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Global warming 55 million years ago shifted ocean currents PARIS (AFP) Jan 04, 2006 An extraordinary burst of global warming that occurred around 55 million years ago dramatically reversed Earth's pattern of ocean currents, a finding that strengthens modern-day concern about climate change, a study says. For first time, Greenland sets polar bear hunting quotas COPENHAGEN (AFP) Jan 04, 2006 Greenland has for the first time introduced hunting quotas on polar bears to protect the species threatened by global warming in the Arctic, but postponed plans to allow a limited tourist hunt, officials said Wednesday. German ice rink toll reaches 14, one more feared dead BAD REICHENHALL, Germany (AFP) Jan 04, 2006 Rescue workers on Wednesday pulled three more bodies out of the debris of a collapsed ice rink in the German Alps as police said they expected the final death toll to reach 15. |
Czech police launch probe into supermarket roof collapse PRAGUE (AFP) Jan 04, 2006 Czech police said Wednesday they had launched an investigation into possible negligence over the collapse of a supermarket roof under heavy snow in the eastern city of Ostrava that injured one person. Tears and disbelief as Indonesian landslide survivors gather SIJERUK, Indonesia (AFP) Jan 04, 2006 "Where are my children? Where are my children?" screamed Sumarah, a domestic worker from Indonesia's capital as she arrived back at her landslide-smashed village in Central Java. Thousands without power after snow blankets northeast Romania BUCHAREST, Jan 4 (AFP) Jan 04, 2006 Thousands of people in more than 100 towns and villages in northeastern Romania were without electricity Wednesday after a heavy snowstorm blanketed the Neamt and Bacau regions, state power company Electrica said. |
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Czech zoo announces birth of rare black rhino PRAGUE, Jan 4 (AFP) Jan 04, 2006 The Dvur Kralove zoo, in the north of the Czech Republic, on Wednesday announced the birth of a male black rhino, the 29th of the endangered species born since breeding began at the zoo in 1971. 14th body found in ice rink accident in Germany BAD REICHENHALL, Germany (AFP) Jan 04, 2006 Police said Wednesday they had found the body of a young girl in the wreckage of a collapsed ice rink in this southern German town, raising the death toll to 14, and were still searching for a missing woman. |
German ice rink toll reaches 13, two more feared dead BAD REICHENHALL, Germany (AFP) Jan 04, 2006 Police said Wednesday they believed 15 people had died when an ice rink roof collapsed in Germany, as rescuers found the bodies of two boys and hopes faded for two people still buried in the rubble. Pope sends condeolences over ice rink tragedy ROME (AFP) Jan 04, 2006 Pope Benedict XVI sent condolences over the deaths of 15 people thought to have been killed in the collapse of an ice rink in his native Bavaria, the Vatican said Wednesday. |
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