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Landslides kill 100, strand thousands in Bangladesh, MyanmarYangon (AFP) June 17, 2010 Rescue workers were scrambling to provide aid to tens of thousands left homeless in western Myanmar and neighbouring Bangladesh Thursday after flash floods and landslides killed 100 people. At least 46 were left dead as bridges and homes were damaged after record rainfall of more than 13 inches (33 centimetres) Wednesday in parts of Rakhine State in military-ruled Myanmar, the New Light of Myanmar newspaper said. In Bangladesh, 55 people were killed on Wednesday after the worst rains in decades ... read more |
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Isle De Jean Charles, Louisiana (AFP) June 10, 2010With oil now coating their coastal salt marshes, the Cajun Indians who have lived off the Louisiana bayou for generations fear the black tide will destroy their homes, their livelihood and their very culture. It is a simple life, but a good one, they say. People work hard and come home to big pots of spicy gumbo or boiled crab. They share what they catch and cook with the cousins, and au ... more  
Durham NC (SPX) Jun 10, 2010A new study pinpoints the genetic changes that enable Tibetans to thrive at altitudes where others get sick. In the online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, an international team has identified a gene that allows Tibetans to live and work more than two miles above sea level without getting altitude sickness. A previous study published May 13 in Science repor ... more  
Umm Qasr, Iraq (AFP) June 9, 2010At Iraq's southernmost tip, windswept sands and oppressive heat greeted a once-familiar visitor - a French naval vessel, making port in the country for the first time in 32 years. The FS Commandant Ducuing, which typically covers the Indian Ocean, the Red Sea and along the shores of the Arabian Peninsula, on Tuesday docked at the Iraqi port of Umm Qasr for a two-day goodwill visit as part o ... more |
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Mexico: Don't give up on CancunBonn, Germany (UPI) Jun 9, 2010 Warnings from representatives from the major economies that the U.N. climate change summit in Cancun won't produce a successful outcome have angered Mexican officials. "It is irresponsible and contrary to common objective to say that we can't achieve something in Cancun," Luis Alfonso de Alba, Mexico's ambassador for climate change, was quoted as saying by India's Economic Times. "The second mistake is to say that what we can't achieve in Cancun will happen in South Africa." The global ... read more |
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