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 Guwahati, India (AFP) Sept 21, 2009 
A strong 6.1-magnitude earthquake struck the remote Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan Monday, killing at least ten people and damaging monasteries and other buildings, state-run media reported. "Ten people were killed of which three victims are of Indian origin," Bhutan Broadcasting Service, the country's national radio reported Monday night. The three Indians died after they were hit by ... read more 
Singapore (AFP) Sept 21, 2009Piracy in the South China Sea has hit a five-year high with tankers and large container ships most prone to attack, an international monitoring agency said Monday. A spokeswoman for the information sharing centre of the Regional Cooperation Agreement on Combating Piracy and Armed Robbery against Ships in Asia (ReCAAP) told AFP there were at least 10 cases of sea attacks reported in 2009 so ... more |
Education for girls hit hard by India's drying wells
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Paris, France (ESA) Sep 22, 2009By merging more than a decade of atmospheric data from European satellites, scientists have compiled a homogeneous long-term ozone record that allows them to monitor total ozone trends on a global scale - and the findings look promising. Scientists merged monthly total ozone data derived from the vertically downward-looking measurements of the GOME instrument on ESA's ERS-2 satellite ... more  
New York (AFP) Sept 21, 2009As world leaders gather for key climate talks here, small island nations Monday warned they were running out of time with rising seas threatening to wipe them off the map. Spread across the Earth's oceans, the planet's tiniest members grouped together in the Alliance of Small Islands States (AOSIS) are hoping to make their voices heard 100 days before UN-hosted climate talks in Copenhagen. ... more 
New Delhi (AFP) Sept 21, 2009A week of climate talks comes to a head in the upcoming G20 summit in Pittsburgh, where emerging powers will press rich nations for major funding to combat global warming and its impact. Negotiations ahead of the UN climate showdown in Copenhagen in December are at a critical stage and observers are looking desperately to the US gatherings to provide momentum. Efforts to build the ... more |
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United Nations (AFP) Sept 21, 2009UNAIDS signed a partnership deal with several non-governmental organizations here Monday to work to eliminate HIV mother-to-child transmission in Africa. The deal signed as world leaders gathered here for this week's UN General Assembly session, aims to accelerate action on HIV/AIDS and "correct the glaring inequality" faced by children in the face of the scourge, UNAIDS Executive Director ... more 
New York (AFP) Sept 21, 2009Chinese President Hu Jintao is set Tuesday to make an "ambitious" statement on global warming that would make Beijing the world leader in the race to seal a new treaty, the UN climate chief said. More than 120 world leaders are converging at the United Nations on Tuesday for a special summit that takes place some 100 days ahead of a meeting in Copenhagen that is meant to approve a successor ... more 
Hong Kong (AFP) Sept 21, 2009The head of the World Health Organization said Monday the swine flu virus had apparently not yet mutated into a more serious disease, but she is concerned about poorer nations' access to vaccines. The number of swine flu cases is expected to rise as the Northern Hemisphere moves into winter, WHO Director-General Margaret Chan said at the opening ceremony of the organisation's annual Western ... more |
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