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 Beijing (AFP) July 27, 2009 
The number of people left dead from torrential rains and floods in southwest and central China rose to 38, state media reported Monday. A downpour that hit Miyi county in Sichuan province for around 10 hours from late Sunday left 22 dead and seven missing, Xinhua news agency said. Meanwhile, 16 people were killed and one was missing after torrential rains battered Hunan province in ... read more 
Dhaka (AFP) July 27, 2009Bangladesh has planned a raft of projects costing 4.35 billion dollars to fight the effects of climate change on its impoverished millions, a minister said Monday. The country has been forecast to bear the brunt of climate change, and scientists say floods, droughts and cyclones have already increased. Environment minister Mustafizur Rahman told AFP his government was working on projects ... more |
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Mogadishu, Somalia (UPI) Jul 27, 2009 As the U.S. Navy warns of an expected surge in pirate attacks off Somalia as the monsoon season comes to an end, the European Union has unveiled plans to extend aerial surveillance by its naval task force 1,000 miles southward into the Indian Ocean. The EU anti-piracy force's commander, Rear Adm. Peter Hudson, said on July 23 that three aircraft currently based at Djibouti, a former ... more  
Richland WA (SPX) Jul 28, 2009The newest supercomputer in town is almost 15 times faster than its predecessor and ready to take on problems in areas such as climate science, hydrogen storage and molecular chemistry. The $21.4 million Chinook supercomputer was built by HP, tested by a variety of researchers, and has now been commissioned for use by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the Department of Energy. ... more  
Paris (AFP) July 27, 2009Governments are scrambling to buy up hundreds of millions of doses of swine flu vaccine but health experts warn the poor may lose out as wealthy countries corner strictly limited supplies. The World Health Organisation has unofficially estimated that the world's labs may only be able to produce around 900 million doses for the A(H1N1) strain per year, for a planet that is home to 6.8 billion ... more |
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Washington (AFP) July 27, 2009Anxiously eyeing the approach of winter, US health officials are urgently gearing up for a huge vaccine campaign hoping Americans will swing behind efforts to protect them from swine flu. "Ultimately, the number of people that we hope will be vaccinated before the fall winter wave of H1N1 arrives will exceed any of the previous vaccine campaigns that we've conducted in this country," Michael ... more 
Washington (AFP) July 27, 2009The US pointman on climate change voiced optimism Monday at reaching a new global treaty this year, saying that top polluters China and the United States were both serious about taking action. The top developed and developing economies discussed global warming among a host of issues as they held top-level talks in Washington. The talks come as the clock ticks to a December conference in ... more  
Ocotal, Nicaragua (AFP) July 27, 2009Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya vowed to stay all week in Nicaragua just steps away from Honduras, as Congress was set Monday to debate a mediator's proposal to break a monthlong political deadlock. The San Jose Accord, proposed by Costa Rican President Oscar Arias, calls for Zelaya to be restored to power, but with various limits. The interim leaders who took control after the ... more |
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