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Islamic charities versus the US in battle for Pakistan aidPeshawar, Pakistan (AFP) Aug 11, 2010 When torrential monsoon rains flooded Pakistan, sparking the country's worst-ever humanitarian crisis, hardline Islamic charities moved fast. Faster than the government. Banned in Pakistan and on a UN terror list, Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) is one of a number of Islamic organisations that have been highly visible in the battle to help provide relief to millions of survivors. Filling a void created by the perceived failure of the civilian government to mobilise, fears are growing in the United States t ... read more |
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Montreal (AFP) Aug 11, 2010The largest ice island in almost 50 years poses no immediate threat as it will take up to two years to drift through the Arctic Ocean, the Canadian who discovered it told AFP on Wednesday. Trudy Wohlleben, a forecaster from the Canadian Ice Service, spotted the massive slab of ice that broke off a glacier in Greenland last week as she analyzed raw data from a NASA satellite. At about 30 ... more  
Palo Alto CA (SPX) Aug 12, 2010By 2100 only 18% to 45% of the plants and animals making up ecosystems in global, humid tropical forests may remain as we know them today, according to a new study led by Greg Asner at the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology. The research combined new deforestation and selective logging data with climate-change projections. It is the first study to consider these combined e ... more  
Westminster CO (SPX) Aug 12, 2010In trying to predict how species will respond to climate change caused by global warming, researchers and scientists are turning to comparative physiology, a sub-discipline of physiology that studies how different organisms function and adapt to diverse and changing environments. By comparing different species to each other, as well as to members within a species that live in different env ... more |
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Mugabe thanks China for steadfast supportShanghai (AFP) Aug 11, 2010 Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe Wednesday thanked China for its steadfast support as he visited the World Expo in Shanghai and called for help in reviving his country's shattered economy. Mugabe expressed his deep gratitude to Beijing and called for deeper cooperation, at a time when his country is struggling with a decade of acute food shortages. "China has always stood by Zimbabwe," Mugabe said as he presided over Zimbabwe Day at the Expo. "It is thus natural and logical for us to forge ... read more |
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