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Flash floods leave at least 38 dead or missing in Vietnam
Hanoi - Three days of flash floods have killed at least 20 people, left 18 missing and damaged many homes and roads in northern Vietnam, the country's Central Steering Committee for Flood and Storm Control said Monday. Thirteen people were killed whe...
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2009-07-06 ] Category : [
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German nuclear plants to be checked out after incident
Berlin - Germany's environment minister Sunday announced a check of electrical systems at nuclear power plants after an incident forced one of them to be taken off the electricity grid on Saturday. Sigmar Gabriel said the fault at the Kruemmel reacto...
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2009-07-05 ] Category : [
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8-million-year-old elephant found in Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi - Paleontologists on Sunday announced that they had discovered the 8-million-year-old fossilized remains of an elephant, a hippo and a giant ostrich in western Abu Dhabi. Archaeologists from Yale University and Abu Dhabi's Authority on Cult...
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2009-07-05 ] Category : [
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South African rhino sale comes under criticism
Johannesburg - A planned sale of up to 350 rhinoceroses from South Africa's Kruger National Park has run into sharp criticism from animal rights activists. Some of the animals would likely be sold to ranches where they could be shot by trophy hunters...
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2009-07-05 ] Category : [
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Iraq hit by worst sandstorms in decades - Feature
Baghdad - The weather in Baghdad has been biblical of late. Great walls of sand, driven by scorching hot winds, have crashed against the walls and windows of the city, delaying historic business deals, waylaying diplomatic visits, even interfering wi...
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2009-07-05 ] Category : [
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150,000 evacuated as storms batter southern China
Beijing - Torrential rains and flooding forced more than 150,000 people from their homes, cut power and destroyed crops across southern China, state media reported Saturday. More than 47,000 people were evacuated in the Guanxi region after three days...
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2009-07-04 ] Category : [
Environment ]
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Ministers agree to upper limit for allowable global warming
Copenhagen/Nuuk, Greenland - In advance of a major global warming conference in December, ministers from 29 industrialized nations have agreed that no more than an increase of two degrees Celsius can be allowed in the fight against global warming. T...
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2009-07-04 ] Category : [
Environment ]
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