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Indonesia denies failures in tsunami aid effortPadang, Indonesia (AFP) Nov 1, 2010 Indonesian officials on Monday denied reports that aid is rotting in ports as desperate tsunami survivors scavenge for wild roots a week after the disaster that killed around 450 people. As President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said his country would accept foreign money for reconstruction of the tsunami-hit villages, there were also reports that the government planned to relocate people away from the coast. Survivors of last Monday's three-metre (10-foot) wave in the Mentawai islands off western S ... read more |
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  Naples still full of garbage, despite Berlusconi deal Thousands of tonnes of garbage still choked the streets of Naples Sunday, despite Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's assurances that the crisis had been resolved, ANSA reported. ... more | .. |
  Tanzanians vote as ruling party predicts landslide win Tanzanians voted Sunday in elections which incumbent President Jakaya Kikwete predicted will hand him a landslide victory for a second term in office. ... more | .. |
 Weather clears for Indonesia tsunami aid as toll climbs Indonesia ramped up aid operations Sunday for victims of last week's devastating tsunami, as the toll climbed despite the discovery of 135 traumatised villagers who were feared dead. ... more | .. |
Nani Croze - East Africa's answer to Gaudi Visit Nani Croze's glassworks outside Nairobi and you could be forgiven for thinking that like Alice, you've fallen down a rabbit-hole and landed in Wonderland. ... more | .. |
  Migrants wary as China launches census Tan Jianguo and his wife are migrant workers who have lived in a dirty rundown alleyway in a Beijing suburb for the past 10 years, eking out a meagre living for themselves and their two small children. ... more |
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Port-Au-Prince (AFP) Oct 30, 2010Haiti reported seven new deaths Saturday from the cholera outbreak, bringing to 337 the number killed by the diarrheal disease since it first appeared earlier this month. With 4,764 people infected and under medical treatment, the death rate has nevertheless slowed from earlier this week, officials said. Health authorities are battling to contain the disease, fearing it could spread dram ... more  
Sanya, China (AFP) Oct 30, 2010Blonde, blue-eyed American teenager Alexandria Mills won the Miss World crown for 2010 on Saturday, defeating more than 100 other hopefuls at a glittering ceremony in southern China. Mills, an 18-year-old from the southern US state of Kentucky, wept as outgoing Miss World Kaiane Aldorino of Gibraltar placed the tiara on her head and led her to a diamond-shaped throne marking the pageant's 60 ... more  
South Pagai, Indonesia (AFP) Oct 30, 2010Scores of people feared dead in Indonesia's tsunami disaster zone were found alive Saturday as rescue workers began to reach remote island communities five days after the killer wave. The discovery came as Indonesia struggled with disaster on two fronts following another powerful eruption of the archipelago's most active volcano, which sparked chaos and spewed ash over a vast area of central ... more |
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UN biodiversity accord raises hopes for climate changeNagoya, Japan (AFP) Oct 30, 2010 Bitterly divided rich and poor nations can work together to save the world from global warming, jubilant negotiators said on Saturday after forging a historic UN pact on protecting ecosystems. Delegates from 193 countries emerged from two weeks of intense diplomacy and a frightening last few hours of bare-knuckle negotiations to seal early on Saturday morning an accord to curb the world's loss of biodiversity by 2020. The talks, held in the central Japanese city of Nagoya, particularly saw the E ... read more |
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