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Somali Pirate War Escalates With Multiple Attacks Nairobi (AFP) Nov 16, 2008 
Somali pirates released a Japanese chemical tanker and its crew, but seized another one in the Gulf of Aden, despite the presence of several warships patrolling the area, officials said Sunday. They released the Stolt Valor and its crew of 18 Indians, two Filipinos, a Russian and Bangladeshi, said Andrew Mwangura who runs the Kenya chapter of the Seafarers Assistance Programme. The vessel ha ... read moreMajor earthquake hits Indonesia, tsunami warning lifted 
Jakarta (AFP) Nov 17, 2008A major 7.5 magnitude earthquake struck off Indonesia's Sulawesi island early Monday, destroying houses and triggering a tsunami warning but there were no reports of fatalities, officials said. The US Geological Survey (USGS), which initially said the quake had a magnitude of 7.8 before downgrading it to 7.5, said it struck 136 kilometres (84 miles) off the coastal town Gorontalo at a depth ... more |
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 Four dead, at least 12 injured after tornados hit Michigan: US media Italy challenges EU over key climate tool Press Release from Business Wire: Onego Bio Swiss to vote on creating giant 'climate fund' After oil, US moves to secure access to Venezuelan minerals 
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Left untouched, world's largest mangrove forest recovering fast
Dhaka (AFP) Nov 15, 2008The world's largest mangrove forest is recovering fast from one of the worst disasters in its history, a year after it was badly damaged by a devastating cyclone, Bangladesh officials say. The Sundarbans bore the brunt when Cyclone Sidr - packing winds of up to 250 kilometres (150 miles) an hour - slammed into southern Bangladesh on November 15, 2007, killing over 3,500 people and wiping o ... more Somalians face famine on massive scale: Red Cross 
Geneva (AFP) Nov 14, 2008Hundreds of thousands of Somalians face a major famine because of violence and a drought that is ravaging the centre and south of the country, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said Friday. "We are seeing a major deterioration of the humanitarian situation in Somalia," said Pascal Mauchle, head of the organisation's delegation for the country. "Hundreds of thousands of ... more Three dead, 18 missing in China tunnel collapse: media 
Beijing (AFP) Nov 16, 2008Three people have been confirmed dead in China after a partially built subway tunnel collapsed and the survival chances for 18 others still missing is slim, state media said on Sunday. The accident happened Saturday in the east Chinese city of Hangzhou, trapping construction workers underground while the tunnel was swiftly flooded with water from a nearby river, the Xinhua news agency report ... more  |
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Giant clams make come back in Philippines thanks to science
Bolinao, Philippines (AFP) Nov 14, 2008Marine biologist Suzanne Licuanan leans over the side of her battered blue and white motor boat to collect another bag of her precious cargo - giant clam sperm. Holding up the bag containing eight litres (14 pints) of the cloudy liquid, she says: "It looks like buko (coconut) juice, doesn't it." The world's largest shell fish weighing up to 230 kilos (507 pounds) and measuring up to 1.4 ... more Fishery meeting could decide bluefin tuna's fate 
Paris (AFP) Nov 16, 2008The survival of Atlantic and Mediterranean bluefin tuna, exploited to the brink of collapse, could depend on international negotiations starting Monday in Marrakech, Morocco. The International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) will try to hammer out a new plan that protects the overfished species without throttling the multi-million dollar industry built around it. ... more DR Congo army feared, not fearless 
Kinshasa (AFP) Nov 14, 2008The Congolese army, whose incompetence has been rudely exposed by a string of reverses at the hands of a renegade general, is a hotchpotch of badly-paid troops seen as both corrupt and ill-disciplined. After beating a humiliating retreat last month from the Democratic Republic of Congo's main eastern city Goma, the army again disgraced itself this week in a looting spree as rebel general Lau ... more Activist Chinese professor arrested after forming party: wife 
Beijing (AFP) Nov 14, 2008Chinese police have arrested an activist university professor on charges of inciting subversion after he set up an independent political party, his wife told AFP on Friday. Guo Quan, a professor at Nanjing Normal University in eastern China and frequent government critic, was taken into police custody on Thursday, his wife Li Jing said by phone. Guo formed the China People's Livelihood ... more |
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