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Firefighters battled blazes in five countries along the northern Mediterranean rim Sunday, slowly gaining the upper hand after an exhausting week that left eight people dead. Tens of thousands of hectares of countryside have been devastated mainly in Italy, Spain, France and Greece with initial estimates suggesting that the insurance bill may already run into hundreds of millions of euros ... read more 
Beijing (AFP) July 26, 2009About 30,000 Chinese steel workers clashed with police over plans to merge their mill with another company, and beat a manager to death, a Hong Kong-based human rights group has said. About 100 people were injured in the incident on Friday in the northeastern city of Tonghua, the Information Centre for Human Rights and Democracy said in a statement. A police officer at the Tonghua ... more |
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Istanbul (AFP) July 24, 2009An Australian-based fur company has begun culling baby seals in Namibia after animal rights activists failed to pay on time the millions of dollars they pledged to buy the company out, the owner said Friday. "Nothing came from these associations and we have begun the annual slaughter," Hatem Yavuz -- who has offices both in Sydney and Istanbul in his native Turkey -- told AFP. Earlier ... more  
Ithaca NY (SPX) Jul 27, 2009The air in Beijing during the 2008 Olympics was cleaner than the previous year's, due to aggressive efforts by the Chinese government to curtail traffic, increase emissions standards and halt construction in preparation for the games, according to a Cornell study. Led by Max Zhang, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, the study indicates that such measures as ... more  
Las Manos, Nicaragua (AFP) July 26, 2009The head of the Honduran military said Sunday his troops will not fire on supporters of ousted President Manuel Zelaya, as the deposed leader spent a third day across the border in Nicaraguan plotting his return. "We will not fire on our people," the armed forces commander, General Romeo Vasquez, told Honduran broadcaster Radio Globo, one of the few media outlets critical of the interim ... more |
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Riyadh (AFP) July 25, 2009Saudi Arabia is likely to ban the elderly and children from the hajj this year to limit the risk of swine flu, but this will not change country quotas for the pilgrimage, a health official said Saturday. Dr. Khaled Marghlani, spokesman for the Saudi health ministry, said the government is expected to implement recommendations to block people older than 65 and younger than 12 from the hajj ... more  
Harare (AFP) July 24, 2009Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe on Friday called for an end to political attacks, standing with his former rival, Premier Morgan Tsvangirai to start a prayer weekend for national reconciliation. The southern African country suffered months of deadly unrest following last year's disputed elections, when Mugabe failed to win a majority for the first time since independence in 1980. ... more 
Mexico City (AFP) July 26, 2009Much of Mexico has relaxed after swine flu first unleashed a wave of panic here and across the world three months ago, but cases are now soaring in the country's impoverished southeast. Authorities insist that A(H1N1) is under control, despite a peak in Chiapas -- an area with poor indigenous communities, popular tourist sites, and heavy traffic of Central American immigrants heading to the ... more |
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