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 Dhaka (AFP) July 5, 2009 
When forest officials in southeastern Bangladesh heard that two tigers had strayed out of the forest and into a remote village they knew they had to act quickly. Though villagers in the area were worried about their own lives, the authorities were racing to save the big cats after a wave of similar incidents in recent years have ended with the endangered animals being beaten to death. ... read more 
Lalitpur, Nepal (AFP) July 5, 2009Every year, Nepalese rice farmer Ratnakaji Maharjan celebrates the arrival of the monsoon rains by attending a centuries-old festival in this historic town near Kathmandu. The annual event, in which a huge chariot said to carry the Hindu rain god Machchindra Nath is pulled through the streets of Lalitpur, draws crowds from across the Kathmandu Valley to celebrate and pray for a good monsoon. ... more
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Washington (AFP) July 2, 2009White House National Security Adviser James Jones has warned US commanders in Afghanistan that they will not receive more troops beyond those already promised by President Barack Obama. "There was talk about... coming in with more requests," Jones told McClatchy, the parent company of a group of US newspapers, on Wednesday following a tour in Pakistan, India and Afghanistan. However, he ... more  
Moscow (AFP) July 2, 2009Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday urged officials to speed up repairs of a Soviet-era aircraft carrier to be ready for delivery to India. "We must finish it and sell it. Anything else would set a very poor precedent," Medvedev was quoted by news agencies as saying on a visit to the Sevmash shipyard on the White Sea in Russia's northern town of Severodvisnk. Last year, India ... more  
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jul 03, 2009From the streets of New York City to the rivers in India to the glaciers in South America, humans are warming the planet by emitting more and more greenhouse gasses. In a study published in Nature last year, scientists for the first time linked the effects of climate change specifically to human activity. "We're beginning to get the picture that climate change, influenced by humans, is ... more  
Dhaka (AFP) July 2, 2009Police in southeastern Bangladesh arrested a man Thursday for beating an endangered Bengal tiger to death after it strayed into a village, a forest official said. The tiger had entered the village in Satkhira, which is close to the border with India, and residents beat it with sticks because they feared for their lives, the head official for the Sundarbans mangrove forest told AFP. ... more |
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Bonn, Germany (SPX) Jun 29, 2009The image, taken by the German radar satellite TerraSAR-X, shows the volcano 'Piton de la Fournaise' (Furnace Peak) in the south of the island of La Reunion (Indian Ocean). This is the last active volcano on the island and is 2631 metres high. By means of very precise repeat-pass interferometric measurements, TerraSAR-X is able to detect even small movements of the Earth's surface, thus ... more  
Patna, India (AFP) June 29, 2009At least 35 people including eight children were killed after they were struck by lightning in the adjoining eastern Indian states of Bihar and Jharkhand, officials said Monday. Around 18 people were killed late Sunday by bolts of lightning across Bihar, including six children, State Disaster Management Minister Devesh Chand Thakur said. "The children were playing in the pre-monsoon show ... more  
New Delhi (AFP) June 27, 2009New Delhi residents faced misery on Saturday as the Indian capital reeled under one of its worst power and water shortages in years, during an acute heatwave and a delayed rainy season. The city's power grid has been stretched thin, with demand at its highest ever as the worst-hit areas have suffered outages of up to 10 hours over the past few days. The power cuts also affected water ... more  
Berlin (AFP) June 25, 2009Delegates from over 80 countries pledging to destroy their cluster bombs started a two-day conference in Berlin on Thursday to assess progress since a 2008 agreement banning the weapons. Absent however were United States, Israel, Russia and Georgia -- countries which have used cluster bombs in recent years and which refuse to sign up the agreement. China, India and Pakistan also stayed away. ... more |
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Bangladesh's tigers stalk uncertain future in Sundarbans
More Nepalis drive electric, evading global fuel shocks
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