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Madagascar has signed a series of environment agreements to protect unique forests and support local communities as part of a commitment by the government to ramp up environmental protection on the Indian Ocean island.
In its largest ever debt-for-...
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Environmentalists in Kenya are worried that an insecticide is being used by farmers to kill lions and other predators.
Carbofuran is a very powerful and toxic insecticide......
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Immigration officers in Sierra Leone have started a manhunt for illegal immigrants living in the country.
Chief immigration officer Alpha Kolifa Koroma......
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Sudan's national airline has been banned from flying for a month for failing to comply with aviation rules.
Sudan Airways has been told that it will not be allowed......
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US lawmakers have passed a bill to shield telephone companies who helped in the White House's controversial warrantless wiretaps programme.
The bill also grants the US government the power to continue with its warrantless surveillance scheme.
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Officials in the US state of Massachusetts are investigating how 17 teenage girls from the same school have become pregnant. The number is four ...
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Rapper 50 Cent has been told by a New York judge to surrender any guns he might have after an ex-girlfriend obtained a restraining order. The order bars the performer, ...
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The US has agreed not to export beef to South Korea from cattle older than 30 months in an effort to allay South Korean concerns over meat safety. Both sides say the deal was reached during talks in Washington between top South Korean and US trade offic...
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At least 17 people have died and many more are missing after Typhoon Fengshen hit the southern Philippines. This caused flash floods and landslides. ...
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Former Cuban President Fidel Castro has lashed out at the EU's decision to lift sanctions against his country, calling it "an enormous hypocrisy". He said the move was "disparaging" because it was conditioned on human rights progress in Cuba. The ai...
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Five new high-speed main lines crossing the length and breadth of the UK may be built, Network Rail says. The network operator will announce on Monday it......
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Try as they might to talk about other pressing issues, EU leaders kept bumping into the elephant in the room - the Lisbon Treaty. Last year's German......
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EU leaders have admitted that the Czech Republic may not be able to ratify the Lisbon Treaty, which has already been rejected by the Irish....
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Several thousand protesters have converged on government offices in the Thai capital Bangkok. They demanded that the government step down. ...
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More than 1,000 people detained after protests in Tibet earlier this year have now been freed. Chinese media reported today... ...
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Three men have reportedly posed as terrorists and tried to extort more than $300,000 (£150,000). They have been arrested in the Chinese city of Qingdao. ...
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Australia's parliament has opened with an Aboriginal welcome, ahead of an apology for past wrongs inflicted on the country's indigenous community. In a special ceremony, an Aboriginal elder handed a symbolic message stick to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd. ...
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The Australian of the year 2007, environmentalist Tim Flannery, once predicted that Perth in Western Australia.
He could become the world's first ghost metropolis... ...
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Australia's diplomatic march into Asia is continuing, with its latest achievement being a historic security pact with Japan.
The agreement is seen ......
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A week to the day after two surf life savers had been assaulted in what was believed to be an unprovoked attack.
Suspicions lie with a...
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