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Beijing (AFP) Sept 2, 2011 - Three workers trapped in a mine in northeastern China since it flooded 10 days ago are unlikely to survive the disaster, the state Xinhua news agency said on Friday.
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Morteratsch, Switzerland (AFP) Sept 20, 2013 - The hour-long walk from the local railway station to the Morteratsch glacier is a winding trek through a valley littered with rocks that the retreating ice left behind.
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Tripoli (AFP) Sept 15, 2023 - Over a decade of bloody power battles in Libya have resulted in vital infrastructure falling into disrepair, culminating in the catastrophic death toll in Sunday's flood, politicians and analysts have said.
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Kinshasa (AFP) Sept 11, 2020 - At least 26 great apes illegally removed from the Democratic Republic of Congo have been seized in Zimbabwe, where four suspected traffickers have been arrested, authorities in both countries said Friday as they considered repatriating the primates.
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Toronto - Feb. 21, 2001 - Global climate change is having a direct impact on the Earth's sea level and a group of scientists led by two U of T geophysicists is providing the sea level fingerprints of polar ice sheet melting to prove it.
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Perpignan, France (AFP) Sept 23, 2020 - It's here, says the employee, quietly, at the vast Perpignan cemetery in southern France.
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Washington (AFP) Sept 21, 2011 - Low levels of radioactivity showed up in rainwater in northern California two weeks after the Japan nuclear disaster in March but soon returned to normal, said a US study out Wednesday.
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Altadena, United States (AFP) Sept 24, 2025 - The fires that tore through Los Angeles nine months ago didn't destroy Karen Girard's home. But the smoke left her walls, floors and furniture infused with a toxic cocktail.
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Paris (AFP) Sept 1, 2020 - Hundreds of litres of toxic wastewater have leaked into Paris' Seine River from a plant belonging to Franco-Swiss cement giant Lafarge-Holcim, local reports said, sparking outrage from French officials.
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Los Llanos De Aridane, Spain (AFP) Sept 21, 2021 - A vast river of molten lava from a Canary Islands volcano was edging towards the sea on Tuesday, destroying everything in its path and provoking fears it will generate clouds of toxic gases when it hits the water.
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Beijing (AFP) Sept 15, 2010 - China's coal-fired plants produce enough toxic ash to fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool every two and a half minutes, creating contaminants that travel far and wide, Greenpeace said Wednesday.
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Marrakesh, Morocco (AFP) Sept 10, 2023 - Marrakesh's ancient medina was nearly empty on Sunday after a deadly earthquake that hit Morocco, but it did not stop some tourists who told AFP they chose to stay on.
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Marigot (AFP) Sept 6, 2017 - Officials in Florida's Key West and popular Caribbean tourist islands ordered people to evacuate on Tuesday as Irma, a potentially catastrophic Category Five hurricane, was set to make landfall.
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Puerto San Carlos, Mexico (AFP) Sept 1, 2009 - Hurricane Jimena sent tourists fleeing Tuesday as it bore down on Mexico's Baja California, while fishing communities on the sparsely populated peninsula toughed it out.
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Sembalun, Indo1nesia (AFP) Sept 28, 2016 - Hundreds of tourists have fled a volcanic eruption at a popular Indonesian hiking destination, an official said Wednesday, expressing fears some may have stayed behind to document the natural wonder.
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Sydney (AFP) Sept 29, 2009 - Tourists may have killed off a rare species of shrimp by relieving themselves on Australia's iconic Uluru, or Ayers Rock, a report said on Tuesday.
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