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Death toll from northwest China quake reaches nearly 2,700Beijing (AFP) May 31, 2010 The death toll from an earthquake that rocked a remote part of China in April has risen to nearly 2,700, with 270 people still listed as missing, state media reported Monday. The 6.9-magnitude quake struck on April 14, flattening thousands of homes in the ethnically Tibetan region of Yushu in Qinghai province, in the country's northwest. The death toll of 2,698 was up sharply from the just over 2,200 reported dead in late April. It was not immediately clear how the toll was calculated, but e ... read more |
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Tehran (UPI) May 21, 2010 As Iran braces for a new round of U.N. sanctions over its contentious nuclear program, Pakistan has called on longtime rival India to sign on to a planned $7.6 billion natural gas pipeline from the Islamic Republic. After a two-year lull, New Delhi, a U.S. ally, has signaled it's ready to resume talks on the long-delayed project that Washington bitterly opposes because it will throw Ir ... more  
New York (AFP) May 20, 2010Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama said Thursday that he is a Marxist, yet credits capitalism for bringing new freedoms to the communist country that exiled him - China. "Still I am a Marxist," the exiled Tibetan Buddhist leader said in New York, where he arrived with an entourage of robed monks and a heavy security detail to give a series of paid public lectures. Marxism has "mora ... more  
West Lafayette IN (SPX) May 21, 2010Indiana and Illinois may experience severe droughts in the future, but they'll be few and far between, according to a Purdue University study. Keith Cherkauer, an assistant professor of agricultural and biological engineering, and Vimal Mishra, Cherkauer's graduate student, used historical data from the National Climate Data Center to model the likelihood of future droughts in the two stat ... more |
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NASA's Aqua Satellite Sees Tropical Storm 1B Form In Bay Of BengalGreenbelt MD (SPX) May 19, 2010 The first tropical storm of the Northern Indian Ocean cyclone season has formed and NASA's Aqua satellite captured its birth. Tropical Storm 1B formed in the early morning hours as the convection around the low level circulation center increased since May 17. NASA's Aqua satellite captured a visible image of 1B from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) at 7:25 UTC (12:25 p.m. Asia/Kolkata time), May 18, where if formed off of India's east coast in the Bay of Bengal. At 0 ... read more |
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