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Deadly Hurricane Henriette blasts Mexican coast
Mexico City (AFP) Sept 4, 2007The leading edge of Hurricane Henriette, packing winds of 120 miles (193 kilometers) an hour, began lashing Mexico's Baja California Sur peninsula at 1636 GMT, the National Weather Service said Tuesday. Henriette's wrath was being felt after Hurricane Felix slammed ashore earlier Tuesday in Nicaragua at the topmost intensity on the Saffir-Simpson scale. ... more Protestors condemn govt over Greek fires 
Athens (AFP) Sept 4, 2007More than a thousand people demonstrated in Athens Tuesday against the government's management of Greece's deadly forest fires, hours after firefighters scrambled to put out the latest outbreak. The demonstration, 12 days ahead of legislative elections, was organised by the Greek Social Forum and the Confederation of Greek Workers (GSEE) against the conservative government of Prime Minister ... more Yale Scientists Use Nanotechnology To Fight E. Coli 
New Haven CN (SPX) Sep 05, 2007Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) can kill bacteria like the common pathogen E. coli by severely damaging their cell walls, according to a recent report from Yale researchers in the American Chemical Society (ACS) journal Langmuir. "We began the study out of concerns for the possible toxicity of nanotubes in aquatic environments and their presence in the food chain," said Menachem ... more MIT Unraveling Secrets Of Red Tide 
Cambridge MA (SPX) Sep 05, 2007In work that could one day help prevent millions of dollars in economic losses for seaside communities, MIT chemists have demonstrated how tiny marine organisms likely produce the red tide toxin that periodically shuts down U.S. beaches and shellfish beds. In the Aug. 31 cover story of Science, the MIT team describes an elegant method for synthesizing the lethal components of red tides. ... more Malaysia culls 50,000 pigs over smell, pollution 
Kuala Lumpur (AFP) Sept 4, 2007Malaysian authorities on Tuesday began slaughtering some 50,000 pigs in southern Malacca state, saying that the stench and pollution from unlicensed farms had become unbearable. Ismail Salleh, Malacca's state secretary, told AFP that the number of pigs in one state should not exceed 50,000, but that there were about 120,000 in Malacca, most raised on farms operating without licences. ... more |
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Moscow (RIA Novosti) Sep 05, 2007Russian Minister of Agriculture Alexei Gordeyev will discuss a possibility of creating an OPEC-like grain cartel with his colleagues from Australia in September. He said the United States is reviewing the idea, and somewhat earlier Ukraine and Kazakhstan accepted it as a rational suggestion. But agricultural experts are not too optimistic about the idea to control the production and trade in ... more Six groups shortlisted for Bulgarian nuclear plant partnership 
Milan (AFP) Sept 4, 2007Six companies have been shortlisted to take part in a joint venture to build a 7.0-billion-euro (9.5-billion-dollar) nuclear power plant in Bulgaria, Italian press reports said on Tuesday. Italian energy group Enel has been chosen as well as Electricite de France, the Belgian group Electrabel, Germany power groups EON and RWE, and CEZ of the Czech Republic, Il Corriere della Sera reported ... more The 5 Ws Of Corn Production 
Madison WI (SPX) Sep 05, 2007As of late, many uncertainties have been sprouting up in corn production. Researchers and producers have been wondering if precision agricultural technologies can improve crop yield and quality or reduce their variability. Farmers have been asking a number of questions from, which hybrid should I plant for best yield and quality, to does applying nitrogen fertilizer at a uniform rate produce a ... more Committee to review Indian left's objections to US nuke deal 
New Delhi (AFP) Sept 4, 2007India's foreign minister will head a committee set up by the Congress party-led government to review objections by communist allies to a controversial nuclear deal with the US, reports said Tuesday. The pact seeks to bring India into the loop of global atomic commerce after a gap of three decades, but the leftist parties, which oppose strategic ties with Washington, say the nuclear ... more Thousands without power as California sizzles 
Los Angeles (AFP) Sept 4, 2007Around 40,000 homes across California were without power Tuesday as searing temperatures roasted the region and drained the electricity grid, authorities said. Around 11,000 residents were still suffering from power outages across Los Angeles while a further 29,000 households were without electricity in the areas surrounding the metropolis, utility companies said. Los Angeles and parts ... more |
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Hong Kong (UPI) Aug 31, 2007 During the past seven to 10 years, China's rapid buildup of military power has tipped the balance in the Taiwan Strait strongly in its favor. Since 1999, when former Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui announced his "two states" theory -- daring to say that the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China are two different states, precipitating the PRC's aggressive stance against the ... more Britain, France must be included in weapons talks: Russian general 
Moscow (AFP) Sept 3, 2007Nuclear powers Britain and France must be included in any new efforts by Washington and Moscow to reduce stocks of tactical nuclear weapons, a Russian defence ministry official said on Monday. "We're ready to launch such negotiations with the United States but it must take place with the participation in the process of other countries, above all Britain and France," said General Vladimir ... more Russia's Putin, tycoons heading to Australia 
Sydney (AFP) Sept 3, 2007Russian President Vladimir Putin and his country's most prominent tycoons are set to fly to Australia on Friday amid speculation that Canberra is poised to sign a deal to sell uranium to Moscow. Media reports said a uranium deal could be signed Friday, when the Russian leader makes a one-day official visit before taking part in the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Conference (APEC) summit on ... more Russia draws 'red line' on Kosovo, US missile defence 
Moscow (AFP) Sept 3, 2007Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov underlined Russia's increasingly muscular foreign policy Monday, laying out a series of non-negotiable "red line" issues including Kosovo and US missile defence. "There are so-called 'red line' issues for Russia," Lavrov said in a speech to students at the Moscow State Institute for International Relations. "There we cannot fail to react and we must stick to ... more Honduras, Nicaragua brace for Hurricane Felix fury
Tegucigalpa (AFP) Sept 3, 2007Honduras and Nicaragua braced for the worst and evacuated thousands of people, including tourists, as powerful Hurricane Felix barreled toward the impoverished central American nations on Monday. National authorities and aid organizations readied for a potential disaster as the approaching storm rekindled memories of the devastation wrought in 1998 by Mitch, a massive storm and one of the de ... more
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