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Flood-triggered landslide in China leaves 21 missingBeijing (AFP) July 27, 2010 A landslide in southwestern China left 21 people missing Tuesday as torrential rains forced officials to shut boat traffic through the Three Gorges Dam as they braced for a new flood crest. China has struggled for weeks with deadly flooding that has killed at least 823 people, left 437 missing and caused at least 22 billion dollars in damage, and authorities have warned of more destruction. The 21 villagers went missing when Tuesday's landslide struck Hanyuan county in the southwestern province ... read more |
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The Hague (AFP) July 27, 2010The Netherlands is destroying more than 17 million unused doses of swine flu vaccine that were nearing their expiry date and that it could not resell, the health ministry said Tuesday. "We have started destroying" the vaccines, health ministry spokeswoman Inge Freriksen told AFP. "In the coming months, 17.8 million doses will be destroyed because the expiry date is approaching." The Dutc ... more  
Washington (AFP) July 27, 2010President Barack Obama on Tuesday pledged to fight on for a climate change bill, despite the collapse of US Senate legislation designed to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Obama, after talks with Democratic and Republican leaders in Congress, said a watered down energy bill soon to come before lawmakers, shorn of climate change action, was just a first step. "That legislation is an importan ... more  
Campusel, Romania (AFP) July 27, 2010Activists dressed as bears and holding placards reading "this is my home" protested Tuesday plans to build a highway in Romania they say would cut into one Europe's last intact forests. "We are going to defend it (the forest) with our bodies, we will not allow concrete mixers and saws to enter," president of the Agent Green nongovernment organisation, Gabriel Paun, told AFP. The group is ... more |
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Gulf focus shifts, but where is all the oil?New Orleans, Louisiana (AFP) July 27, 2010 With BP's leaking well in the Gulf of Mexico finally capped, the focus shifts to the surface clean-up and the question on everyone's lips is: where is all the oil? For three long months a massive slick threatened the shorelines of Louisiana and other southern US Gulf Coast states as BP tried everything from top hats to junk shots and giant domes to stanch the toxic sludge. A cap stopped the flow on July 15 and now, thanks to frantic efforts to skim and burn the crude on the surface, the real dif ... read more |
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