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Floods kill 25, wreck homes in French RivieraDraguignan, France (AFP) June 17, 2010 Rescuers combed wrecked cars and homes for bodies on the French Riviera on Thursday after the worst floods in two centuries killed 25 people including a two-year-old, authorities said. Authorities in the Var, a popular holiday region, raised the death toll to 25 on Thursday from an earlier count of 22 after the floodwaters engulfed streets in torrents of mud and drove people onto the roofs of their homes. A two-year-old child died after falling into the flood water as a family scrambled to escap ... read more |
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Hong Kong (AFP) June 17, 2010Hong Kong's government held an unprecedented debate Thursday with opposition camps on a controversial political reform plan as pro-democracy demonstrators called for universal suffrage. Chief Executive Donald Tsang held his first televised debate on the hot-button issue with the leader of one of the main opposition parties in a last-ditch effort to win public support before the city's legisl ... more  
Abuja, Nigeria (UPI) Jun 17, 2010 Al-Qaida's North African affiliate is striving to extend its influence into Muslim-dominated northern Nigeria, where there have been bloody clashes with Christians in recent years. Some analysts see this as little more than wishful thinking on the part of al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb, the Arabic name for North Africa. But, if it can achieve a linkup, that could spell big troub ... more  
Corvallis OR (SPX) Jun 17, 2010Forestry scientists at Oregon State University have demonstrated for the first time that the growth rate and other characteristics of trees can be changed through "cisgenics" - a type of genetic engineering that is conceptually similar to traditional plant breeding. Cisgenics uses genes from closely related species that usually are sexually compatible. If governments choose to regulate it ... more |
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Gulf of Mexico inhabitants push for energy bill in CongressWashington (AFP) June 16, 2010 Close to 100 local officials, businessmen, fishermen and ordinary citizens from oil-stricken states on the Gulf of Mexico, went before Congress Wednesday to push for a new energy and climate change bill. "Americans don't want band-aid solutions to this crisis. They want comprehensive action. Now is not the time for delays, now is the time for leaders in the Senate to act," resort owner Kevin Overton, of Escambia, Florida, told a press conference. Hailing from Louisiana, Mississippi, Florida and ... read more |
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