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Ash blankets town near Indonesian volcano
Blitar, Indonesia (AFP) Nov 5, 2007A thin layer of ash blanketed a town in the shadow of a simmering volcano in Indonesia's East Java on Monday causing panic, but it came from a second volcano kilometres away, officials said. The town of Blitar is located outside a 10-kilometre danger zone around the peak of Mount Kelut, where officials predict a powerful and potentially devastating eruption might occur at any time. Its r ... more Europe's forests flourishing, but fire remain a threat: study 
Warsaw (AFP) Nov 5, 2007Fires pose a major threat to Europe's woodlands, but the continent remains the world's only area where forest ecosystems are undergoing a revival, an international study said Monday. "Forest fires continue to be a major challenge," said the study by two United Nations agencies and an international forest body. "Hundreds of thousands of hectares of forest are burnt annually," the study sa ... more Ethiopia denies preparing for Eritrea war 
Addis Ababa (AFP) Nov 5, 2007Ethiopia on Monday dismissed Eritrean claims it was preparing for a new border war and accused its arch-enemy of seeking to divert attention from its internal woes. "Ethiopia opposes any provocative measure that leads to war and confrontation for it strongly believes that a border dispute can be settled only through diplomatic dialogue and peaceful means," said a foreign ministry statement. ... more Somali pirates release Taiwanese ship 
Nairobi (AFP) Nov 5, 2007Somali pirates on Monday released a Taiwanese fishing vessel that was in captivity for more than five months, a maritime official and the US Navy said. The Taiwanese-flagged vessel, Ching Fong Hwa 168, with two Taiwanese and 14 Chinese crew members was captured in mid-May off the coast of the troubled Horn of Africa country. "The information we have is that the pirates have released the ... more Anger rises in flood-stricken southern Mexico 
Villahermosa, Mexico (AFP) Nov 5, 2007Anger and despair rose Monday as victims of southern Mexico's disastrous floods, some perched on rooftops, complained of chaotic aid distribution and looting. Hundreds of people in Villahermosa, the capital of the flood-stricken state of Tabasco, refused to comply with orders to evacuate, fearing their homes or businesses could fall victim to looters, who have been using boats to gain access ... more |
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Tacoma WA (SPX) Nov 06, 2007More than 10 million members of the photo-sharing Web site Flickr snap pictures of their surroundings and then post those photos on the Internet. One group at the University of Washington is doing the reverse--downloading thousands of photos from Flickr and using them to recreate the original scenes. A presentation in October at the International Conference on Computer Vision showed how photos f ... more Computers Learn Art Appreciation 
Haifa, Israel (SPX) Nov 06, 2007A new mathematical program developed in the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Haifa will enable computers to "know" if the artwork you are looking at is a Leonardo da Vinci original, as the seller claims, or by another less well known artist. "The field of computer vision is very complex and multifaceted. We hope that our new development is another step forward in this field," ... more US Fires Release Large Amounts Of Carbon Dioxide 
Boulder CO (SPX) Nov 06, 2007Large-scale fires in a western or southeastern state can pump as much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere in a few weeks as the state's entire motor vehicle traffic does in a year, according to newly published research by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and the University of Colorado at Boulder. The paper, "Estimates of CO2 from fires in the United States: ... more Earliest Birds Acted More Like Turkeys Than Common Cuckoos 
St Lucia, Australia (SPX) Nov 06, 2007The earliest birds acted more like turkeys than common cuckoos, according to a new report in the November 6th issue of Current Biology, a publication of Cell Press. By comparing the claw curvatures of ancient and modern birds, the researchers provide new evidence that the evolutionary ancestors of birds primarily made their livings on the ground rather than in trees. "The claws of Mesozoic ... more Russian Tankers Heading For The Arctic 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Nov 06, 2007Sovcomflot and Novoship, Russia's largest shipping companies, have estimated their total worth at $3.37 billion. Experts think that after the companies' merger happening by the end of this year, the new mega-company may become the world's third largest shipping company according to its assets and the second largest in terms of gross tonnage. The decision to create a powerful shipping holdi ... more |
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Moscow (RIA Novosti) Nov 06, 2007The fact that German Lufthansa's Russia-based subsidiary has stopped using Russian air corridors for transit flights may aggravate tensions between Russia and the European Union. It is clear that we are in for a "transit war." Germany's air traffic regulator has issued a temporary ban for Aeroflot-Cargo's freight jets to land in the cargo hub near Frankfurt; this followed a hike in transit tarif ... more Deal On Oil Pipeline Leg To China Won't Be Reached In Moscow 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Nov 06, 2007A deal to build a leg of a major Russian oil pipeline to China will not be signed during Prime Minister Wen Jibao's visit to Moscow on Tuesday, a Russian government source said on Monday. In Moscow, the final destination in Jibao's tour of former Soviet states which comprised Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Belarus, the Chinese premier with meet with his Russian counterpart, Viktor Zubkov. Ru ... more Analysis: Chinese arms and African oil 
Hong Kong (UPI) Nov 5, 2007 China has been promoting arms-for-oil deals with Africa as the continent is becoming one of its major sources of oil. Since last year, top Chinese leaders and military officers have made frequent visits to Africa. And at the Zhuhai Air Show under way this week in southern China's Guangdong province, military delegations from African countries including Sudan, Angola and Zimbabwe have made freq ... more Iridium Reports Exceptional Growth Of Mobile Satellite Services In Military Sector 
Bethesda MD (SPX) Nov 05, 2007Iridium Satellite is pleased to announce that its military sector business continues to show outstanding growth with cumulative Department of Defense (DoD) subscribers reaching 31,000. Military traffic through Iridium's satellite network is up more than nine percent (an increase of almost ten percent over last year). This growth is 300 percent more than what Iridium planned for this market ... more Analysis: SCO military or economic pact? 
Washington (UPI) Nov 2, 2007 The Shanghai Cooperation Organization is holding a four-day meeting in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, starting Friday. While the summit will doubtless end with the usual flurry of statements emphasizing peace and prosperity for member states, the gathering will be most notable for what is absent from the declarations, a vision of what the grouping actually entails, particularly as regards energy export ... more
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