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House of Commons authorities ordered an "urgent" probe Monday after dozens of climate change protestors scaled the roof of the British parliament as lawmakers returned from their summer break. Twenty-three people were arrested and bailed by police after climbing up the landmark and unfurling a banner saying "Change the politics, save the climate". They want urgent action before ... read more 
Baguio, Philippines (AFP) Oct 12, 2009Rescue workers in the northern Philippines were on Monday trying to clear roads so that food, water and other supplies could reach survivors of landslides that killed nearly 300 people. The National Disaster Coordinating Council in Manila said over 50 road sections and nine major bridges had either been destroyed in the landslides or washed away by floods, making it difficult to reach ... more |
New research measures how much plastic is lethal for marine life
COP30 by the numbers One dead in northern Italy mudslide: firefighters EU defends carbon tax as ministers take over COP30 negotiations South Korea pledges to phase out coal plants at COP30 Record support in Norway for fossil fuel drilling: study EU defends carbon tax at COP30, urges quick adoption COP30 talks enter homestretch with UN warning against 'stonewalling' UN climate chief urges COP30 negotiators to not 'waste time on stonewalling' South Korea pledges to phase out coal plants 
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Geneva (AFP) Oct 12, 2009About 100 developing countries will receive international donations of swine flu vaccines, maybe as soon as November, a World Health Organisation official said Monday. "The director general of WHO will approve most likely today a list of countries for the donations," said Marie-Paule Kieny, who heads the WHO's vaccine research unit. "The list will include about 100 countries," she told ... more 
Seoul (AFP) Oct 12, 2009South Korea Monday proposed talks with North Korea on preventing flooding in a cross-border river after six people were drowned in the South last month, officials said. The proposal for talks on Wednesday was delivered through a cross-border hotline, the Unification Ministry said. "We sent our proposals to North Korea today calling for talks on the peaceful use of the river and ... more  
Beijing (AFP) Oct 12, 2009China sentenced six people to death on Monday over deadly July riots in its restive Xinjiang region, state media reported, delivering on a vow of harsh retribution over the ethnic unrest. The six were convicted of murder and other crimes by a court in the regional capital Urumqi in the first trials over the riots that killed nearly 200 people and left the city riven by ethnic tension. ... more |
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Washington (AFP) Oct 12, 2009Adolescents and relatively healthy adults are especially at risk from the swine flu, which is associated with respiratory failure and a high mortality rate in serious cases, studies said Monday. The studies, conducted during the first phase of infection between March 18 and June 1 in Mexico and April 16 through August 12 in Canada, also show how emergency services were sometimes submerged by ... more  
Beijing (AFP) Oct 13, 2009Three fishermen died as Tropical Storm Parma slammed into south China, causing torrential rain and high winds, state media said Tuesday. Rescuers discovered their bodies after Parma hit Hainan Province Monday, causing a boat to sink off the coast of Wanning city, according to the Xinhua news agency. Nine fishermen on the vessel fell overboard, Xinhua said, citing a spokesman for the ... more 
Miami (AFP) Oct 12, 2009Tropical Storm Patricia formed in the Pacific Monday and churned toward Mexico's Baja Peninsula, where local authorities announced plans to partially evacuate a beach resort as a precaution. The storm could lash the peninsula's southern end on Tuesday, and Mexican authorities have warned it could cause flooding and other damage, said the Miami-based National Hurricane Center (NHC). ... more |
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