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At least 20 people have died and more than 670,000 had to be evacuated in China after torrential rain and floods destroyed houses, damaged roads and caused rivers to overflow, state media said Sunday. The fatalities occurred over several days of relentless heavy rain in the centre and south of the country, also leaving another five people missing, according to Xinhua news agency. ... read more 
Tegucigalpa (AFP) July 5, 2009Ousted President Manuel Zelaya headed back to crisis-gripped Honduras on Sunday, one week after he was kicked out of power and as interim leaders' threats to block his arrival sparked bloodshed. The decision by Zelaya -- ousted by the military one week ago -- to return brought the political dispute over his plans to change the constitution to a dramatic climax. Fears of bloodshed were ... more |
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Paris (AFP) July 3, 2009France on Friday rejected a report by the European Union's food safety watchdog that said a controversial strain of genetically-modified corn was safe. In a joint statement, the French ecology and agriculture ministries said the Italy-based European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) had failed to take into account requests to change the way it evaluated the risk. "The conclusions of the ... more  
Dhaka (AFP) July 5, 2009When forest officials in southeastern Bangladesh heard that two tigers had strayed out of the forest and into a remote village they knew they had to act quickly. Though villagers in the area were worried about their own lives, the authorities were racing to save the big cats after a wave of similar incidents in recent years have ended with the endangered animals being beaten to death. ... more  
Ilulissat, Greenland (AFP) July 4, 2009Denmark's Minister for Climate Connie Hedegaard said here Friday there was no "Plan B" if negotiations broke down for an ambitious climate accord at a December world summit in Copenhagen. "It's clear, we are not working for a Plan B," Hedegaard said after a ministerial meeting of 29 countries from all continents to boost the talks that she said were going too slowly. "To seal a deal in ... more  
Seattle WA (SPX) Jul 06, 2009The rain band near the equator that determines the supply of freshwater to nearly a billion people throughout the tropics and subtropics has been creeping north for more than 300 years, probably because of a warmer world, according to research published in the July issue of Nature Geoscience. If the band continues to migrate at just less than a mile (1.4 kilometers) a year, which is the ... more |
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Tegucigalpa (AFP) July 5, 2009A week after Central America's first coup in more than a quarter of a century, tensions were at breaking point in the Central American nation as ousted President Manuel Zelaya planned to return. The country's interim leaders were more defiant than ever in the face of growing isolation and public anger, apparently set on staying put until November elections despite freezes in aid, withdrawn ... more 
Washington (AFP) July 3, 2009In announcing her resignation as Alaska governor Friday, Sarah Palin ensured she will likely remain at the forefront of American politics for some time to come. The surprise move by Palin, who ascended to international fame overnight when she became Republican John McCain's running mate in his failed 2008 presidential campaign and her party's popular but polarizing new cheerleader, immediate ... more 
Madrid (AFP) July 5, 2009Climate change, which could transform the Iberian peninsula into a semi-desert, is forcing winemakers in Spain to consider moving their vines to higher ground to escape the blistering heat. Spain, which has more hectares (acres) of vineyard than any other country in the world, "is in the frontline of climate change," said Juan Francisco Cacho, a wine expert at the University of Zaragoza. ... more 
Jakarta (AFP) July 5, 2009Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who is seeking re-election on July 8, is a dictator's loyal soldier turned leader of a thriving but messy democracy. A former senior general during the Suharto dictatorship, the taciturn 59-year-old has become a standard-bearer for Indonesia's haphazard reform push since the strongman's fall in 1998. Yudhoyono won the country's first direct ... more |
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