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Sri Lanka storm kills 14, damages 1,500 homesColombo (AFP) Nov 26, 2011 Heavy rains and gale force winds have killed at least 14 people and left more than 30 fishermen mising in southern Sri Lanka, officials said Saturday. Disaster Management centre officials said a total of 14 people were confirmed dead while another 30 were reported missing after coastal areas were lashed by heavy winds on Friday. Officials said nearly 1,500 homes were damaged, with most of them losing their roofs. Sri Lanka depends on monsoon rains for irrigation and power generation, but the ... read more |
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  Italian navy aids ship freed from Somali pirates An Italian navy ship Saturday came to the aid of a merchant vessel released by Somali pirates after over seven months in captivity, with news reports saying a ransom was dropped from a small plane. ... more | .. |
  China penalizes 113 in tainted pork scandal China penalized 113 people, including 17 government employees, over a chemical tainted pork scandal, official state media reported on Saturday. ... more | .. |
  The shark, a predator turned prey Sharks may strike terror among swimmers at the beach but the predators are increasingly ending up as prey, served up in fish-and-chips shops, sparking concern among environmentalists. ... more | .. |
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  China official blames Tibetan lama for immolations A Chinese religious official has accused a high-ranking Tibetan Buddhist close to the Dalai Lama of using extremist teachings to push monks to set fire to themselves, state media reported Friday. ... more | .. |
Australia plans world's biggest marine protection zone Australia plans to establish the world's biggest marine protection zone to safeguard a huge swathe of the Coral Sea, a biodiversity hotspot brimming with life, the government said Friday. ... more | .. |
  Myanmar wants 'regular relationship' with US: top official Myanmar wants a "regular relationship" with the United States, a senior official in the army-dominated country said Friday, days before a historic visit by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. ... more | .. |
China govt under fire over new food bacteria rule China's state-run media and web users criticised the government Friday after it ruled that small amounts of a potentially lethal bacterium were permissible in frozen food. ... more |
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'No doubt' Canadian firm will be first to extract deep sea minerals: CEO
Tabletop particle blaster: How tiny nozzles and lasers could replace giant accelerators
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  Amnesty urges Brazil to probe Indian chief's killing Amnesty International on Friday called for an independent investigation into the killing of a Guarani Indian chief in Brazil's western state of Mato Grosso do Sul. ... more | .. |
  Faroe Islands hit by hurricane A hurricane packing winds of almost 200 kilometres (125 miles) an hour tore through the Faroe Islands overnight, causing major damage and evacuations but no deaths, police said Friday. ... more | .. |
 Thailand counts cost of monster floods A young couple scour a jobs board in the Thai city of Ayutthaya in a desperate hunt for work, more than a month after the factories where they worked were flooded. ... more | .. |
  Iceland says no to Chinese tycoon's land purchase: ministry Iceland on Friday denied a request by a Chinese property tycoon to purchase a large swathe of land in the northern part of the island for a tourist resort, Interior Minister Oegmundur Jonasson said. ... more |
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  Gambia's Jammeh headed for landslide poll win Gambia's long-serving President Yayha Jammeh headed for a landslide victory Friday in an election criticised by observers as flawed due to voter intimidation and state control of the media. ... more | .. |
French soldiers join hunt for hostages seized in Mali French soldiers joined Mali's army Friday in the hunt for two French geologists who were kidnapped by an armed gang this week. ... more | .. |
  S.Africa readies 2,500 police for UN climate talks South Africa will deploy 2,500 police officers to the UN climate talks starting in Durban next week, ready to stamp out any violent protests, the police minister warned on Friday. ... more | .. |
  Rare strain of AIDS virus moves beyond Cameroon: doctors A very rare strain of AIDS virus previously found only among a few people in Cameroon has most probably spread outside the West African country, according to a case reported by The Lancet on Friday. ... more |
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Iran FM warns Europe against 'strategic mistake' at IAEA; Iran obtained 'sensitive' Israeli intel
DOD is investigating Hegseth's staffers over Houthi-strikes chats
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  Australian bushfire ravages historic house Cooler weather helped firefighters Friday as they battled an unpredictable blaze which has destroyed at least 37 properties, including a historic house. ... more | .. |
 EBRD grants 123-million-euro loan for Croatia hydro station The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) granted Croatia on Friday a 123.2 million euro ($163 million) loan for the construction of a hydro-electric plant. ... more | .. |
 Water doesn't have to freeze until minus 55 Fahrenheit We drink water, bathe in it and we are made mostly of water, yet the common substance poses major mysteries. Now, University of Utah chemists may have solved one enigma by showing how cold water can ... more | .. |
  First-class views of the world below Images of some of our planet's most beautiful features can be seen from the comfort of your Air France aircraft thanks to satellites. Clouds can't obstruct these views: the crystal waters of t ... more |
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 Carbon mitigation strategy uses wood for buildings first, bioenergy second Proposals to remove the carbon dioxide caused by burning fossil fuel from the atmosphere include letting commercially managed forests grow longer between harvests or not cutting them at all. A ... more | .. |
  Lightning Sprites Are Out-of-This-World Only a few decades ago, scientists discovered the existence of "sprites" 30 to 55 miles above the surface of the Earth. They're offshoots of electric discharges caused by lightning storms, and a val ... more | .. |
  Human, artificial intelligence join forces to pinpoint fossil locations In 1991, a team led by Washington University in St. Louis paleoanthropologist Glenn Conroy, PhD, discovered the fossils of the first - and still the only - known pre-human ape ever found south of th ... more | .. |
 West coast log, lumber exports in first 9 months of 2011 surpass 2010 totals Log and lumber exports from Washington, Oregon, northern California, and Alaska in the first three quarters of 2011 already surpass the total exports of 2010 according to the U.S. Forest Service's P ... more |
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Trump-Musk showdown threatens US space plans
Japanese company aborts Moon mission after assumed crash-landing
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 Public Misperception About Scientific Agreement on Global Warming Undermines Policy Support People who believe there is a lot of disagreement among scientists about global warming tend to be less certain that global warming is happening and less supportive of climate policy, researchers at ... more | .. |
  Ozone From Rock Fracture Could Serve As Earthquake Early Warning Researchers the world over are seeking reliable ways to predict earthquakes, focusing on identifying seismic precursors that, if detected early enough, could serve as early warnings. New resea ... more | .. |
 Massive volcanoes, meteorite impacts delivered one-two death punch to dinosaurs A cosmic one-two punch of colossal volcanic eruptions and meteorite strikes likely caused the mass-extinction event at the end of the Cretaceous period that is famous for killing the dinosaurs 65 mi ... more | .. |
 Indra Enhances Imaging Of Spatial Mission For The Study Of Water On Earth Indra has finished the upgrade of the SMOS (Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity) data processing system installed at the European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC) located in Villafranca del Castillo (Madr ... more |
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 Earth's core deprived of oxygen The composition of the Earth's core remains a mystery. Scientists know that the liquid outer core consists mainly of iron, but it is believed that small amounts of some other elements are present as ... more | .. |
Study: Arctic ice melting 'unprecedented' Arctic sea ice has declined at an unprecedented rate during the past 50 years, a study in the British journal Nature said. ... more | .. |
EU urges emerging nations to commit to new climate deal The European Union's top climate diplomat, Connie Hedegaard, urged emerging economies Thursday to commit to a second Kyoto period at global climate talks kicking off next week in Durban, South Africa. ... more | .. |
 SSTL appoints Luis Gomes Director of EO and Science Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) has appointed Luis Gomes Business Unit Director of Earth Observation (EO) and Science. He is now responsible for the strategic direction at SSTL in these m ... more |
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