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Thousands of China milk sites closed: state media
Beijing (AFP) June 3, 2009
Over 3,900 substandard milk collection stations have been shut down in China following a contamination scandal last year that left at least six children dead, state media said Wednesday. Song Kungang, head of the China Dairy Industry Association, said authorities had inspected all the nation's 20,393 milk stations between November 2008 and April this year, the official Xinhua news agency ... read more

Swine flu cases infect 19,273 across world: WHO
Geneva (AFP) June 3, 2009
Swine flu has now spread to 66 countries with 19,273 people known to have been infected since the disease was first uncovered in April, data from the World Health Organisation showed Wednesday. The number of deaths rose to 117 after two more deaths were reported by the United States, according to the latest WHO tally of confirmed influenza A(H1N1) cases. Most of the new cases were report ... more

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US climate envoy to seek China commitment
Washington (AFP) June 3, 2009
The chief US climate negotiator said Wednesday he would go to China to press the rapidly growing economy to commit to hard numbers on emission reductions under the next treaty on global warming. In the midst of climate negotiations in Bonn, US climate envoy Todd Stern said he would head Saturday to Beijing in the belief that any future agreement must include strong action by China. Stern ... more

Spain's immigrant population hits 5.6 million
Madrid (AFP) June 3, 2009
The number of foreigners living in Spain rose by 329,929 last year to 5.6 million, with the largest numbers of new arrivals coming from Romania, Morocco and Britain, official data showed Wednesday. As of January 1 this year there were a total of 5,598,691 foreigners living in Spain, 40.5 percent of them from other European Union countries, the national statistics institute said. ... more

Segregation needed for gene crops in Europe: scientists
Paris (AFP) June 2, 2009
Genetically-engineered crops and conventional crops would have to be grown in segregated areas to meet environmental concerns about transgenic farming in Europe, agricultural scientists said on Tuesday. The so-called Co-Extra report, a four-year research project funded by the European Commission, aims at giving expert guidance into the controversy over engineered crops in the European Union ... more

160 Syrian villages deserted due to climate change: study
Damascus (AFP) June 3, 2009
Some 160 villages in northern Syria were deserted by their residents in 2007 and 2008 because of climate change, according to a study released on Tuesday. The report drawn up by the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) warns of potential armed conflict for control of water resources in the Middle East. "The 2007/8 drought caused significant hardship in rural areas ... more

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    Pro-independence party wins Greenland's election
    Copenhagen (AFP) June 3, 2009
    The pro-independence Inuit Ataqatigiit party won Greenland's parliamentary elections, just weeks before a new self-rule status goes into effect in the Danish semi-autonomous territory. The victory could speed up the island's efforts toward full independence, with the Inuit Ataqatigiit (Inuit Community, IA) pushing for a more aggressive stance than the ousted social democratic Siumut party ... more

    Pirates foiled, but cash missing from Maersk ship: US
    Washington (AFP) June 2, 2009
    The US military said on Tuesday it has opened an investigation into how cash went missing during the dramatic rescue of a US merchant captain taken hostage by Somali pirates. The Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) "is investigating allegations that funds went missing on board the Maersk Alabama," US Navy spokesman Commander Cappy Surette told AFP. He declined to offer more ... more

    Former Soviet bloc in firing line of climate change: World Bank
    Paris (AFP) June 2, 2009
    The countries of the former Soviet bloc face huge challenges in the next decade to avoid the worst ravages of climate change, the World Bank warned on Tuesday. From Poland to Kazakhstan, from the Arctic circle to the Caucasus, nations face the likelihood of more frequent floods, droughts, heatwaves, storms and forest fires, it said. But decrepit infrastructure and the legacies of Soviet ... more

    Swine flu: French doctor urges masks for Obama D-Day visit
    Caen, France (AFP) June 3, 2009
    A French doctor called Wednesday for facemasks to protect medics from swine flu when President Barack Obama joins D-Day veterans for the 65th anniversary of the D-Day landings. Obama is to lead commemorations attended by thousands of Americans at Saturday's ceremony above Omaha Beach, where more than 9,000 US troops fought and died in June 1944. Already two Americans who are in Normandy ... more

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  • 'Situation under control': Somali defence minister


  • Livestock industry fuelling destruction of Amazonia: Greenpeace


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  • British ship disarms suspected pirate skiffs: US Navy
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  • Australia's oldest man, last WWI veteran dies
  • Sweden picks site to bury nuclear waste for 100,000 years
  • Iran China sign 5 bln dlr gas deal
  • Canadian minister under fire in flap over nuclear documents
  • Russia, Oman sign nuclear energy deal
  • Kazakhstan to review asset sales after nuclear scandal
  • Geithner gets China's support, but state press slams US debt levels

  • China state press slams US debt purchases
  • Analysis: U.S. still wants Azeri energy
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  • ASEAN, South Korea agree to push for 'green growth'
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  • Drought-hit LA, San Diego impose water ban
  • French navy hands over four pirates, two dead to Puntland
  • Swine Flu In All 50 Us States As Cases Top 10,000
  • US wartime bombs still killing in Vietnam
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