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Obama hails New Orleans 'resilience' five years post-KatrinaNew Orleans, Louisiana (AFP) Aug 29, 2010 US President Barack Obama, marking the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans Sunday, praised the city's resilience and pledged support for rebuilding "until the job is done." He acknowledged that the famed jazz city, where at least 1,500 people died in the storm and its aftermath, was still in need of support, but said community efforts had ensured "New Orleans is blossoming once more." "Together, we are helping to make New Orleans a place that stands for what we can do in Americ ... read more |
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Taipei (AFP) Aug 30, 2010Taiwan plans to set up a marine national park in the middle of one of its largest fishing grounds despite opposition from fishermen who depend on the area for their livelihood, an official said Monday. The planned national park will cover three island chains and surrounding waters to the north of Taiwan, measuring some 750 square kilometres (300 square miles). "An evaluation of the new m ... more  
Beijing (AFP) Aug 30, 2010China and Russia have agreed to set up the first cross-border protection zone for Siberian tigers, as they try to boost efforts to save the endangered species, state media reported Monday. The zone will straddle China's northeastern province of Jilin and Russia's Primorsky Krai region, and authorities in both countries will launch an anti-poaching campaign along the border, the China Daily n ... more  
New Delhi (AFP) Aug 30, 2010Rajendra Pachauri, under scrutiny as head of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), is a 69-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner with a sideline in writing steamy novels. Pachauri, a father-of-three with friends in high places in his native India, learnt the results Monday of a five-month review of how the IPCC has performed under his stewardship. He has faced repeated c ... more |
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Flood spares Pakistan city as waters recedeSujawal, Pakistan (AFP) Aug 30, 2010 A torrent of water threatening to deluge a city in flood-hit Pakistan has begun to recede, officials said Monday, as emergency workers plugged a breach in defences against the swollen Indus river. Pakistani troops and workers were on a "war footing" over the weekend battling to save the southern city of Thatta after most of the 300,000 population fled the advancing waters. "The breach near Thatta has been half-plugged and fortunately the flood has also changed its course and is moving away from ... read more |
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