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The swine flu pandemic has grown "unstoppable" and all nations will need access to vaccines, a WHO official said Monday, as seven new deaths were reported and a study raised fresh concerns. Britain, Thailand and the Philippines all reported deaths on Monday, while Saudi Arabia shut an international school after 20 students were diagnosed with the A(H1N1) virus. As the death toll ... read more 
Tegucigalpa (AFP) July 13, 2009Honduras' interim leader said mediated talks may restart later this week, as the political crisis here entered a tense third week despite the lifting of the curfew imposed after a coup that removed President Manuel Zelaya. "We have been officially informed that we will possibly meet in Costa Rica again on Saturday," said Roberto Micheletti at the swearing-in ceremony for his de facto ... more |
Search ends for missing crew member after North Sea collision
Argentina searches for baby, young sister swept away by floods What we know about the North Sea tanker collision Trump's energy chief vows reversal of Biden climate policies One missing after cargo ship, tanker collide in North Sea North Sea cargo ship owner says one crew member missing Residents evacuated as Guatemalan volcano spews lava, rocks Greenpeace 'extremely concerned' about 'toxic hazards' from North Sea crash Huge fire, more than 30 injured after North Sea ships crash Trump's Energy Secretary vows reversal of Biden climate policies 
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Washington DC (SPX) Jul 14, 2009U.S. municipal governments are showing leadership by voluntarily accounting for and reducing greenhouse gas emissions resulting from their operations. They also recognize the huge potential to influence long-term reductions from the residents and businesses in their communities, according to a new report. The report summarizes findings of a joint project by the Carbon Disclosure Project ... more 
L'Aquila, Italy (UPI) Jul 13, 2009 The U.S. president said the Group of Eight's work on climate change represented a "historic consensus," but there are many others who have a very different view of the leaders' efforts. The G8 leaders, with U.S. President Barack Obama attending his first such session, made climate issues one of the central agenda items for their meetings last week in Italy. Among the agreements ... more  
Urumqi, China (AFP) July 13, 2009Police shot dead two knife-wielding Muslim Uighurs in China's restive Urumqi city on Monday, authorities said, as violence flared again despite a massive security crackdown. The shooting took place in a Uighur district of the city and triggered an immediate show of force by riot police who poured into the area carrying semi-automatic weapons and closing shops, an AFP reporter witnessed. ... more  
Jakarta (AFP) July 13, 2009A strong 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck Indonesia's remote eastern Sumba island Monday but there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries, seismologists said. The quake struck at 7:52 pm (1052 GMT) with an epicentre 107 kilometres (67 miles) northwest of the main island town of Waingapu, the Indonesian Meteorology and Geophysics Agency said. It was measured at a depth of 86 ... more |
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Goonhilly Provides Critical Communications for Lunar Mission, Advancing Moon EconomyLos Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 05, 2025 Goonhilly Earth Station Ltd continues to play a pivotal role in lunar exploration and infrastructure expansion, reinforcing its importance in humanity's return to the Moon. Goonhilly is delive ... 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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Paris (AFP) July 13, 2009A runaway spurt of global warming 55 million years ago turned Earth into a hothouse but how this happened remains worryingly unclear, scientists said on Monday. Previous research into this period, called the Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, or PETM, estimates the planet's surface temperature blasted upwards by between five and nine degrees Celsius (nine and 16.2 degrees Fahrenheit) in just ... more 
Brussels (AFP) July 13, 2009Intensive farming is damaging the habitats of hundreds of species of European animals, the European Commission warned Monday, and urged EU member states to redouble their efforts to protect them. The warning came with the publication of what the commission said was the most comprehensive survey of EU biodiversity ever undertaken, looking at 1182 species in 216 habitats from 2001 to 2006. ... more 
Paris (AFP) July 13, 2009Scientists in the United States said on Monday they could help explain why women infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) advance faster to AIDS than men. One of the enigmas about the AIDS pandemic is why women, after infection with HIV-1, seem better able to combat the virus in its early stages but then advance faster to AIDS compared to men infected with a similar level of the ... more  
Bissau (AFP) July 13, 2009Guinea-Bissau denied Monday it had massed troops on its border with Guinea, which put its army on the alert at the weekend, citing large troop deployments on its frontier. "We have no troops on the border with Guinea. The only elements we have is a detachment of border guards, customs agents and border police, nothing more," the head of Guinea-Bissau's armed forces, Zamora Induta, told AFP. ... more |
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