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Floods bring despair and devastation to storm-struck Haiti
L'Estere, Haiti (AFP) Sept 7, 2008Desperate, starving Haitians trudged through muddy water away from the flooded northern city of Gonaives Sunday, a grim echo of devastation four years ago from Hurricane Jeanne, in which 3,000 died. After a battering from three storms in as many weeks, Haiti's inhabitants despaired at a fourth, Hurricane Ike, which left some 47 dead after clipping the country's northern peninsula Sunday, the ... more China needs 245 bln dlrs to rebuild after quake: official media 
Beijing (AFP) Sept 8, 2008China has raised or allocated just one quarter of the 245 billion dollars needed to rebuild areas devastated by this year's devastating earthquake, state press said Monday. Southwest China's Sichuan province will need 1.67 trillion yuan (245.6 billion dollars) to fund reconstruction efforts following the May 12 quake, provincial vice governor Huang Xiaoxiang said, according to Xinhua news ... more 13 dead or missing in Philippines landslide: officials 
Maco, Philippines (AFP) Sept 6, 2008Six people were killed and at least seven others were missing after a landslide triggered by heavy rains buried houses in the southern Philippines, officials said Saturday. More than 100 residents whose homes were destroyed took refuge in a chapel, while one survivor said there could be many more missing in the town of Maco, in the Compostela Valley. District chairman Jovencio Anquera ... more Australian climate advisor urges 10 percent emissions cuts 
Sydney (AFP) Sept 5, 2008Australia's chief climate advisor Friday urged a 10 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 but conceded this may not save the country's natural assets such as the Great Barrier Reef. In an assessment of the targets required to manage the harmful effects of air pollution on climate, Professor Ross Garnaut said Australia should cut its emissions by 10 percent of 2000 levels by ... more Four pirate attacks in Gulf of Aden in three days: Danish navy 
Copenhagen (AFP) Sept 7, 2008In the past three days there have been four pirate attacks in the Gulf of Aden, and a Danish war ship has been involved in frightening off the assailants in two of the cases, the Danish navy said Sunday. "For the second time in a period of 72 hours, the Danish war ship Absalon has gone into action against pirates spreading terror in the Gulf of Aden," the navy said in a statement. ... more |
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London (UPI) Sep 5, 2008 Now the recession watch in Britain is getting really serious. Punch Taverns, the country's largest operator of pubs, a classic symbol of English life, has decided to scrap its dividend to shareholders after a drop in sales of more than 3 percent. The company blamed "challenging trading conditions." Alastair Darling, who as chancellor of the exchequer is the government minister in charge ... more UNICEF: Three million African children risk death and disease 
Nairobi (AFP) Sept 5, 2008Three million children in the Horn of Africa are at risk from death or disease as the effects of drought, conflict and rising food prices worsen, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said Friday. "Three million childen in this region are at risk of death, diseases or the long-term consequences of malnutrition. They compromise a large proportion of the more than 14 million people ... more Riot police quell two separate large protests in China 
Beijing (AFP) Sept 5, 2008China dispatched large numbers of soldiers and armed riot police to quell two major protests, officials and a rights group said Friday, in the latest public discontent to rock the communist nation. In central Hunan province Thursday, 5,000 soldiers and armed police converged on a furious crowd of up to 10,000 demanding money back from an alleged fundraising fraud, the Hong Kong-based ... more Pyrenees glaciers will melt by 2050: Spanish study 
Madrid (AFP) Sept 5, 2008Climate change will melt the 21 remaining glaciers in the Pyrenees mountains before 2050, a group of Spanish researchers said Friday. "The steady increase in temperature -- a total of 0.9 degrees Celsius from 1890 to today -- indicates that the Pyrenees glaciers will disappear before 2050, experts say," said a statement published on the SINC website, an official science news site. ... more New laws needed in changing polar regions: experts 
Reykjavik (AFP) Sept 7, 2008Some 40 legal experts from around the world gathered in Iceland on Sunday for a three-day conference aimed at staking out a new legal framework for the fragile and changing polar regions. "A new coordinated international set of rules to govern commercial and research activities in both of the Earth's polar regions is urgently needed to reflect new environmental realities and to temper ... more |
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Dakar (AFP) Sept 7, 2008A cholera epidemic which has claimed 90 lives to-date in Guinea Bissau, with more than 3,900 people suffering from the disease, is spreading but no new cases have been reported from neighbouring Guinea, the WHO said Sunday. "The cholera outbreak continues with 3,915 cases and 90 deaths reported as of 31 August" in Guinea Bissua, said a World Health Organization report seen by AFP. ... more Cheney blasts Russia's 'acts of war' against democracy 
Cernobbio, Italy (AFP) Sept 6, 2008Russia "fueled" internal strife in Georgia and committed "acts of war" against democracy, US Vice President Dick Cheney said Saturday. "Russian forces crossed an internationally recognized border, into a sovereign state, fueled and fomented an internal conflict, conducted acts of war without regard for innocent life, killing civilians and causing the displacement of tens of thousands," ... more Bangladesh seeks billions to fight climate change 
Dhaka (AFP) Sept 7, 2008Bangladesh wants rich nations to pay the billions of dollars it says it needs to help fight the effects of climate change because they are the biggest environmental culprits. The impoverished South Asian nation -- one of the world's lowest emitters of greenhouse gases -- will highlight its plight to the British government and other international donors in London on September 10. ... more Bangladesh climate victims search for new land 
Kutubdiapara, Bangladesh (AFP) Sept 7, 2008Jafar Alam hammers a nail into a rickety wooden boat, repairing the vessel that will help his family earn a living. Although the fisherman depends on the ocean for his livelihood, he has mixed feelings about the water after rising sea levels drowned his plot of land on Kutubdia Island on Bangladesh's southern coast 22 years ago. "Back then this area was barren and we were among the first ... more Armed police end Greenpeace timber export ship protest 
Port Moresby (AFP) Sept 6, 2008Armed police have removed four activists from a timber cargo ship on the South Pacific island of Papua New Guinea, ending a three-day protest against logging, environmentalists said Saturday. "Armed police have escorted Greenpeace activists off a logging cargo ship on Papua New Guinea's Aiai River at Paia," Greenpeace Australia said in a statement. "The activists were harnessed to the ship ... more
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