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Indian floods kill threatened rhinosGuwahati, India (AFP) July 9, 2012 Devastating floods in northeast India have killed around 600 animals in the region's largest wildlife park, including more than a dozen threatened one-horned rhinos, officials said Monday. "Most of the animals either drowned or were mown down by speeding vehicles when they tried to flee the heavy flooding," said S.K. Bora, director of 430-square-kilometre (165-square-mile) Kaziranga National Park in Assam state. "The water level is now receding, but the vast majority of animals that fled the par ... read more |
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 Northeast India floods kill 121, displace 6 million The death toll from heavy monsoon rains which have caused massive flooding in India's northeast has risen to more than 120, with six million forced to flee their homes, officials said Saturday. ... more | .. |
  UN soldier dies as DR Congo rebels take Uganda border post A UN soldier from India was killed in clashes between renegade soldiers and DR Congo troops on the border with Uganda, the United Nations said Friday as the mutineers took a key border post. ... more | .. |
  Clean cookstoves unaffordable to Bangladeshi women Women in rural Bangladesh prefer inexpensive, traditional stoves for cooking over modern ones despite significant health risks, according to a Yale study in the Proceedings of the National Academy o ... more | .. |
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  Heat wave in US puts damper on Fourth of July festivities Sizzling heat persisted over much of the United States on Tuesday on the eve of the Fourth of July, prompting many communities to rethink or cancel their festivities on the US national holiday. ... more | .. |
  War-related climate change would reduce substantially reduce crop yields Though worries about "nuclear winter" have faded since the end of the Cold War, existing stockpiles of nuclear weapons still hold the potential for devastating global impacts. Researchers at the Uni ... more | .. |
  India's monsoon seen picking up after slow start India's crucial monsoon rains should pick up in July after a slow start over vast swathes of the country, which has threatened crops from rice to sugar, forecasters said. ... more | .. |
Northeast India floods kill 79, displace two million At least 79 people have died and 2.2 million forced to leave their homes over the last week as torrential monsoon rains triggered floods across India's northeast, officials said Monday. ... more |
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 Floods swamp eastern India, 1.3 million displaced Torrential monsoon rains triggered floods which swamped villages in eastern India and forced at least 1.3 million people to leave their homes for higher ground, officials said Friday. ... more | .. |
  Sri Lanka troops join battle against dengue fever Thousands of Sri Lankan troops Friday joined a massive clean up operation to eliminate mosquito-breeding grounds as part of a national effort to contain the dengue virus, officials said. ... more | .. |
  Indian Navy tests out new trump card The Indian Navy's new aircraft carrier Vikramaditya - formerly the Soviet heavy aircraft cruiser Admiral Gorshkov - is undergoing tests in the White Sea. The ship is to return to India by the end of ... more | .. |
  Crisis time nears for India's cadet pilots India's air force faces a pilot training crisis in two years unless Hindustan Aeronautics delivers its new Intermediate Jet Trainer on time. ... more |
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  India grapples with coal shortages Amid India's ongoing domestic coal shortage, Tata Power, the country's largest private power producer, said it is eyeing coal mines abroad for fuel security. ... more | .. |
  Heavy rains, landslides kill 94 in Bangladesh More than 90 people have been killed in landslides in southeast Bangladesh after three days of rains that triggered flash floods and severed transport links, officials said Wednesday. ... more | .. |
 High levels of lead found in Indian Ocean U.S. researchers say they have discovered high concentrations of lead in the Indian Ocean despite leaded gasoline having been slowly phased out worldwide. ... more | .. |
  Apple launches iTunes Store in 12 new Asia markets Apple launched its iTunes Store in 12 Asian markets on Wednesday, giving consumers access to millions of songs and movies, but regional giants China, India and Indonesia were not on the list. ... more |
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NASA advances space based tracking of marine debris
Trump-era trade stress leads Western powers to China
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 Dalai Lama visits scene of Italy quakes The Dalai Lama visited emergency camps in northeast Italy housing thousands of people who were hit by two deadly earthquakes in May, Italian media reported on Sunday. ... more | .. |
  Immolations expression of freedom: Tibet's exiled PM Tibet's exiled political leader Lobsang Sangay on Tuesday said a spate of self-immolations in China was a strong message being sent by oppressed and desperate people who want to assert their freedom. ... more | .. |
  VP Biden says Romney good at creating jobs -- in China Vice President Joe Biden kept the pressure on Mitt Romney's White House bid Tuesday, lampooning the Republican as an expert at job creation - in rival China and growing economic power India. ... more | .. |
  India readies upgrade of 'world's cheapest' tablet India is set to release an upgrade of its ultra-low-cost computer tablet, the 40-dollar "Aakash-2", after the first edition was criticised for its quality and distribution. ... more |
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 Obama mocks Romney over 'outsourcing' row President Barack Obama Monday mocked attempts by his rival Mitt Romney's campaign to shrug off reports the Republican's former firm helped ship US jobs to places like India and China. ... more | .. |
  Walker's World: How does Turkey do it? As the economies of Europe, China, India and the United States all slow at once, how does Turkey do it? How does this country, poised at the intersections of Europe, Asia and the Middle East, grow its economy last year at close to 10 percent, lower its trade deficit and get its sovereign debt upgraded by Moody's? ... more | .. |
  U.S. approves Nevada solar facility The U.S. Department of Interior has approved the first utility-scale solar energy project for development on American Indian tribal lands. ... more | .. |
Two Tibetans set themselves alight in China Two young Tibetans in a remote area of northwest China set themselves alight, state media and a rights group said Thursday, in the latest such protest against Chinese rule. ... more |
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  Nepal launches drones to combat poachers Conservationists in Nepal are to send drone aircraft into the skies in the battle to save the Himalayan nation's endangered tigers and rhinos from poachers. ... more | .. |
 Rio+20: Maldives to create world's biggest marine reserve The Indian Ocean archipelago of the Maldives announced at the Rio+20 summit here Wednesday it would create the world's biggest marine reserve to protect its fisheries and biodiversity. ... more | .. |
 Rwanda's ex-army boss testifies of betrayal in murder bid Former Rwandan army chief Faustin Nyamwasa took the stand Wednesday in the trial of six men accused of trying to kill him, detailing how his trusted driver had turned against him. ... more | .. |
  From pomegranate peel to nanoparticles Food waste is a growing problem in many parts of the world, but discarded fruit peel, in the case of pomegranates, could be put to good use in the burgeoning field of nanotechnology according to res ... more |
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  China, India step up global role with fund After years of pressure to take a greater role in global affairs, China and India have stepped up by contributing to a new IMF emergency fund - from which the United States is absent. ... more | .. |
  China, India challenge US monopoly on AMD, satellite defense Development of antimissile and anti-satellite systems is not the prerogative of the United States or Russia. Many other countries, however, like China, Israel and India are developing such systems. ... more | .. |
  Taliban praises India for U.S. resistance The Afghan Taliban has praised India as a "significant country" in Asia and for what it called New Delhi's resistance to U.S. calls for greater military involvement in Afghanistan. ... more | .. |
  Nearly 15 million people displaced by disasters in 2011 Floods, storms, earthquakes and a tsunami displaced 14.9 million people last year, 89 percent of them in Asia, according to an estimate by two Norwegian-backed agencies issued here Tuesday. ... more |
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