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 Padang, Indonesia (AFP) Oct 2, 2009 
Indonesia said Thursday it feared thousands had died in a major earthquake as exhausted rescue workers clawed through mountains of rubble with their bare hands in a race to find survivors. The first rescue flights laden with food, medicine and body bags arrived in the devastated region on Sumatra island as another powerful quake struck further south, causing more injuries and sparking panic. ... read more
Apia (AFP) Oct 1, 2009Rescuers reached scenes of stunning devastation on Wednesday after a killer tsunami obliterated Samoan island villages, killing at least 148 people and leaving scores more missing. As distraught relatives picked through the rubble of homes and tourist resorts destroyed by Tuesday's 8.0-magnitude earthquake that triggered a tsunami, aid workers were left breathless at the catastrophe. ... more |
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Quang Nam, Vietnam (AFP) Oct 1, 2009Millions of flood-hit survivors of devastating Typhoon Ketsana waited desperately for aid and braced for a new super storm on Thursday as the disaster's death toll climbed to 383. One of the most destructive storms in recent years, Ketsana wreaked havoc in the Philippines at the weekend then strengthened over the South China Sea to batter Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Thailand. The Philipp ... more  
London (AFP) Oct 1, 2009Climate change has "potentially huge security implications" and NATO countries should use the alliance as a forum to address the challenges it creates, the new NATO chief said Thursday. Rising sea levels, droughts and falling food production could spark large population movements and conflict, while the melting of Arctic ice risked inflaming tensions in the region, Secretary General Anders ... more 
Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. (UPI) Oct 1, 2009 The U.S. space agency says it is ready to start a study of the Earth's southern ice-covered regions to identify changes in sea ice, ice sheets and glaciers. On Oct. 12, NASA's "Operation Ice Bridge" resumes when the space agency's DC-8 -- the largest aircraft in its science fleet - leaves the Dryden Flight Research Center in California for Punta Arenas, Chile, where it will be based th ... more |
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Manila (AFP) Oct 1, 2009Louie Santa Maria has barely slept since deadly floods swept through Manila on Saturday. But the auto dealer has no complaints with business booming as car owners seek help for their water-logged vehicles. "I don't see us clearing the backlog before Christmas," said Santa Maria, manager of a chain of Honda dealerships and repair shops in the eastern part of the Philippine capital where flood ... more  
Buenos Aires (UPI) Oct 1, 2009 Argentina revamped the government's agriculture administration in a bid to calm farmers who are angry over the farm taxation policies of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner. The new Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food will take over from an Agriculture Secretariat that so far has worked within the Ministry of Production. Argentine Cabinet Chief Anibal Fernandez annou ... more  
Cairo (AFP) Oct 1, 2009Arab countries have stepped up efforts to combat swine flu ahead of the hajj, fearing the annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca could provoke outbreaks despite reassurances from Saudi Arabia. Some two million foreigners and possibly as many Saudis are expected to descend on Mecca and Medina for the hajj, which takes place in the middle of the northern hemisphere's winter flu season in November. ... more |
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