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Indonesian girl reunited with parents after 2004 tsunamiBanda Aceh, Indonesia (AFP) Dec 23, 2011 An Indonesian girl separated from her family during the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami has been reunited with her family after seven years as a street child, her parents said Friday. Mary Yuranda, now 14, showed up at a cafe in the city of Meulaboh, a city in Aceh province, looking for her parents. According to her father Tarmius, she told her parents she had finally been let go by a woman who had taken her in and forced her to work as a street beggar. A taxi driver helped her return home on Wedn ... read more |
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  Season's greetings from the other extreme It is summer in Antarctica and the new crew for the Concordia research station will soon arrive. And since the place is second only to space for harsh conditions, they have been trained courtesy of ... more | .. |
 Tanzanian deluge kills 23 The Tanzanian economic capital Dar es Salaam's heaviest rainfall in more than half a century has caused at least 23 deaths and displaced 5,000 people, officials said Thursday. ... more | .. |
 Powerful quakes send terrified N. Zealanders fleeing New Zealand's Christchurch was Friday rocked by a fresh series of powerful earthquakes, sending terrified people fleeing into the streets 10 months after a devastating quake claimed 181 lives. ... more | .. |
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  Nicaragua files proceedings against Costa Rica with UN court Nicaragua on Thursday filed proceedings with the UN's highest court against Costa Rica over a road near their disputed border Managua says is causing serious environmental damage, the court said Thursday. ... more | .. |
  No-snow winter puts Finnish 'snow-how' on ice Helsinki's streets are festive with vibrant Christmas decorations and bright advertisements tout the season's must-have gifts as shoppers bustle through packed stores, yet something is amiss: there's no snow. ... more | .. |
  More help arrives for Philippine flood victims Philippines authorities on Friday doubled the number of dead and missing in deadly floods to more than 2,000, as relief groups rushed in aid for desperate survivors. ... more | .. |
 Room at the inn for Fukushima believers Christmas for one homeless pastor and his itinerant flock, forced to flee when Japan's nuclear crisis erupted, will have echoes of its origins this year as they gather in a shelter far from home. ... more |
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US seeks deals for Alaska energy as Asia representatives visit
Czechs sign nuclear deal with S.Korea firm KHNP: PM
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  Chinese activist jailed for nine years: lawyers Veteran Chinese rights activist Chen Wei was sentenced Friday to nine years in jail for "subversion", his lawyers said, in one of the harshest penalties handed down in a crackdown launched this year. ... more | .. |
 Vietnam's Falungong under pressure In silent meditation, the Falungong members did not flinch when a shirtless, tattooed man slapped them on the head, or when a burly female security agent dragged a dried palm leaf across their faces. ... more | .. |
  Southampton researchers help to outline world's land and water resources for food and agriculture Researchers from the University of Southampton have contributed to a major international United Nation's (UN) report into the current status of the world's land and water resources for food and agri ... more | .. |
  Human skull study causes evolutionary headache Scientists studying a unique collection of human skulls have shown that changes to the skull shape thought to have occurred independently through separate evolutionary events may have actually preci ... more |
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 Using new technology to record Antarctic Ocean, ice temperatures Half-mile long thermometers have been dropped through the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica that will give the world relevant data on sea and ice temperatures for tracking climate change and its effect o ... more | .. |
  GOES-15 ready to begin broadcasting and improving forecasting and natural disaster predictions The new generation of weather and environmental satellites, GOES-15, officially became operational as GOES-West on Dec. 13, 2011. As a result, communities across the Western United States and Pacifi ... more | .. |
  Outside View: Obama on Syria Nearly half a century ago, Bob Dylan wrote a protest song entitled "Blowin' in the Wind." The song proffered questions about peace, war and freedom. Among the lyrics, Dylan posed the following inquiry of man: ... more | .. |
 China extends microblog rules to south: report China is extending rules requiring microblog users to register under their real names to Guangdong, state media said Thursday, after a spate of violent protests in the southern province. ... more |
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Ukraine war 'existential', Russia says, launching revenge strikes
'Aces up the sleeve': Ukraine drone attacks in Russia shake up conflict
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  Kenya seizes giant haul of smuggled ivory Kenyan authorities seized 727 pieces of ivory in a container at the main port of Mombasa in one of the largest hauls of tusks in recent years, officials said Thursday. ... more | .. |
 Beijing urges 'civilised' policing after protests China's security chief has urged authorities to resolve conflicts swiftly and enforce the law in a "civilised" way after an upsurge in violent protests in the southern province of Guangdong. ... more | .. |
 Chinese scientist gets 7 years for stealing US secrets A Chinese scientist on Wednesday was sentenced to more than seven years in prison for stealing trade secrets of major US agribusiness firms to benefit China. ... more | .. |
  Controversial 'bird flu' edits move ahead Top US scientists on Wednesday defended their bid to stop details of a mutant bird flu virus from being published and called for global cooperation to ward off an uncontrollable pandemic. ... more |
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  Bongo party wins landslide in Gabon vote: official President Ali Bongo's party scored a landslide victory in Gabon's parliamentary elections but turnout was low given an opposition boycott, it was announced Wednesday. ... more | .. |
 Close Family Ties Keep Microbial Cheaters in Check Any multicellular animal, from a blue whale to a human being, poses a special challenge for evolution. Most of the cells in its body will die without reproducing; only a privileged few will pass the ... more | .. |
 Will Antarctic worms warm to changing climate Researchers at the University of Delaware are examining tiny worms that inhabit the frigid sea off Antarctica to learn not only how these organisms adapt to the severe cold, but how they will surviv ... 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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  Climate sensitivity greater than previously believed Many of the particles in the atmosphere are produced by the natural world, and it is possible that plants have in recent decades reduced the effects of the greenhouse gases to which human activity h ... more | .. |
 Hellbender salamander study seeks answers for global amphibian decline A new study co-authored by University of Florida researchers on the endangered Ozark Hellbender giant salamander is the first to detail its skin microbes, the bacteria and fungi that defend against ... more | .. |
 Sensational bird finding in China In June 2011, a team of Chinese and Swedish researchers rediscovered the breeding area for the poorly known Blackthroat Luscinia obscura, in the Qinling mountains, Shaanxi province, north central Ch ... more | .. |
 US official says bird flu limits not 'censorship' Leading US health official Anthony Fauci on Wednesday rejected claims that the United States is censoring science by seeking to limit potentially dangerous bird flu information in major journals. ... more |
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 Scientists fight back in 'mutant flu' research row Leading virologists on Wednesday warned of censorship after a US bioterror watchdog asked scientific journals to withhold details of lab work that created a mutant strain of killer flu. ... more | .. |
 China to release six pandas into wild Six captive-bred pandas will be freed into an enclosed forest in southwestern China next year in the first mass release of the highly endangered animals, the official Xinhua news agency said Wednesday. ... more | .. |
 Fukushima reactors may take 40 years to dismantle Japan said Wednesday that decommissioning the tsunami-wrecked reactors at Fukushima could take as long as 40 years, with melted nuclear fuel possibly stuck where it is for a quarter of a century. ... more | .. |
 More Canadian farmers going high-tech More and more Canadian farmers are adopting mobile technology to help them manage and improve their businesses, an industry group survey found. ... more |
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