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Death toll from China floods and landslides rises to 38Beijing (AFP) June 3, 2010 The death toll from flooding and landslides in southern China climbed to 38 on Thursday, state media reported, as torrential rains moved further west in the country. Rain storm-triggered landslides struck five counties in Guangxi region on Wednesday, leaving 38 dead and another 14 people missing, the official Xinhua news agency reported. Heavy rainstorms started pounding the region on Monday, triggering the deadly landslides and forcing the evacuation of nearly 80,000 people, it quoted the local ... read more |
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Bucharest (AFP) June 3, 2010The European Union will work for an "ambitious outcome" at November's climate summit in Cancun, Mexico, and hopes other states will follow suit, climate chief Connie Hedegaard said Thursday. "We in Europe are ready to do whatever we can to secure an ambitious outcome in Cancun," Hedegaard said during a press conference in Bucharest. Six months after Copenhagen, where states failed to agr ... more  
Geneva (AFP) June 3, 2010World Health Organisation chief Margaret Chan on Thursday decided to maintain a pandemic alert nearly a year after she placed the world on maximum readiness for the new swine flu virus. The WHO said following advice from a panel of scientists that although the outbreak had declined, cases of A(H1N1) influenza were expected to continue in the coming weeks mainly during the southern hemisphere ... more 
Wellington (AFP) June 3, 2010New research has cast doubt on warnings that rising sea levels caused by climate change are slowly inundating low-lying Pacific islands. Scientists have studied 27 low-lying Pacific islands, comparing aerial photos from 60 years ago with modern satellite images, according to an article published Wednesday in The New Scientist. Paul Kench of the University of Auckland in New Zealand and A ... more |
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Iraq plans dozens of new oil wellsBaghdad (UPI) Jun 3, 2010 Iraq plans to upgrade scores of oil wells and drill dozens of new ones as part of Baghdad's ambitious drive to quadruple production from major oil fields now operated by Exxon Mobil, Royal Dutch Shell, Eni of Italy and other foreign companies. The government wants to boost output from the current level of around 2.1 million bpd to 10 million-12 million bpd over the next six years, with the proceeds funding national reconstruction. Some in the energy industry see that as overly ambitious, ... read more |
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