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Italian PM undeterred by mass protest over Lyon-Turin rail link ROME (AFP) Dec 08, 2005 Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Thursday stuck to his guns over the need to build a high-speed rail link between Turin in Italy and Lyon in France, despite escalating protests. Thousands march in protest at Lyon-Turin rail link ROME (AFP) Dec 08, 2005 Tens of thousands of demonstrators marched in protest at the construction of a high-speed rail link between Turin and Lyon Thursday, occupying the site of a planned Alpine tunnel in Italy's northwestern Susa Valley. China vows to minimize damage to Russia from toxic slick BEIJING (AFP) Dec 08, 2005 Chinese President Hu Jintao has vowed to "spare no effort" to minimize the damage from a chemical spill on Russia as Beijing mulled plans to build a temporary dam to stop the slick. |
Russians expect toxic slick to hit Siberian city on Dec 25 VLADIVOSTOK, Russia (AFP) Dec 08, 2005 A toxic chemical slick flowing down a major waterway in northeastern China is expected to reach the Siberian city of Khabarovsk on December 25, Russian authorities warned Thursday. China may build dam to stop toxic slick reaching Russian city BEIJING (AFP) Dec 08, 2005 China may build a temporary dam to try to stop a toxic slick that is flowing down a major river in the northeast of the country from reaching a Russian city, a Chinese official and state media said Thursday. Storage of spent nuclear fuel from Australia illegal: French court PARIS (AFP) Dec 08, 2005 France's top appeals court has ruled that a state firm's storage of spent nuclear fuel from Australia in the town of La Hague is illegal, in a decision which environmentalists claimed as a major victory. |
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China may build dam to stop toxic slick reaching Russian city: report BEIJING (AFP) Dec 08, 2005 China may build a temporary dam to try to stop a toxic slick that is flowing down a major river in the northeast of the country from reaching a Russian city, state press said Thursday. Two dead, more than 60,000 displaced by Philippine flooding MANILA (AFP) Dec 08, 2005 Two people have died and more than 60,000 people have been forced to evacuate after heavy rains caused massive flooding in three Philippine provinces, disaster relief officials said Thursday. US lacks friends as UN talks sketch deeper cuts in carbon pollution MONTREAL (AFP) Dec 08, 2005 Warnings about climate change mingled with barbs aimed at the United States here Wednesday as the world's environment ministers sketched positions on how to make deep cuts in perilous greenhouse-gas pollution. |
US loses ground at climate change talks MONTREAL (AFP) Dec 08, 2005 The United States found itself isolated Wednesday as other countries, including ally Australia, backed the early start of negotiations for deeper cuts in greenhouse gases, the fossil-fuel pollution blamed for global warming. China links with Russia to combat toxic benzene spill PRAGUE (AFP) Dec 08, 2005 China is cooperating with Russia to tackle a toxic benzene slick moving through northeastern China towards the Siberian city of Khabarovsk, Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao said on Wednesday. |
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