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 Luxembourg (AFP) Oct 20, 2009 
European fisheries ministers have agreed on tighter controls for commercial fishing, which could see fishermen lose their license and financial assistance if they infringe rules. The new measures, most of which should be in place from January 1, are an attempt to counter depleting fish stocks and recurrent breaches of catch quotas. "Until now fishermen could infringe rules ... read more 
Geneva (AFP) Oct 20, 2009The UN warned on Tuesday that flash floods could hit East Africa over the coming months and deal a devastating blow to hundreds of thousands of people who are already reeling from severe drought. The UN's humanitarian coordination office predicted that the El Nino climate pattern in the Pacific basin could trigger heavy rain in the Horn of Africa after the region was hit one of the worst ... more
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Heavy rain, snow disrupts transport in Spain Washington slaps fee on plastic shopping bags Vietnam says parched Red River at record low Philippine volcano darkens New Year for 50,000 villagers Shocked residents survey Australia wildfire wreckage Honduras declares state of emergency amid drought Residents flee terrifying Australian wildfires Sarkozy scrambles to salvage carbon tax Thrill-seeking tourists flock to Philippine volcano 
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Stockholm, Sweden (SPX) Oct 21, 2009Alfa Laval has received an order from PetroVietnam Group. The order value is about SEK 100 million and includes equipment and engineering solutions to an ethanol production plant in central Vietnam. Delivery is scheduled for 2010. Alfa Laval's heat exchangers, decanters and tank cleaning equipment will be used in the starch-based fermentation, distillation and dehydration processes of the ... more  
Huntsville AL (SPX) Oct 20, 2009The Orionid meteor shower peaks this week and it could be a very good show. "Earth is passing through a stream of debris from Halley's Comet, the source of the Orionids," says Bill Cooke of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office. "Flakes of comet dust hitting the atmosphere should give us dozens of meteors per hour." The best time to look is before sunrise on Wednesday, Oct. 21st. That's when ... more 
Grimsby, Canada (SPX) Oct 20, 2009When Tony Garchinski heard a loud crash just after 9 p.m. on Friday, September 25 he didn't think much of it. That is, until he awoke the next morning to find the windshield of his mom's Nissan Pathfinder with a huge crack in it. Making note of the 'unusual' rocks he later found on the car's hood, Garchinski chalked the incident up to vandalism and filed a police report. It wasn't until ... more |
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Abu Ghraib, Iraq (AFP) Oct 18, 2009Iraq's once-flourishing honey industry is struggling to revive itself, hit by long-term environmental degradation and six years of unrest that followed the 2003 US-led invasion. "Honey production has fallen by almost half since the 1980s," when output of the prized sweet reached a peak of 80 tonnes a year, said sector specialist Kamila Mohammed, a lecturer at the faculty of Agriculture in Ba ... more  
Amsterdam (AFP) Oct 18, 2009About a hundred houses float on a lake in the Amsterdam neighbourhood of Ijburg -- a testament to how the Dutch are trying to turn their traditional enemy, water, into an ally against overcrowding. "There is a lot of water in the Netherlands, it is used for navigation and recreation. We want to see if it can also be inhabited," Ton van Namen, director of real estate company Monteflore, told ... more 
Johannesburg (AFP) Oct 16, 2009Brazil topped an anti-hunger scorecard on Friday followed by China where 58 million people have more to eat but India earned low marks in a new ActionAid index. The study, released on World Food Day, scores the efforts by 50 governments to fight hunger, with calls for more action with more than one billion people in the world already going hungry. "Some of the poorest countries in the wo ... more |
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