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UN aid chief wants more access to Ethiopia's conflict zone
Kebri Dehar, Ethiopia (AFP) Sept 2, 2008UN humanitarian chief John Holmes on Tuesday urged Ethiopia to grant aid groups access to conflict zones in the southern Ogaden region where the army is battling a rebel group. Ethiopian military launched a crackdown last year on the region after the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) attacked a Chinese-run oil venture, killing 77 people. Aid workers say the military operation has ... more Taiwan hopes to import water from China 
Taipei (AFP) Sept 2, 2008Taiwan has put forward a plan to import water from China for residents on a heavily-defended island group off the mainland, authorities said Tuesday, in a fresh sign of improving relations. The Water Resources Agency wants to set up pipes linking China's southeast Fujian province to the Taiwan-controlled Kinmen group, the agency said. It said construction -- pending final approval from ... more Philippines official facing charges for cutting trees 
Manila (AFP) Sept 2, 2008A Philippines national park official could face jail time for overseeing the removal of decades-old trees from a historic site in Manila, the country's environment department said Tuesday. The government agency said it was "saddened" and "horrified" by the cutting of 29 trees, including nine mahogany and rosewood trees, at the Roma park in front of Manila's cathedral. The park is part of ... more Norway's whalers defend tradition amid shrinking markets 
Svolvaer, Norway (AFP) Sept 2, 2008In the Lofoten Islands, the main base for Norway's whaling industry, hunters insist that their tradition has a future despite decades of criticism -- and reject claims that consumers aren't buying whale meat. In this cluster of islands nestled within the Arctic circle, the whalers have all returned to their home ports, this year's hunting season having ended on August 31. Their vessels are ... more US monitors new storms after Gustav hits Gulf coast 
Miami (AFP) Sept 2, 2008US officials were keeping a close eye Tuesday on three tropical storms posing potential threats after deadly Hurricane Gustav battered the US Gulf Coast. A forecaster with the National Hurricane Center called the clutch of three storms marching across the Atlantic at one time "not particularly unusual." "We are at the peak of hurricane season," Jessica Schauer Clark told AFP, as the ... more |
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New Orleans, Louisiana (AFP) Sept 2, 2008Emergency workers hustled on Tuesday to revive a hurricane-battered New Orleans area nearly devoid of power and people, as evacuees waiting in far-away shelters clamored to return home. Police blockaded main routes into town as residents tried to get back to their homes and shops, one day after Hurricane Gustav crashed into Louisiana. Hospital workers, non-critical city employees and ... more Mass exodus from Indian 'river of sorrow' 
Madhepura, India (AFP) Sept 2, 2008Distraught and destitute, countless numbers of poor Indian villagers are slowly wading out of their flood-hit region in a desperate search for food and drinking water. Huge swathes of the already impoverished state of Bihar are under water after a major river breached flood defences in neighbouring Nepal, changing course and washing away villages, crops, livestock and people. Survivors a ... more Hanna floods Haitain city where 3,000 died four years ago 
Port-Au-Prince (AFP) Sept 2, 2008Ten people were killed as Tropical Storm Hanna socked the north of Haiti Tuesday and officials called for help amid fears of a disaster like the one Tropical Storm Jeanne sparked four years ago. Haiti was still reeling after Hurricane Gustav killed 77 people and left eight others missing after barreling by the south of the hemisphere's most impoverished country only a week ago. ... more Grim prospects for Australian river system as drought bites:official 
Sydney (AFP) Sept 2, 2008Rivers in Australia's most important farming region are in critical condition thanks to the long-running drought, with no sign of an end to the 'big dry,' officials said Tuesday. The Murray-Darling Basin Commission, which monitors the east coast region that accounts for some 40 percent of the nation's farming production, said the level of water entering the Murray River was at a record low. ... more Disease fears for flood-devastated India, Nepal 
Saharsa, India (AFP) Sept 2, 2008Hundreds of thousands of flood victims huddled into makeshift camps in India and Nepal face major disease outbreaks if help fails to reach them quickly, aid workers warned Tuesday. They said several camps in India's northern Bihar state and across the border in Nepal, areas devastated when a monsoon-swollen river burst its banks and changed course, were already reporting cases of diarrhoea a ... more |
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Sydney (AFP) Sept 2, 2008Any decision by Australia to scrap a deal to sell uranium to Russia to protest its action in Georgia would be "politically biased" and economically harmful, Moscow's envoy to Canberra has reportedly warned. Fairfax newspapers on Tuesday quoted Ambassador Alexander Blokhin, as issuing the caution a day after Australia's foreign minister said Canberra was reconsidering whether to ratify a 2007 ... more Hurricane threat to Gulf energy hub rattles US economy 
Washington (AFP) Sept 1, 2008With the US oil-refining industry heavily concentrated along the northern Gulf of Mexico coastline, a strategic sector of the economy is perennially vulnerable to the threat of hurricanes. Hurricane Gustav, which swept ashore at around midday southwest of New Orleans, will result in up to 10 billion dollars (8.22 billion euros) in insured losses and a long-term five percent cut to oil and ... more Hunt Energy Drill Rig En Route To Tasmania In Search For Oil, Gas And Helium 
Leawood KS (SPX) Sep 03, 2008Empire Energy has announced that, having just completed the drilling of an oil and gas well at Sealake, Victoria, the Hunt Energy Rig Number 3 has arrived at the Melbourne docks and is being washed down prior to quarantine inspection. Assuming quarantine approval, it is expected that all 32 semi-trailer loads of equipment (including the rig) should be shipped to Tasmania next week. Extra ... more Leopard Project Moves Pipes Aside 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Sep 03, 2008Southern Primorye Territory is to host a guarded nature reserve for 30 Amur leopards (P. pardus orientalis), the world's rarest big cats. To this end, the route of the Eastern Siberia - Pacific Ocean (ESPO) oil pipeline will be altered, costing its builders another $3 billion. But there is one more facility jeopardizing the leopard project - a gas pipeline, which is planned to be laid across the ... more Joint Venture To Deploy Next Gen Compressed Air Energy Storage Plants 
Newark, NJ (SPX) Sep 03, 2008PSEG Global and energy storage pioneer Dr. Michael Nakhamkin has announced they have formed Energy Storage and Power; a joint venture to exclusively market, license, support the development and supervise project execution of the second generation of Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES) technology. CAES technology stores off-peak energy, in the form of compressed air in an underground ... more
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