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Afghans yearn for water, security in Taliban heartlandPanjwayi District, Afghanistan (AFP) July 26, 2010 Leading a patrol of Canadian soldiers, Sergeant Patrick Hogan inspects a deep well used to irrigate a patchwork of fields on the edge of the desert in southern Afghanistan. "It's good to be nosey," he said. "We've got to know what's normal because what's normal to them isn't necessarily normal to us." An Afghan farmer had risked being shot the previous night after the reconnaissance patrol spotted him working close to a culvert in the road. "The culverts are the problem because they're a ... read more |
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Hong Kong (AFP) July 22, 2010A unit of giant US fund Capital Group said Thursday it had paid 1.63 billion US dollars for a stake in Agricultural Bank of China, after the bank's shares debuted in Hong Kong and Shanghai last week. Capital Research and Management bought 3.93 billion shares of AgBank's Hong Kong-listed shares at an average price of 3.21 Hong Kong dollars (41 US cents), according to a disclosure on Hong Kong ... more  
Uppsala, Sweden (SPX) Jul 22, 2010Much organically bound carbon is deposited on inland lake bottoms. A portion remains in the sediment, sometimes for thousands of years, while the rest is largely broken down to carbon dioxide and methane, which are released into the atmosphere. Swedish researchers have shown that carbon retention by sediment is highly temperature-sensitive and that a warmer climate would result in increase ... more  
Paris, France (ESA) Jul 22, 2010A better understanding of how Earth's ice fields are changing has come another step closer as the first data from ESA's ice mission are released to selected scientists around the world for fine-tuning. This release, which comes just three months after CryoSat-2 was launched, is the first milestone in the scientific exploitation of the mission's data. These data are essential for determinin ... more |
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Jordan River too polluted for baptisms: eco groupJerusalem (AFP) July 21, 2010 An environmental group on Wednesday called for a halt to baptisms in the Jordan River where tradition holds that Jesus was baptised, saying the waters there were dangerously polluted. "Friends of the Earth Middle East call on regional authorities to halt baptism in the lower Jordan River until water quality standards for tourism activities there are met," said a statement from the group. The group issued the call following media reports that Israel's health ministry had urged the tourism ministr ... read more |
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