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Life Can Be Resilience In Face Of Future Global WarmingUniversity Park PA (SPX) Feb 18, 2010 University Park PA (SPX) Feb 18, 2010 Penn State researchers and their international collaborators have discovered a diversity of corals harboring unusual species of symbiotic algae in the warm waters of the Andaman Sea in the northeastern Indian Ocean. "The existence of so many novel coral symbioses thriving in a place that is too warm for most corals gives us hope that coral reefs and the ecosystems they support may persist - at least in some places - in the face of global warming," said the te ... read more |
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Beijing (AFP) Feb 14, 2010When China won the right to stage the Olympic Games, it promised the event would bring significant human rights improvements. But since Beijing hosted the world in August 2008, the ruling Communist Party has launched a sustained crackdown on dissent which experts say is driven by fear of social unrest and growing concern about the power of the Internet. Violent unrest in restive Tibet an ... more 
Washington (AFP) Feb 13, 2010The United States has escalated a mounting row on multiple fronts with China, refusing Beijing's demand to cancel President Barack Obama's meeting next week with the Dalai Lama. The deepening public spat over Tibet, a row over US arms sales to Taiwan, China's dispute with Google and trade and currency disagreements, come at a key diplomatic moment, as Obama seeks Chinese help to toughen sanc ... more  
New Delhi (UPI) Feb 11, 2009 India's nuclear delivery capability received a boost with the successful test-firing of an Agni III missile with a range of more than 1,800 miles. The missile was launched in mid-morning this week from the test facility on Wheeler Island, 6 miles off the country's east coast in the Bay of Bengal and about 90 miles from Bhubaneshwar, the capital city of Orissa state. Wheeler Island is ju ... more |
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Somalis flee as Islamists hit capitalMogadishu, Somalia (UPI) Feb 11, 2009 Large numbers of Islamist insurgents were reported to be pouring into Somalia's war-ravaged capital in what appeared to be a bid to pre-empt a much-anticipated offensive against them by the shaky Transitional Federal Government and its allies. As thousands of civilians fled the Indian Ocean port city, the Islamists of the al-Shebab militia linked to al-Qaida warned neighboring Kenya, which backs the TFG, not to aid the big push the governments says it has been planning. The Kenyan govern ... read more |
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