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India seeks extradition of US boss over Bhopal disasterNew Delhi (AFP) June 21, 2010 India is to push the US to extradite the American former boss of the company blamed for the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster, as part of a new government response to the accident, a minister said Monday. Under fire for the slow pace of justice and inadequate clean-up of the site of the disaster, the world's worst industrial accident, the government created a panel of senior ministers to draw up recommendations for fresh action. The panel, whose advice will now be handed to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, ... read more |
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Cox'S Bazaar, Bangladesh (AFP) June 15, 2010At least 42 people have been killed by landslides and flash floods in southeastern Bangladesh and dozens more are missing, police and local officials said Tuesday. The flood warning centre said most of the southeast had experienced heavy rainfall during the past 24 hours, with 24.2 centimetres (9.5 inches) falling in many areas. In the worst affected area of Teknaf - which is on the bor ... more  
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jun 16, 2010Around 12,000 years ago, the Earth spun into The Big Freeze, a (geologically) brief cold snap known as the Younger Dryas event. Glaciers returned to parts of the Northern Hemisphere and humans who were around then probably shivered quite a bit. The Clovis people in North American, the first paleo-Indian inhabitants that made distinctive bone and ivory tools, took a population nosedive. Wha ... more  
La Paz, Bolivia (UPI) Jun 15, 2010 Bolivia's plans to exploit its iron ore reserves in a test run for similar deals on lithium, uranium and other minerals are stalled because of a complex dispute with Indian investors and steelmakers. President Evo Morales wrote tough protective provisions into Bolivia's new constitution to ensure foreign entrepreneurs vying for the country's mineral wealth don't acquire unfair advantage ... more |
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China to spend five billion dollars on quake reconstructionBeijing (AFP) June 14, 2010 China plans to spend five billion dollars on reconstruction work in areas devastated by a deadly earthquake in April, the government said Sunday. A 6.9-magnitude quake struck Yushu county, a largely ethnically Tibetan area in Qinghai province in a remote part of the country's northwest on April 14, killing nearly 2,700 people and flattening thousands of homes. The 32 billion yuan will come from the central budget, with further funding from the Qinghai authorities as well as donations from busine ... read more |
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