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Proxy Aviation Completes Cooperative Flight Demonstration OF UAV For USAF Germantown MD (SPX) Aug 08, 2007 
Proxy Aviation System announced that it successfully completed a series of demonstrations of the cooperative flight capabilities of its SkyWatcher and SkyRaider unmanned aerial vehicles, managed by its SkyForce Distributed Management System. The U.S. Air Force contracted with Proxy to perform these tests under the operational control of the USAF UAV Battle Lab. The demonstration, called Cooperat ... read more
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UN Warns Of Looming Health Crisis In South Asia Flooding
Geneva (AFP) Aug 07, 2007Millions of people marrooned by severe floods in South Asia face a looming health crisis unless they receive clean water supplies within days, United Nations agencies said Tuesday. The UN children's fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organisation said that stagnant flood waters were breeding grounds for diarrhoeal and waterborne diseases, including cholera as well as insect-borne diseases such a ... more Rain And Blocked Roads Hinder Nepal Flood Relief 
Kathmandu (AFP) Aug 07, 2007More rain and blocked roads have delayed efforts to help 300,000 people in southern Nepal hit by major flooding, amid fears of a rise in water-borne illnesses, officials said Tuesday. "We are concerned about water-borne diseases like diarrhea, dysentery and typhoid," Arjun Bahadur Singh, Nepal's health ministry spokesman, told AFP. "There is no shortage of medicine. However, accessibility is a p ... more Indian Boat Owners Exploit Floods To Make Money 
Madhubani, India (AFP) Aug 07, 2007Yamuna Devi and her children clung to a tree, waving desperately at a passing boat to rescue them. It paddled off as she had no money to pay for a ride to safety in India's flooded Bihar state. "Pay or perish," the boatman screamed, mumbling obscenities as she numbly stared at the retreating vessel filled with people who had paid 40 rupees (one dollar) each for a ride in the state's cut-off Madh ... more Rivers Recede But Millions Go Hungry In Flooded South Asia 
Patna, India (AFP) Aug 07, 2007The toll from severe floods across South Asia soared to nearly 1,900 Tuesday and although water levels in the region's swollen rivers started to recede, millions of people still faced hunger. Aid workers struggled to deliver supplies to some of the 28 million people displaced across India, Bangladesh and Nepal by the worst monsoon-triggered flooding in decades, with some areas unreachable due to ... more India To Set Up Largest Asian Telescope In Himalayas In 2012 
New Delhi (RIA Novosti) Aug 07, 2007A vast telescope to be made by Russian and Belgian firms will be installed in India's Himalayas in 2012, the director of an Indian research institute said Monday. Asia's largest telescope "will enable us to see four to five times deeper into space than before, and receive high-quality images," said Professor Ram Sagal of the Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences. An optical gla ... more |
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Manila, Philippines (AFP) Aug 07, 2007China and India are the new engines of world economic growth, replacing the United States and other developed countries, International Monetary Fund managing director Rodrigo Rato said Tuesday. He said China overtook the United States this year to become the biggest contributor to world economic growth. "For the first time, the largest contribution to global growth will now be made by China," Ra ... more Indian State Plants 10 Million Trees In One Day 
Lucknow, India (AFP) Aug 07, 2007India's most populous state planted more than 10 million trees in a single day Tuesday as part of an environmental awareness drive, authorities said. Farmers and students were mobilised to plant the record number of trees across the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, home to 160 million people. "In fact, we have overshot the target," said state forestry chief V.N. Garg in the capital Lucknow, addi ... more Japan presses India on nuclear deal 
Manila (AFP) Aug 01, 2007Japan said Wednesday it was very cautious about any nuclear cooperation with India and urged New Delhi to make a full accounting of its landmark atomic deal with the United States. Japan said it could help India with its vast and growing energy needs but said the country, one of the world's top polluters and a nuclear-armed state, should take part in future efforts to fight climate change. ... more US Congress To Scrutinize Nuclear Pact With India 
Washington DC (AFP) Aug 04, 2007The US Congress has to determine whether an operational agreement of a landmark US-India nuclear deal is legal, the head of an influential House of Representatives panel said Friday. The statement by Tom Lantos, the Democratic chairman of the House committee on foreign affairs, came as two US arms experts warned that the civilian nuclear agreement was filled with "loopholes" that could be exploi ... more |
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Washington (AFP) Aug 03, 2007President George W. Bush has invited the world's major polluters to a September 27-28 conference to set long-term goals on cutting greenhouse gas emissions. Environmental groups have called the plan, which Bush proposed in a speech on May 31, a diversion from other global efforts to combat global warming, while Washington says it complements UN-driven talks on the issue. Bush asked Australia, Br ... more Pakistan Says US-India Nuke Deal Risks Arms Race 
Islamabad (AFP) Aug 02, 2007Pakistan warned Thursday that a civilian nuclear accord between India and the United States threatens regional stability, saying it would allow its arch rival to produce more atomic bombs. The caution came at a meeting of Pakistan's National Command Authority (NCA) chaired by President Pervez Musharraf, a statement said. The body oversees the country's nuclear strategy. The long-delayed deal ann ... more Pollution Amplifies Greenhouse Gas Warming Trends To Jeopardize Asian Water Supplies 
San Diego CA (SPX) Aug 02, 2007Scientists have concluded that the global warming trend caused by the buildup of greenhouse gases is a major contributor to the melting of Himalayan and other tropical glaciers. Now a new analysis of pollution-filled "brown clouds" over south Asia by researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego offers hope that the region may be able to arrest some of the alarming retreat o ... more Aid Scarce For 20 Million Stranded In South Asia Floods
New Delhi (AFP) Aug 02, 2007Relief teams in India, Bangladesh and Nepal on Thursday battled to bring food, clean drinking water and medicines to nearly 20 million people stranded in massive flooding. More than 1,100 people have died across South Asia since the start of the annual monsoon season in mid-June, with the region's rivers bursting their banks due to relentless rains and snows melting in the Himalayas. Britain and ... more
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