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Katrina's lessons frame Obama oil responseWashington (AFP) May 2, 2010 Hurricane Katrina's role in destroying the Bush administration is offering a daunting lesson, as President Barack Obama confronts the deepening oil catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico. The White House dismisses analogies between the 2005 storm, which still haunts US politics, and the huge oil slick bearing down on the same coast. But George W. Bush's botched response to Katrina provides an irresistible comparison as the media frames the narrative of Obama's presidency and top officials have clearl ... read more |
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Alumot, Israel (AFP) May 3, 2010The once mighty Jordan River, where Christians believe Jesus was baptised, is now little more than a polluted stream that could die next year unless the decay is halted, environmentalists said on Monday. The famed river "has been reduced to a trickle south of the Sea of Galilee, devastated by overexploitation, pollution and lack of regional management," Friends of the Earth, Middle East (FoE ... more  
Dhaka (AFP) May 2, 2010At least 17 people were killed and scores injured by lightning as a series of minor tropical storms and heavy rains swept across Bangladesh, police said Sunday. Six people were killed in the northeastern district of Habiganj, 75 miles (120 kilometres) from capital Dhaka, and four more died in the southern district of Bagerhat after being struck by lightning during a tropical storm. "Most ... more  
Brussels (AFP) April 30, 2010A French warship destroyed a pirate 'mother ship' and 11 Somalis were seized in an anti-piracy operation off the Somali coast, the EU naval force Navfor said on Friday. The surveillance frigate Nivose found, "stopped and searched a mother skiff and two supporting skiffs, some 480 nautical miles east of the Somali coast" on Thursday, Navfor said in a statement. The French sailors boarded ... more |
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US lawmaker pushes for quick growth of wind powerWashington (AFP) April 30, 2010 Democratic lawmaker Rush Holt told AFP on Friday that in view of the disastrous oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico the United States should quickly focus on developing wind power along its coasts. "We should be moving rapidly on those projects," said the New Jersey representative. Holt's comments followed Interior Secretary Ken Salazar's go-ahead Wednesday to the first US offshore wind farm project, a billion-dollar effort to tap the steady wind in the Atlantic near northeastern Massachusetts state ... read more |
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