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 Mumbai (AFP) July 8, 2009 
India's financial and entertainment capital is facing a 30 percent cut in water supplies, despite an overnight deluge of monsoon rains on Wednesday that left some streets and homes flooded. The civic authorities in Mumbai introduced the reduction on Tuesday as levels ran "precariously low" at the six lakes that supply the city's 18 million population with 3.3 billion litres ... read more 
L'Aquila, Italy (AFP) July 8, 2009Major polluting nations watered down their ambitions to tackle global warming at a G8 summit in Italy on Wednesday despite growing pressure to set tough targets to cut pollution. The Group of Eight leading industrialised nations and other major economies -- including China and India -- dropped a pledge to halve global greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, a European Union official said. ... more
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Jerusalem (AFP) July 6, 2009Israel has dropped out of a multi-billion dollar joint venture with a Swedish firm to develop new fighter jets for India because of US pressure, a newspaper reported on Monday. Israel Aerospace Industries was planning to develop a new model of the Swedish-made Gripen fighter jet with its manufacturer, Saab, to compete in a tender to sell the planes to India's armed forces, the Jerusalem ... more 
New Delhi (AFP) July 6, 2009India on Monday confirmed a huge increase in military spending and offered sweeping benefits to the police, linking the ongoing drive to ramp up national security to economic development. Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee hiked the defence budget for the financial year to March 2010 by 24 percent to 1.42 trillion rupees (28.4 billion dollars) to partly fund a programme to modernise India's ... more  
Kathmandu (AFP) July 6, 2009Hundreds of Tibetans gathered in the Nepalese capital to mark the Dalai Lama's 74th birthday on Monday, a day after the government said it would not tolerate anti-China activities on its soil. More than 1,000 Tibetan exiles took part in the celebration, held under a heavy police presence at a huge Buddhist stupa on the outskirts of Kathmandu, an AFP photographer said. Nepal is home to ... more  
Paris (UPI) Jul 6, 2009 This week's G8 summit looks like the last of its kind, as its role as a forum for world governance is overtaken by the newer G20 grouping, which claims greater legitimacy by including the main emerging economies like China, India and Brazil. Indeed, the second day of this year's G8 meeting in Italy, amid the symbolic but only half-repaired ruins of the earthquake that hit the small town ... 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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Bangladesh's tigers stalk uncertain future in Sundarbans
More Nepalis drive electric, evading global fuel shocks
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