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Analysis: India mulls new probe agency
New Delhi (UPI) May 21, 2008 Worried over its failure to effectively stop the growing incidence of terror attacks, Maoist violence and white-collar crime, India is considering the establishment of a federal agency to investigate crimes having countrywide implications. Successive Indian governments, police, security and intelligence agencies have deliberated establishing a federal investigating agency but have faile ... more WHO rushes experts to quake-hit China 
Beijing (AFP) May 22, 2008The World Health Organisation said Thursday it was rushing experts, medical supplies and equipment to China amid increasing fears of disease outbreaks more than a week after the devastating earthquake. The medical supplies will help treat 130,000 people, the UN body said, while the equipment will help ensure clean drinking water and proper sanitation -- vital for controlling any outbreak. ... more Zimbabwe has not taken delivery of Chinese arms:minister 
Harare (AFP) May 22, 2008The Zimbabwe government Thursday denied taking delivery of a consignment of weapons from China after a ship carrying the arms was prevented from unloading its cargo. "The shipment did not dock and there has not been delivery (of the equipment) as yet," Defence Minister Sydney Sekeramayi told journalists in Harare. "The shipment is part of a routine equipment for our defence. Zimbabwe has ... more Burundi army attacks rebel position 
Bujumbura (AFP) May 22, 2008Burundi's army launched an offensive against rebel positions in the east of the country despite a resumption of ceasefire implementation talks with the insurgents, officials said Thursday. Troops attacked National Liberation Forces (FNL) rebels in Mbare and Gasarara, five kilometres (three miles) east of the capital Bujumbura, local administrator Maximilien Ngendakuriyo told AFP. ... more Nigerian president returns home after 46 soldiers killed in crash 
Abuja (AFP) May 22, 2008Forty-six soldiers have been killed in one of Nigeria's worst road accidents in recent years, the army said Thursday, prompting the country's president to return home early from a trip abroad. President Umaru Yar'Adua cut short his visit to Tanzania after a collision between a petrol tanker and an army convoy led to the deaths of the soldiers, who had just returned from an African Union peac ... more |
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Reston, Va. (UPI) May 22, 2008 If California were struck by an earthquake similar to the one that devastated China, 1,800 people would die, the U.S. Geological Survey said Thursday. Under the scenario, the injured would number 50,000, property damage would be in the $200 billion range, and effects on social and economic issues would be long-lasting, USGS scientists said in a news release issued from Reston, Va. ... more China makes global tent appeal, as quake death toll passes 50,000 
Mianyang, China (AFP) May 22, 2008China made an urgent global appeal Thursday for millions of tents to shelter destitute survivors of its worst earthquake in a generation, as the confirmed death toll shot up past 50,000. Ten days after the 8.0-magnitude earthquake, China was focusing on staving off disease in its overflowing tent cities as it tried to lift the spirits of the homeless with plans to bring the Olympic flame thr ... more More disaster awaits China's quake zone: official says 
Beijing (AFP) May 22, 2008Aftershocks, avalanches and flooding could bring more geological disasters to China's mountainous southwest following last week's devastating earthquake, a senior government official said Thursday. The 8.0-magnitude earthquake has increased risks along China's Dragon Gate seismic fault, a well-known geological landmark, Yun Xiaosu, vice head of the Ministry of Land and Resources, told report ... more Chinese banks offer 12-bln-dlr credit to quake-hit 
Shanghai (AFP) May 22, 2008Chinese banks have opened credit lines of 82.7 billion yuan (11.9 billion dollars) to earthquake-stricken southwestern Sichuan province, the banking regulatory agency said Thursday. Banks have already extended loans worth 6.5 billion yuan for relief and reconstruction to applicants in Sichuan, the China Banking Regulatory Commission said in a statement. More than 80,000 people were left ... more Water contamination fears after farmer pierces NATO pipeline 
Brussels (AFP) May 22, 2008Thousands of litres of aviation fuel could have contaminated ground water in Belgium, after a farmer pierced a NATO pipeline, authorities in southern Belgium said Thursday. Firefighters working overnight Wednesday siphoned up to 30-40 cubic metres of spilt fuel at Saint-Symphorien, near Mons. After staunching the flow, Belgian defence ministry specialists managing the NATO pipeline began ... more |
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Rome (AFP) May 22, 2008The Italian government said Thursday it would begin building nuclear power stations, reversing a 20-year ban in an initiative likely to spark strong resistance and take a long time to come to fruition. "During the term of this parliament, we will lay the first stone for the construction in our country of a group of new-generation nuclear power stations," Economic Development Minister Claudio ... more Norway's StatoilHydro to test first deepwater floating wind turbine 
Oslo (AFP) May 22, 2008Norwegian oil company StatoilHydro will build the world's first deepwater floating wind turbine next year off Norway's coast, it said on Thursday. Offshore wind turbines already exist in numerous places around the world but they have all been stationary turbines planted on the bottom of the seabed. StatoilHydro plans to attach the floating turbine to the top of a buoy, using technology s ... more New Italian rubbish measures leave EU doubtful 
Brussels (AFP) May 22, 2008The European Commission said Thursday that measures announced by the Italian government to tackle the rubbish crisis in the Naples area did not resolve the underlying "structural problems." "We hope very much that the measures that have been applied so far will solve the crisis at the moment," commission spokeswoman Barbara Helfferich told journalists in Brussels. "But the structural pro ... more Analysis: Farm bill hikes biofuels funding 
Washington (UPI) May 22, 2008 The farm bill passed last week by Congress, and promised a veto this week by President Bush, gives a big boost to the renewable fuels industry. The bill passed by high majorities, with a vote of 318-106 in the House and 85-15 in the Senate -- enough to override a veto if the majority of policymakers vote the same way again. Government subsidies and funding for the research and de ... more Analysis: Nigerian militants to guard oil 
The Nigerian government announced it intends to employ the very same militants often blamed for attacks on oil installations in the Niger Delta to guard the region's oil pipelines. In a surprising and certainly controversial move, defense officials said they would negotiate a possible protection agreement with militants. "We will engage them to police oil pipelines, but they mus ... more
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