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APEC leaders set to discuss China food safety
Sydney (AFP) Sept 3, 2007Asia Pacific leaders will discuss food safety at a summit in Sydney this week following a spate of recalls and concerns over Chinese food products, an Australian official said Monday. The issue has already been discussed by officials thrashing out the agenda for leaders of the 21-member Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum and will be taken higher up, said David Spencer, Australia's ambas ... more Indonesia proposes rainforest nations climate group 
Jakarta (AFP) Sept 1, 2007Indonesia has proposed that eight countries home to some 80 percent of the world's tropical rainforests join diplomatic ranks amid rising climate change concerns, a senior official said Saturday. "This is the initiative of our president, in order that they be able to play an important role in the diplomacy of global warming," the spokesman for President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono told AFP. ... more Pollution stunts Canada's beluga whales 
Saint Lawrence River, Canada (AFP) Sept 2, 2007The beluga whales make a shrill sound as they stick their noses out of the water, watched by conservationist Michel Moisan. They are a rare sight this far south -- and the chemicals washing into their river are keeping them that way. Most beluga are found in the Arctic, but a rare pocket survives -- just -- here where the river Saguenay river meets the Saint Lawrence some 500 kilometers ... more Pig disease spreads through China 
Beijing (AFP) Sept 2, 2007A mysterious disease affecting China's pork-raising industry has spread, and officials have ramped up vaccine output to cope with a "grim" situation, state media reported. More than 257,000 pigs had been infected with the epidemic, known as blue-eared pig disease, by late August, with 68,000 of them dying, official Xinhua news agency said late Saturday. Experts quoted in the Western medi ... more Greek fire toll rises to 64 as PM urges revamp 
Athens (AFP) Sept 2, 2007Firefighters in Greece on Sunday were bringing most of the blazes that have devastated the country under control, while the death toll from the tragedy climbed to at least 64. Greece's embattled Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis called for an overhaul of the state machinery in response to this summer's fires. "The lessons from the last few days of the crisis reinforce my belief in the nee ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) Sept 1, 2007China Saturday launched a nationwide energy saving campaign, calling on its people to face the urgent task of reducing its rocketing fuel consumption and worsening pollution. Vice Premier Zeng Peiyan said China had paid a heavy price for its rapid economic development in the past three decades. "Our country has taken nearly 30 years to catch up with developed countries in industrialisati ... more Analysis: Kazakhs mull nationalization? 
Washington (UPI) Aug 31, 2007 The year 2007 has been a difficult one for Western energy companies operating abroad, as many states, including Bolivia, Russia and Venezuela, have unilaterally either rewritten or abrogated longstanding energy agreements with European and U.S. partners. Is Kazakhstan about to join the revisionist club? On Aug. 27 the Kazakh government temporarily suspended Italian Eni SpA's license to ... more Analysis: New force to protect Saudi oil 
Washington (UPI) Aug 31, 2007 A new oil facilities protection force in Saudi Arabia faces a convinced enemy with a record of attacks on the country, but analysts say it is just another layer of protection on a security apparatus that has so far succeeded in protecting the country's most important resource. Saudi Arabia plans to create a special oil facility protection force by year's end that will number 20,000 and ... more Analysis: Iran seeks oil swaps 
Washington (UPI) Aug 31, 2007 Since the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, the race to bring Caspian oil to the global market has been marked by a three-way race involving Russia, the United States and Iran. Five nations now share the Caspian's coastline - Azerbaijan, Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Iran. Russia initially won the race to exploit Kazakh and Turkmen energy assets, while Azerbaijan, first with th ... more India must not 'miss the bus' on nuclear energy: PM 
Tarapur, India (AFP) Aug 31, 2007India cannot afford to lag behind developed nations in nuclear energy, the country's prime minister said Friday as he battled opposition from communist allies to an atomic deal with the US. "There is today talk the would over of a nuclear renaissance. We cannot afford to miss the bus or lag behind these global developments," Manmohan Singh said during a visit to nuclear energy installations ... more |
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Parsippany NJ (SPX) Aug 31, 2007DRS Technologies has announced that it received a $250 million contract, including options, from the U.S. Navy's Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center (SPAWAR) Charleston in South Carolina. In support of this single-award, Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract DRS will provide a satellite-based internet-broadband service and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) network to ... more Discovery Could Help Stop Malaria At Its Source - The Mosquito 
Troy NY (SPX) Aug 30, 2007As summer temperatures cool in the United States, fewer mosquitoes whir around our tiki torches. But mosquitoes swarming around nearly 40 percent of the world's population will continue to spread a deadly parasitic disease - malaria. Now an interdisciplinary team led by researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has found a key link that causes malarial infection in both humans and ... more Norway: Noah's Ark of seed samples tucked into Arctic mountainside 
Longyearbyen, Norway (AFP) Aug 30, 2007Carved into the permafrost of a remote Arctic mountain, a "doomsday vault" housing samples of the world's most important seeds is taking shape to provide mankind with a Noah's Ark of food in the event of a global catastrophe. At the end of a narrow gravel road in Norway's Arctic archipelago of Svalbard where, ironically, no crops grow, construction workers are toiling away on the ... more Mediterranean countries feel the force of deadly forest fires 
Athens (AFP) Aug 30, 2007While Greece edged closer to mastering forest fires that have killed more than 63 people, other countries on the Mediterranean and the Adriatic struggled with deadly woodland blazes Thursday. In Algeria, forest fires fed by winds off the Sahara and still burning out of control in the north of the country had claimed eight lives in the past 48 hours, said the country's civil protection ... more Global warming will bring stronger storms and tornadoes 
Washington (AFP) Aug 30, 2007Violent storms and tornadoes may become more common as the earth's climate warms, a study by NASA scientists showed Thursday. Researchers at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies developed what they say is the first climate model able to estimate how the strength of storms changes as the atmosphere warms. The researchers applied global computer models -- which evaluate when ... more
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