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Celia upgraded to major hurricane, new Pacific storm formsMiami (AFP) June 23, 2010 Hurricane Celia, the first of the 2010 Pacific season, strengthened Wednesday into a major Category Three storm south of Mexico, while another potential hurricane was churning in Celia's wake, US officials said. Packing sustained winds near 185 kilometers (115 miles) per hour with higher gusts, Celia was some 1,180 kilometers south of Cabo San Lucas on the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula at 2100 GMT Wednesday, with no threat posed to coastlines, the US-based National Hurricane Center s ... read more |
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Cleveland (UPI) Jun 23, 2010 U.S.-led scientists say they've discovered a 3.6-million-year-old partial skeleton in Ethiopia, making it 400,000 years older than the famous "Lucy" skeleton. Scientists from The Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Kent State University, Case Western Reserve University, Ethiopia's Addis Ababa University and the Berkeley Geochronology Center said the find suggests advanced human-like, u ... more  
Hanoi (AFP) June 23, 2010Billions of dollars - mainly from China - are being poured into a fast-growing global system of rewards for people who protect endangered water resources, according to a study released Wednesday. The programmes, implemented by governments as well as the private sector and community groups, "could help avert a looming global water quality crisis," according to the report by Ecosystem Market ... more  
Hong Kong (AFP) June 23, 2010Heavyweight investors, including Qatar's investment fund, have stumped up 5.45 billion US dollars for the Agricultural Bank of China IPO even before the share sale officially starts. The offering, to begin Thursday, is on track to become the world's biggest, with pre-sale estimates soaring as high as 28 billion US dollars, outpacing the 22-billion-dollar offering by Industrial and Commercia ... more |
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U.S. still weighing arms deal to TaiwanTaipei, Taiwan (UPI) Jun 23, 2010 The chairman of Washington's American Institute in Taiwan says the U.S. administration is still considering bids by Taiwan to purchase U.S. fighter jets. "It's an issue we are studying. There has been no decision made saying we are not going to sell ... We are carefully looking at the aerial defense needs of Taiwan," institute Chairman Raymond Burghardt told reporters in Taipei. His remarks followed talks with President Ma Ying-jeou, who has made the request for the island's purchase of ... read more |
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