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Tremors deep within the San Andreas Fault suggest California should not become complacent about future earthquakes, a leading seismologist said.
"The San Andreas fault is changing down deep and it's changing down deep in places where large earthquakes have happened in the past," said Robert Nadeau, a research seismologist at the University of California, Berkeley. Seismic activit ... read more 
Beijing (AFP) July 12, 2009The number of people injured in ethnic violence in China's Urumqi has risen to 1,680, state media reported Sunday, quoting the regional government. The figure was a marked increase from the 1,080 injuries reported on Tuesday by the official Xinhua news agency. The report gave no new update on the death toll, which currently stands at 184 -- 137 of which were Han Chinese, 46 Uighur, and ... more |
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Mumbai (AFP) July 10, 2009The civic authorities in India's financial capital Mumbai are considering cloud seeding amid growing water shortages caused by a lack of consistent monsoon rain, media here reported Friday. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said it had consulted the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) and a company that conducted a cloud seeding experiment in 1992 for the best time to carry out ... more 
Kathmandu (AFP) July 12, 2009India's water resources minister said here Sunday he was satisfied with flood defences along a river that breached its banks last August, displacing millions of people in Nepal and India. Hundreds of villages were flooded and millions of people lost their homes in southern Nepal and the impoverished northern Indian state of Bihar when the Kosi river broke its banks last August. India's ... more  
Tegucigalpa (AFP) July 12, 2009The interim Honduran government Sunday lifted a two-week-old curfew imposed after soldiers ousted leftist President Manuel Zelaya from power, saying the goals of the measure had been met. Meanwhile the deposed Honduran leader was in Washington for a second day of talks with US government and Organization of American States (OAS) officials, seeking support for his return to power after the ... more  
Haifa, Israel (SPX) Jul 13, 2009Researchers from the Department of Science Education-Biology at the University of Haifa-Oranim have managed to make out the "self-irrigating" mechanism of the desert rhubarb, which enables it to harvest 16 times the amount of water than otherwise expected for a plant in this region based on the quantities of rain in the desert. This is the first example of a self-irrigating plant worldwide. ... more |
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Alibaba shares surge after launch of new DeepSeek competitorBeijing (AFP) Mar 6, 2025 Alibaba shares surged more than seven percent in Hong Kong trade on Thursday after the Chinese tech giant launched an artificial intelligence model it says can compete with DeepSeek, this year's surprise tech star. ... more 
Christie's first AI art auction sees hits... and plenty of missesNew York (AFP) Mar 5, 2025 Christie's first auction of art made by artificial intelligence (AI) ended Wednesday with mixed results, providing scant clues as to the future of the new and controversial medium. ... more 
Amazon Prime Video tests AI-assisted dubbingSan Francisco (AFP) Mar 5, 2025 Amazon's Prime Video streaming service announced Wednesday it will begin testing AI-assisted dubbing to make its international content more accessible to viewers worldwide. ... more
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Beijing (AFP) July 11, 2009Deadly unrest in China's Muslim-populated far northwest has highlighted deep tensions felt by dozens of ethnic groups across the vast nation that pose a growing problem for the government, analysts said. China's 55 minority groups make up nearly 10 percent of the population -- roughly 130 million people -- and many feel frustration at the economic dominance of the majority Han, as well as a ... more 
On The Thailand-Myanmar Border (AFP) July 12, 2009They prowl their jungle battleground in sneakers and have to steal their weapons, but Myanmar's ethnic Karen rebels say they will never quit their struggle against the junta. The ragtag Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) has been fighting Myanmar's military government for 60 years -- marking the country's eastern border as the stage for one of the world's longest running conflicts. ... more 
Beijing (AFP) July 13, 2009A fresh aftershock jolted China's southwest Monday, three days after an earthquake in the same area killed one person, injured hundreds and directly affected two million people, state media said. The US Geological Survey said the magnitude 4.9 quake struck a minute after midnight (1601 GMT) and was centred 95 kilometres (60 miles) east northeast of the tourist city of Dali in Yao'an county ... more 
Urumqi, China (AFP) July 12, 2009Zhang Lixia waited fearfully as two young Uighur men approached her liquor shop in downtown Urumqi just days after ethnic unrest here left more than 180 people dead. But the two Muslim men dressed in stylish polo shirts and neatly pressed slacks wanted no trouble, rather a bottle of Johnny Walker whisky, some Chinese spirits and several packs of cigarettes. After the transaction that ... more |
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