct 16, 2008China is investing 36 million euros (48.5 million dollars) in modernising Guinea Bissau's obsolete fixed telephone network and another three million euros in the mobile phone network, a government minister said Thursday. "It only remains to launch the operation in 90 days," Transport and Communication Minister Vicente Blute told AFP. The work will be carried out by the Huawei group. ... more China dairy companies blame middle men for milk scandal 
Hohhot, China (AFP) Oct 16, 2008China's biggest dairy companies blamed middle men on Thursday for the nation's tainted milk scandal, as they guaranteed their produce was now safe. Milk products made by Yili and Mengniu, along with those of many other leading Chinese brands, were last month found to contain melamine, an industrial chemical normally used to make plastics. "The milk stations that had problems were the one ... more |
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