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Indian warship foils Somali pirate attack: navyNew Delhi (AFP) Sept 6, 2010 An Indian warship on Sunday foiled an attempt by Somalian pirates to hijack merchant vessels off Somalia's coast in in the Gulf of Aden, a navy spokesman said on Monday. P.V.S. Satish said marine commandos on board the destroyer-class warship boarded a high-speed boat after it tried to close in on 12 merchant vessels including an Indian ship in the piracy-infested waters. The vessel deployed in the Gulf of Eden on an anti-piracy mission since July was escorting the flotilla when the rogue boat w ... read more |
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New Delhi (AFP) Aug 31, 2010Rajendra Pachauri, under harsh scrutiny as head of the UN's top advisory body on climate change, is a 69-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner with a sideline in writing steamy novels. The Indian said late Monday that member nations of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) would have to decide his fate after a damning UN-ordered review into the body's research. But Pachauri, a ... more  
Kathmandu, Nepal (UPI) Aug 31, 2010 Nepal, already struggling with high levels of malnutrition and food insecurity, could see its harvests cut in half this year due to late monsoon rains, the World Food Program says. Of particular concern, said Dominique Hyde, deputy country director of WFP in Nepal, is the mid and far western area of the country, home to 600,000 of the country's estimated 3.6 million people who are consi ... more  
New Delhi (AFP) Aug 31, 2010India on Tuesday said China was demonstrating "more than normal interest" in the Indian Ocean as two Chinese warships made a rare visit to military-ruled Myanmar. India is watchful of China's growing presence in the region, including its major investments in ports being built in Sri Lanka and Pakistan. The Chinese ships docked in Yangon on Sunday afternoon and were set to launch a series ... more |
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Rajendra Pachauri: IPCC chief under scrutinyNew Delhi (AFP) Aug 30, 2010 Rajendra Pachauri, under scrutiny as head of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), is a 69-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner with a sideline in writing steamy novels. Pachauri, a father-of-three with friends in high places in his native India, learnt the results Monday of a five-month review of how the IPCC has performed under his stewardship. He has faced repeated calls to resign, most notably over a false claim in the panel's landmark 2007 Fourth Assessment Report that Him ... read more |
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