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France, Italy, Portugal answer Spanish appeal for help fighting fires
Brussels, Aug 9, 2006 France, Italy and Portugal answered a Spanish appeal Wednesday for help from its EU partners to put out blazes ravaging its western Galicia region, the European Commission said. France and Italy both dispatched two Canadair fire-fighting airplanes to Galicia while neighboring Portugal sent 20 vehicles and 65 forest firefighters hours after Spain asked the commission for assistance. More ... more Spain seeks EU help putting out fires
Brussels, Aug 9, 2006 The Spanish government has requested fire-fighting equipment from its EU partners to help put out blazes in the western Galicia region, the European Commission said Wednesday. Madrid sent the request to the commission early Wednesday seeking three Canadair fire-fighting airplanes, five helicopters equipped with special water buckets and 20 firetrucks, a spokesman for the EU executive said. more Nearly 40,000 flee erupting Philippines volcano
Legaspi, Philippines, Aug 9, 2006 Arson investigated as 110 fires blaze in northern Spain
Madrid, Aug 9, 2006 Some 110 fires were burning Wednesday in Galicia, northern Spain, an official said, as police investigated claims, including from the environment minister, that arsonists had been at work. Sixty-seven of the 110 fires were out of control, according to a local government spokeswoman who said firefighters had spent the night trying to prevent the flames from spreading to homes. There was n ... more Disputed water flows too late for Sri Lankan farmers
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Madrid, Aug 8, 2006 Hong Kong smog protest doesn't dim all the lights
Hong Kong, Aug 8, 2006 Fishmerman surprised with swordfish catch off English coast:
London, Aug 8, 2006 A fisherman looking for salmon off the northeast coast of England caught a large swordfish far away from its natural habitat in the Mediterranean, experts said Tuesday. Peter Dent spotted the six-foot (1.8 meter) fish weighing 58 pounds (26.3 kilograms) caught in his salmon net Monday as he fished less than a mile (1.6 kilometers) off the coast of Newbiggin-by-the-Sea, Northumberland. He ... more Fire erupts in Colombia's Los Nevados park
Bogota, Aug 8, 2006 A blaze has erupted in a coffee-growing region of Colombia's high-Andes Los Nevados national park, local officials said Tuesday. The fire -- the second in the park in less than a month -- broke out Sunday, fueled by high temperatures and winds in the area, officials said. The officials did not give any figures about the size of the affected area of the park, which is a key source of wate ... more Portuguese capital reports 18 extra deaths during July heatwave
Lisbon, Aug 8, 2006 The main hospital in the centre of the Portuguese capital recorded 18 extra deaths last month while the country was suffering from a heatwave, a hospital official said Tuesday. The Sao Jose hospital recorded 37 deaths between July 7 and 18, when the mercury soared above 30 degrees Celsius (86 degrees Fahrenheit) in Lisbon, compared to 19 deaths during the same time last year, the hospital's ... more |
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Paris, Aug 8, 2006 Almost half of all French districts are to ask for the right to compensate farmers for crops lost during a withering heatwave last month, the agriculture ministry said on Tuesday. Forty of the 96 departments in mainland France are to ask the government to declare them "agricultural disaster" zones, allowing them to release special financial aid for farmers. More than 100 people died in F ... more Philippine troops rush people off slopes of rumbling volcano
Legaspi, Philippines, Aug 8, 2006 Hong Kong prepares to dim lights in protest at rising pollution
Hong Kong, Aug 8, 2006 Environmentalists hope to shroud Hong Kong in darkness late Tuesday in a lights-out protest over rising pollution in the southern Chinese territory. As if to stress the point, grey smog blanketed the high-rise city as organisers made final appeals for citizens and corporations to switch off their lights for three minutes at 8:00pm (1200 GMT) to show their anger at worsening air quality. ... more Farmers refuse to leave slopes of rumbling Philippine volcano
Matanag, Philippines, Aug 8, 2006 New York heat wave kills 22: official
New York, Aug 7, 2006 A heat wave that scorched New York last week has killed 22 people and may claim additional lives, the office of the city's chief medical examiner said Monday. Ellen Borakove, spokeswoman for the medical examiner's office, said the deaths were recorded late last week and that the toll could rise since exposure to heat can have lasting effects. "It usually takes two or three days," Ellen B ... more
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