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French commandos free hostages from Somali pirates
Paris (AFP) Sept 16, 2008French commandos freed a couple seized by pirates off Somalia in the second such mission this year, leading President Nicolas Sarkozy to call Tuesday for an international crackdown on sea raiders. The special forces operation, ordered by Sarkozy late Monday, came as officials said heavily-armed pirates had attacked a Hong Kong-registered chemical tanker in the Gulf of Aden, taking its crew ... more US Gives Green Light To Food Sales To Hurricane-Hit Cuba 
Havana (AFP) Sep 17, 2008Bypassing its trade embargo on communist Cuba, the United States on Tuesday announced approving 250 million dollars in "farm sales" to Havana after Hurricanes Gustav and Ike devastated Cuba's crops. The licenses for agricultural sales, which include food and construction materials, were approved after Ike lashed Cuba a week ago and "wood, a material essential to rebuilding, is included," ... more UN welcomes EU piracy plan for Somalia but calls for navy back up 
Brussels (AFP) Sept 16, 2008The UN World Food Programme welcomed Tuesday an EU initiative to help combat piracy off the cost of Somalia, but appealed for a naval escort to help get aid to the strife-torn Horn of Africa country. On Monday, European Union foreign ministers had agreed to set up a "coordination unit" to help tackle the growing problem but they are only mulling whether to set up naval mission in future. ... more Taiwan typhoon death toll rises to 11 
Taipei (AFP) Sept 16, 2008Rescuers on Tuesday continued search operations after Typhoon Sinlaku pounded Taiwan over the weekend, leaving at least 11 people dead, officials said. Another 11 people remained missing in central Taiwan, where floods and mudslides triggered by up to 160 centimetres (62 inches) of rain caused bridges, hotels and houses to collapse, the National Fire Agency said. At least 20 people were ... more Residents of flattened Texan towns told to stay away 
Houston, Texas (AFP) Sept 16, 2008Officials in Texas coastal communities flattened by Hurricane Ike begged residents to stay away Tuesday, insisting that it may be months before the area has basic services like clean water. Galveston County administrator Jim Yarbrough said he would resort to "whatever means necessary" to remove some 200 to 300 people still hunkered down on Bolivar Peninsula, a strip of land all but swept ... more |
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Geneva (AFP) Sept 16, 2008The ozone hole is larger in 2008 than the previous year but is not expected to reach the size seen two years ago, the World Meteorological Organisation said Tuesday. "In 2008, the ozone hole appeared relatively late. However, during the last couple of weeks it has grown rapidly and has now passed the maximum size attained in 2007," the WMO said in a statement. The hole in the layer over ... more Norway donates up to one billion dollars to save Brazil rain forest 
Brasilia (AFP) Sept 16, 2008Norway's Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg announced Tuesday that Oslo will donate up to a billion dollars to a government fund here devoted to rescuing the Amazon rain forest. "The government of Norway has decided to contribute as much as a billion dollars to the Amazon Fund," Stoltenberg said, adding that the first tranche of funds would be disbursed to Brasilia before the end of the year. ... more New Spin On Ocean's Influence On Climate 
Sydney NSW (SPX) Sep 17, 2008New studies of the Southern Ocean are revealing previously unknown features of giant spinning eddies that have a profound influence on marine life and on the world's climate. These massive swirling structures - the largest are known as gyres - can be thousands of kilometres across and can extend down as deep as 500 metres or more, a research team led by a UNSW mathematician, Dr Gary ... more Myanmar seeks seeds, fertiliser after Cyclone Nargis: IRRI 
Manila (AFP) Sept 16, 2008Myanmar has sought foreign help for seeds and fertiliser to revive its key rice-growing region after a deadly cyclone earlier this year, the International Rice Research Institute said Tuesday. Cyclone Nargis left an estimated 140,000 people dead or missing when it swept through the Irrawaddy delta in May. The disaster has slashed Myanmar's food crop output by six percent or 1.2 million ... more Ice Core Studies Confirm Accuracy Of Climate Models 
Corvallis OR (SPX) Sep 17, 2008An analysis has been completed of the global carbon cycle and climate for a 70,000 year period in the most recent Ice Age, showing a remarkable correlation between carbon dioxide levels and surprisingly abrupt changes in climate. The findings, to be published this week in the online edition of the journal Science, shed further light on the fluctuations in greenhouse gases and climate in ... more |
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Washington (UPI) Sep 16, 2008 Six years ago the $40 billion Enron debacle was seen as the tsunami of modern corruption scandals. But that was just a ripple in a sordid line of sleights of hand, insider trading, disinformation, financial losses disguised as profits and predatory lending, all leading to a steady decline into bandit capitalism. On the heels of Enron came Tyco International, Adelphia, Peregrine Systems ... more Bangladesh permits dismantling of 'toxic' ship 
Dhaka, Bangladesh (AFP) Sept 16, 2008Bangladesh will allow a ship with allegedly hazardous substances to be dismantled on its shores, an official said Tuesday, a month after it was blacklisted. The government last month banned the New Atlantia after a Bangladeshi ship breaker imported it under the name of MT Enterprise. The New Atlantia was described by Greenpeace as hazardous in its global list of toxic ships. Shipping ... more Platform in China's largest offshore oil field starts operation: company 
Beijing (AFP) Sept 16, 2008A third platform in China's largest offshore oil field has come on stream, a leading Chinese oil producer said on Tuesday. Platform B is one of the five platforms in phase II of the Peng Lai 19-3 oil field, located in Bohai Bay in the north, said the China National Offshore Oil Company (CNOOC) in a statement on its website. Apart from the five platforms, the project also includes a centre ... more The Viability Of Hydrogen Transportation Markets: Chicken Or Egg 
Rochester NY (SPX) Sep 17, 2008Hydrogen may well be the new gasoline. But where's the nearest "gas" station where you can pull up and refuel your energy-efficient vehicle? Will hydrogen stations be strategically convenient-located on street corners and travel-stop locations around the globe? What marketing development obstacles need to be overcome if hydrogen vehicles are ever to penetrate the transportation system and ... more Iran boasts its forces can control the Gulf 
Tehran (AFP) Sept 16, 2008Iran has the power to control the Gulf as no vessel can cross the vital seaway without coming in range of its sophisticated weaponry, a top aide to supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Tuesday. The sabre-rattling comments from General Rahim Yahya Safavi came a day after the International Atomic Energy Agency accused Iran of stalling its investigation into the country's nuclear drive ... more
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