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Indian PM backs UN climate panelNew Delhi (AFP) Feb 5, 2010 Indian Premier Manmohan Singh on Friday lent his support to the beleaguered UN climate change panel, saying a glaring error in the body's key 2007 report did not change the science of global warming. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has been under fire since revelations last month that its landmark Fourth Assessment Report mistakenly predicted that Himalayan glaciers could disappear by 2035 as a result of global warming. The claim has been traced to the campaign group WWF, wh ... read more |
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Mogadishu, Somalia (UPI) Feb 4, 2009 War-torn Somalia seems to be headed for a new spasm of bloodshed as al-Shebab, the main Islamist faction that is aligned with al-Qaida, has been strengthened by merging with one of its main militia rivals while another fell apart. This is likely to signal a new offensive by al-Shebab - short for Harakat al-Shebab al-Mujahedin, or Warrior Youth Movement - against the Transitional Fede ... more 
Algiers, Algeria (UPI) Feb 3, 2009 President Abdelaziz Bouteflika is locked in a power struggle with his main intelligence service after it moved against some of his key political allies in an anti-corruption campaign on Jan. 12. Within days of launching the high-profile crackdown on graft, the Department du Renseignement et de la Securite placed Mohammed Meziane, chief executive of the state-owned oil giant Sonatrach, u ... more  
Washington DC (SPX) Feb 04, 2010Speed is not a word typically associated with trees; they can take centuries to grow. However, a new study to be published the week of Feb. 1 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has found evidence that forests in the Eastern United States are growing faster than they have in the past 225 years. The study offers a rare look at how an ecosystem is responding to climate change. ... more |
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Haiti death toll tops 200,000 as aid anger mountsPort-Au-Prince (AFP) Feb 3, 2010 The death toll in the Haiti quake has topped 200,000, Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive said Wednesday as angry protests over the slow arrival of aid flared on the rubble-strewn streets. More than three weeks after the 7.0-magnitude quake, Bellerive said his tiny Caribbean nation had been ravaged by "a disaster on a planetary scale" and detailed the tragic toll suffered by his people. "There are more than 200,000 people who have been clearly identified as people who are dead," he told AFP, addin ... read more |
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