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People power shakes Arab dynastiesCairo (UPI) Jan 27, 2011 The sudden downfall of Tunisia's repressive regime Jan. 14 in an explosion of people power has triggered a similar, and potentially far more violent, eruption in Egypt, a phenomenon causing alarm among Arab rulers already grappling with succession crises. President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali's 23-year regime in Tunis was the first dictatorship in the Middle East to fall at the hands of its own people since Islamists overthrew Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran in 1979. There have also been ... read more |
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  Bulgaria sets first annual bear hunting quota Bulgaria's environment ministry set an annual brown bear hunting quota for the first time on Thursday, following a decades-long ban on killing the protected animals. ... more | .. |
  UN says Pakistan still in emergency after floods The United Nations Thursday said Pakistan is still in emergency mode six months after monsoon flooding ravaged the country and that $1 billion was still needed to help the 20 million people affected. ... more | .. |
  Airlines cancel Bali flights to avoid volcano ash Several international flights to and from the resort island of Bali were cancelled or diverted Thursday to avoid dangerous ash spewing from an Indonesian volcano, officials said. ... more | .. |
  EU takes aim at Sweden's wolf hunt The European Commission launched legal action against Sweden on Thursday for allowing hunters to shoot 20 wolves this year even though the species is threatened with extinction. ... more |
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  Concern at British plan to rent out forests Britain unveiled plans Thursday to rent out half of the state-owned national forests to raise an estimated �250 million ($400 million, 290-million euros), but conservation groups are worried. ... more | .. |
  Philippine crocodiles released to fight extinction Nineteen of the world's most critically endangered crocodiles were released Thursday into the wild in the Philippines as part of efforts to save the species from extinction, conservationists said. ... more | .. |
 Over 1,300 feared dead in Rio flooding More than two weeks after a deadly flooding disaster in a mountain range near Rio, officials said Thursday they fear the heavy rains have claimed a staggering 1,348 lives. ... more | .. |
  Ancient toolkit offers new clues to humans' journey An ancient toolkit unearthed in the United Arab Emirates suggests modern humans may have left Africa over 100,000 years ago, much earlier than typically thought, researchers said Thursday. ... more |
  
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  No hydropower from Iraq's Mosul dam: official Record low water levels at Iraq's largest hydroelectric dam have ground turbines there to a halt, amplifying a power shortage that led to riots last summer, a top official said on Thursday. ... more | .. |
  Tiananmen duo denounce exclusion from Hong Kong Two former leaders of the 1989 Tiananmen protests who were refused entry into Hong Kong this week said Thursday their exclusion exposed Beijing's strengthening grip on the autonomous territory. ... more | .. |
  French defence minister spells out Ivory Coast position French Defence Minister Alain Juppe backed Thursday tightening EU sanctions against holdout Ivory Coast president and said French forces in the west African country would help UN troops if asked. ... more | .. |
 Timber smuggling rife in Kashmir Smugglers are using political unrest in the Kashmir region of India to conceal their increasing operations in the black-market timber trade, officials said. ... more |
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 Call for halt to pesticides in bee deaths Pesticides implicated in widespread bee deaths should be discontinued in Britain pending scientific evidence about their effects, U.K. politicians were told. ... more | .. |
 Venezuela democracy row stirs debate Venezuela is in the grip of a furious debate over claims and counterclaims that it is a full-scale democracy, but with a difference, and not a country on the verge of economic and political meltdown. ... more | .. |
  Study alters Greenland glacier melt view Warm summer temperatures may not melt the Greenland ice sheet as fast as previously feared and may actually slow the flow of glaciers, British researchers say. ... more | .. |
ElBaradei returning to Egypt: family Egyptian opposition figure and former UN nuclear watchdog chief Mohamed ElBaradei is due to return to Egypt on Thursday, his family told AFP, amid the largest anti-government protests in three decades. ... more |
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Thai government, army deny coup claims The Thai government on Thursday denied opposition claims that it faces a military coup amid intensifying street protests and ahead of expected elections. ... more | .. |
 China White Rabbit sweets hop into Lunar New Year The makers of China's White Rabbit sweets - hit hard by a massive tainted milk scandal in 2008 - hope the beloved brand will make the leap into the 21st century in the coming Year of the Rabbit. ... more | .. |
  Off California coast, a bumper gray whale season At the Aquarium of the Pacific, Michele Sousa is excited: the annual gray whale migration is in full swing, and it's a bumper year to view the lumbering leviathans off the California coast. ... more | .. |
  Snowstorm cancels flights, slows Obama A massive snowstorm put a crimp in travel plans for thousands of US air passengers and drivers, not even sparing President Barack Obama, who faced travel delays upon returning Wednesday from a day trip to the US Midwest. ... more |
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 Australians face flood recovery tax Australia unveiled a flood tax on higher earners Thursday as Prime Minister Julia Gillard warned the deluge would shave 0.5 points off GDP in fiscal 2010 and cost Aus$5.6 billion for recovery. ... more | .. |
 New outcry over charges in China hit-and-run Chinese web users were up in arms Thursday over the trial of a man accused of attempting to exploit his father's senior police ranking to flee a fatal road accident, calling the charges too light. ... more | .. |
Chinese satirical cartoon blocked by government A grisly cartoon that marks the upcoming Year of the Rabbit by portraying a bunny revolt against brutal tiger overlords has proven an online hit, with its thinly veiled stab at China's communist rulers. ... more | .. |
  Bird flu spreads further in Japan Japanese health authorities on Thursday said a fifth outbreak of bird flu since November had hit a poultry farm in the central region of Aichi, as local officials began a cull of 150,000 chickens there. ... more |
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 Global Pacts Like REDD Ignore Primary Causes Of Destruction Of Forests A new study issued by some of the world's top experts on forest governance finds fault with a spate of international accords, and helps explain their failure to stop rampant destruction of the world ... more | .. |
  Man Has Been Provoking Climate Change For Thousands Of Years The Roman Conquest, the Black Death and the discovery of America - by modifying the nature of the forests - have had a significant impact on the environment. These are the findings of EPFL scientist ... more | .. |
 Human Ability To Throw Long Distances Aided By An Illusion Can't help molding some snow into a ball and hurling it or tossing a stone as far into a lake as you can? New research from Indiana University and the University of Wyoming shows how humans, unlike ... more | .. |
  The First Single-Fingered Dinosaur A new species of parrot-sized dinosaur, the first discovered with only one finger, has been unearthed in Inner Mongolia, China. Scientists named the new dinosaur Linhenykus monodactylus, after the n ... more |
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 Scientists Find That Debris On Certain Himalayan Glaciers May Prevent Melting A new scientific study shows that debris coverage - pebbles, rocks, and debris from surrounding mountains - may be a missing link in the understanding of the decline of glaciers. Debris is distinct ... more | .. |
 Dating Sheds New Light On Dawn Of The Dinosaurs Careful dating of new dinosaur fossils and volcanic ash around them by researchers from UC Davis and UC Berkeley casts doubt on the idea that dinosaurs appeared and opportunistically replaced other ... more | .. |
China PM meets petitioners as govt tamps down discontent Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has met with citizens complaining about unpaid wages, home demolitions and land grabs, state media said Wednesday - a rare move as Beijing tries to ease public discontent. ... more | .. |
 Orangutan DNA boosts survival chances: study Orangutans are far more genetically diverse than thought, a finding that could help their survival, say scientists delivering their first full DNA analysis of the critically-endangered ape. ... more |
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