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 Buenos Aires (AFP) Oct 22, 2009 
The equivalent of 36 football fields are being stripped from the world's forests each minute, the environmental group World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) said in a statement released here on Thursday. The group, presenting its figures during a UN-organized World Forestry Congress held in the Argentine capital, called for "net deforestation of zero" by 2020. Rodney Taylor, in charge of the ... read more 
Washington (AFP) Oct 22, 2009The United States on Thursday announced plans to designate more than 200,000 square miles in Alaska as critical habitat for polar bears, a key step towards increasing protection for the threatened species. "Proposing critical habitat for this iconic species is one step in the right direction to help this species stave off extinction, recognizing that the greatest threat to the polar bear is ... more |
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Dharamshala, India (AFP) Oct 22, 2009Chinese soldiers executed three Tibetans for their role in unrest that shook the region last year, an exiles' organisation said on Thursday citing unnamed sources. The Gu Chu Sum group of former Tibetan political prisoners said the two men and one woman were shot on Wednesday in the capital Lhasa, having been detained after riots broke out in Tibet in March 2008. Fierce anti-China ... more  
Beijing (AFP) Oct 24, 2009China's agriculture ministry has announced that an epidemic of swine disease that killed more than 80,000 pigs in 2007 has emerged in parts of the country. An outbreak of pathogenic blue-eared pig disease, also known as porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome, has appeared in five areas of China, the ministry said in a statement posted on the central government website. But the ... more  
Nairobi (AFP) Oct 22, 2009Attempts to curb Somali piracy by deploying warships or resuscitating the central government are doomed, and efforts should focus on buttressing local players in pirate hubs, according to a new report. The 71-page report entitled "Piracy in the Greater Gulf of Aden: Myths, Misconception and Remedies" argued that helping structures with local legitimacy -- such as the Puntland authorities and ... more |
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Nairobi (AFP) Oct 22, 2009Pirates captured a Panamanian-flagged ship with 26 crew off the East Africa coast on Thursday and fired rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons at an Italian ship, which escaped. The bulk carrier Al Khaliq was hijacked when pirates boarded and overpowered the mostly Indian crew in waters between Somalia and the Seychelles, the joint European Union-NATO mission to protect shipping in ... more  
Stockholm (AFP) Oct 24, 2009World leaders could fail to reach a new climate deal at a UN summit in Copenhagen if rich countries refuse to financially help developing nations tackle climate change, government and NGO officials said at a development conference that wrapped up Saturday. With less than 50 days to go before it starts, the Copenhagen summit was a central topic of debate and discussion at the annual EU ... more 
Washington (AFP) Oct 24, 2009President Barack Obama declared swine flu a "national emergency" on Saturday, as the United States reels from millions of cases of infection and more than 1,000 deaths. The emergency declaration, which Obama signed late Friday, lets doctors and nurses temporarily bypass certain federal requirements so they can better handle a spike in influenza A(H1N1) patients. The declaration comes ... more |
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