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Donor countries to meet on Haiti rebuilding effortPunta Cana, Dominican Republic (AFP) June 1, 2010 Donor countries were to meet in the Dominican Republican Wednesday for a summit on the international effort to rebuild Haiti, still struggling after being leveled by a massive January earthquake. "It is the first meeting following a donors' conference held in New York on March 21, which received pledges of 10 billion dollars," Haiti's Finance and Economy Minister Ronald Beaudin told AFP. The meeting, the "World Summit for the Future of Haiti" to be held in the resort town of Punta Cana, is to be ... read more |
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Oslo (AFP) June 1, 2010Forest fires and straw and stubble burning for farmland in regions as far afield as North America and Eastern Europe have a devastating effect on the Arctic's environment, a Norwegian study published Tuesday found. According to the study published by the Research Council of Norway, fires in North America and Eastern Europe release persistent organic pollutants (POPs), including the toxic com ... more  
Geneva (AFP) June 1, 2010Scientists advising the World Health Organisation on Tuesday held a meeting to give their latest assessment of swine flu, in a move that could end the pandemic alert, a WHO spokesman said. The UN health agency said the result of the confidential meeting would be announced on Wednesday. Speaking shortly before the teleconference began, WHO spokesman Gregory Haertl said the scientists woul ... more  
Toronto ON (SPX) Jun 01, 2010A study by researchers at the University of Toronto and the Royal Ontario Museum sheds new light on a previously unclassifiable 500 million-year-old squid-like carnivore known as Nectocaris pteryx. "We think that this extremely rare creature is an early ancestor of squids, octopuses, and other cephalopods", says Martin Smith of U of T's Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EEB) ... more |
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China, Japan launch world's biggest online marketplaceTokyo (AFP) June 1, 2010 China's largest retail website Taobao and Yahoo! Japan launched a joint service Tuesday in a deal expected to create the world's biggest online marketplace by harnessing Asia's surging ranks of e-consumers. The service is expected to dwarf US rival eBay in terms of users and products on offer, attracting 250 million customers and offering 450 million products. "This marks the birth of the world's largest e-commerce market," Masayoshi Son, chairman of Yahoo! Japan and CEO of mobile phone carrier ... read more |
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