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Pakistan flooding death toll expected to risePeshawar, Pakistan (AFP) Aug 3, 2010 The death toll from Pakistan's devastating monsoon rains was expected to rise on Tuesday as fears grew of outbreaks of disease among the 2.5 million people affected by the floods. Up to 1,500 people have died in the country's northwest as floods and landslides triggered by unprecedented rain have destroyed homes and farmland in one of the country's most impoverished regions. Aid officials said clean drinking water and sanitation were urgently needed to stop diseases such as cholera spreading amo ... read more |
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Mogadishu, Somalia (UPI) Aug 2, 2010 More than 120 Somalis immigrants who had been jailed in Saudi Arabia arrived in the capital Mogadishu after being deported. Their arrival comes as the United Nations in Geneva urged Saudi Arabia to reconsider its policy of sending Somalis back to the war-torn country, in particular Mogadishu where fierce street battles last week killed at least 13 civilians and wounded 40 others. ... more  
Brasilia (AFP) Aug 2, 2010The list of World Heritage sites, which brings an endorsement that can boost tourism and environmental protection for those on it, has swelled with 21 additions decided at a UNESCO meeting in recent days. UNESCO's World Heritage Committee, which wraps up its deliberations in Brasilia on Tuesday after 10 days of work, awarded its seal to a few already well-visited attractions, such as Amsterd ... more  
Peshawar, Pakistan (AFP) Aug 2, 2010Fears grew Monday about outbreaks of disease among 1.5 million people affected by Pakistan's worst floods in 80 years after monsoon rains killed more than 1,200 people across the northwest. Unprecedented rains triggered floods and landslides, sweeping away thousands of homes and devastating farmland in one of Pakistan's most impoverished regions, already hard hit by years of Taliban and Al-Q ... more |
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Ice-Free Arctic Ocean May Not Be Of Much Use In Soaking Up Carbon DioxideAthens GA (SPX) Aug 03, 2010 The summer of 2010 has been agonizingly hot in much of the continental U.S., and the record-setting temperatures have refocused attention on global warming. Scientists have been looking at ways the Earth might benefit from natural processes to balance the rising heat, and one process had intrigued them, a premise that melting ice at the poles might allow more open water that could absorb carbon dioxide, one of the major compounds implicating in warming. Now, though, in research just publishe ... read more |
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