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| January 08, 2014 |
 Over 350 sick in Japan after eating pesticide-tainted food: NHK Tokyo (AFP) Jan 07, 2014 - More than 350 people across Japan have fallen ill after eating pesticide-contaminated frozen food produced by the nation's largest seafood firm, national broadcaster NHK said Tuesday. People have reported vomiting, diarrhoea and other symptoms of food poisoning after eating products including pizza and lasagne made by a subsidiary of Maruha Nichiro Holdings, according to surveys carried out ... more |  |
 Philippine inflation jumps following Haiyan Manila (AFP) Jan 07, 2014 - Devastation caused by Super Typhoon Haiyan pushed inflation in the Philippines to a two-year high of 4.1 percent in December, the government said Tuesday. Economic Planning Secretary Arsenio Balisacan said major food items rose across the board, especially in storm-hit areas. Haiyan lashed the central Philippines in November, leaving 8,000 people dead and missing and more than four milli ... more |  |
 Mine spill causes 'extensive pollution' in Kruger Park river Johannesburg (AFP) Jan 07, 2014 - South African authorities revealed Tuesday that a phosphate mine spillage has caused "extensive pollution" to a river in the country's famed Kruger National Park. Park officials said "highly acidic water" from a dam at the Bosveld phosphate mine spilled into a tributary of the Olifants River, killing thousands of fish. "It's extensive pollution given the number of fish we have witnessed ... more |  |
 Japan whalers driven from hunting ground: Sea Shepherd Sydney (AFP) Jan 07, 2014 - Anti-whaling activists Sea Shepherd on Tuesday said Japan's fleet had been separated and driven out of its Antarctic hunting ground, declaring an early success in its campaign to disrupt the annual hunt. The militant group said the five-vessel fleet was "in disarray" and currently not hunting whales, with the harpoon ships separated from each other by hundreds of miles and the factory ship N ... more |  |
'Village of Widows' determined to rebuild in India flood disaster Deoli, India (AFP) Jan 07, 2014 - Cradling her newborn daughter at her home in a remote valley in the Indian Himalayas, Dhanita Devi tells of her determination to fight for her family's survival. Devi's husband was killed, along with thousands of others, when flash floods and landslides tore through the mountains of northern Uttarakhand state in June. Devi, 22, was left alone, with no income and few savings, to provide f ... more |  |
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 Partnership brings clean water to communities in Haiti, Peru Lima (UPI) Jan 6, 2013 - An international partnership forged in the United States is bringing clean water to underprivileged communities in Haiti and Peru and further afield in Malawi, Africa. Oregon solar manufacturer SolarWorld said it teamed up with Rotary International and Water Missions International non-profit organization to cater for clean water needs of thousands of inhabitants in impoverished Haiti an ... more |  |
 Niger's giraffe population on the rise again Niamey (AFP) Jan 07, 2014 - The small number of surviving giraffes in western Africa is on the rise again, after 366 were counted in southwest Niger in 2012, up from 311 the previous year, official figures published Tuesday showed. The latest figure includes 177 males and 189 females, said Niger's ASGN department for the environment and preservation of giraffes. ASGN, which cooperates closely with a zoo in the nort ... more |  |
 Arctic air brings record cold to huge swath of US Chicago (AFP) Jan 07, 2014 - A blast of bone-chilling cold snarled air travel, closed schools and prompted calls Tuesday for people to stay inside in the United States and Canada, as temperatures plunged to lows not seen in two decades. Superlatives of cold-talk abounded, even in midwestern states used to chest-high snow and bitter cold, as the National Weather Service said the deep freeze was making its way east. A ... more |  |
 Trapped ships break through Antarctic ice Beijing (AFP) Jan 07, 2014 - Two ships - a Chinese icebreaker and a Russian research vessel - broke free Tuesday from thick Antarctic ice where they had been trapped for days. China's Xue Long, which became stuck after rescuing passengers from the Russian vessel, "pulled free of the ice and navigated into the open waters", the official Xinhua news agency reported from on board. State broadcaster China Central Tele ... more |  |
Arctic air brings record cold to huge swath of US Chicago (AFP) Jan 06, 2014 - Dangerously cold arctic air swept across a huge swath of the United States on Monday, making travel treacherous, forcing schools to close and prompting officials to plead with residents to stay indoors. A shift in a weather pattern known as the "polar vortex" triggered a drastic drop in temperatures to lows not seen in two decades, and coincided with wind chill warnings in much of the east o ... more |  |
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Sub-zero arctic blast strikes US New York (AFP) Jan 06, 2014 - Millions of people across the United States on Monday braced for a "life-threatening" bitter Arctic blast that could send temperatures plummeting to their coldest in 20 years. The northeastern United States and parts of Canada have endured heavy snow and deadly sub-zero conditions since the start of the year, but the deep freeze is now moving through much of the country east of the Rocky Mou ... more |  |
 14 killed in China mosque stampede: Xinhua Beijing (AFP) Jan 06, 2014 - Fourteen people, some of them children, were killed and 10 injured in a stampede that broke out as food was being distributed at a mosque in China's Ningxia region, state media reported Monday. The stampede occurred at lunchtime on Sunday while traditional food items were being handed out to people attending an event to commemorate a late religious leader, the official Xinhua news agency sai ... more |  |
 Weakened 'polar vortex' blamed for N. American chill Paris (AFP) Jan 06, 2014 - The bitter chill gripping North America is a result of Arctic air that has spilled southwards, and global warming may be a cause, an expert said on Monday. Arctic air is normally penned in at the roof of the world by a powerful circular wind called the polar vortex, said Dim Coumou, a senior scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) near Berlin. When the vortex ... more |  |
Sea Shepherd catches Japanese fleet, four whales dead Sydney (AFP) Jan 06, 2014 - Militant anti-whaling activists Sea Shepherd said they had zeroed in on a Japanese fleet Monday and captured evidence that four whales had been slaughtered, alleging the ships were found inside a Southern Ocean sanctuary. Sea Shepherd said it had located all five Japanese vessels and was now in pursuit, forcing the harpooners to cut short their operation and retreat. The group released f ... more |  |
Wave sweeps three family members out to sea in Spain Madrid (AFP) Jan 07, 2014 - Rescuers found the body of a man Tuesday on Spain's northwestern coast where three members of the same family were swept out to sea by a huge wave while reportedly scattering the ashes of a dead relative. Police found the body on a beach on the rocky coast of Valdovino in Galicia, police said in a message on their Twitter account. Spanish media said the man was a 67-year-old who was swep ... more |  |
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Classes reopen in Philippine typhoon zone Tacloban, Philippines (AFP) Jan 06, 2014 - Schools reopened Monday in badly damaged central Philippine towns for the first time since one of the world's strongest storms ever to hit land killed thousands two months ago. Crowding into makeshift classrooms built from tarpaulins and plywood, the children - many of them still traumatised - sat quietly as teachers tried to engage them in friendly banter. Mothers refused to leave the ... more |  |
 Gunmen kill two soldiers in troubled Mexican state Morelia, Mexico (AFP) Jan 06, 2014 - Gunmen ambushed a military patrol in western Mexico, killing two soldiers in a tense state gripped by a standoff between a drug cartel and vigilantes, a prosecutor said Monday. The attack compounded a tense weekend in Michoacan after self-defense forces seized another town, buses were burned and their most prominent leader was injured in a plane crash. The soldiers were on patrol Sunday ... more |  |
China crushes six tonnes of ivory: state media Beijing (AFP) Jan 06, 2014 - China crushed a pile of ivory reportedly weighing more than six tonnes on Monday, in a landmark event aimed at shedding its image as a global hub for the illegal trade in African elephant tusks. Clouds of dust emerged as masked workers fed tusks into crushing machines in what was described as the first public destruction of ivory in China. The event in the southern city of Dongguan was " ... more |  |
 French interior minister seeks to ban controversial comedian's tour Paris (UPI) Jan 7, 2013 - French Interior Minister Manuel Valls has reiterated his determination to ban an upcoming nationwide tour by controversial comedian Dieudonne M'Bala M'Bala. Valls told the Journal Du Dimanche Sunday he is sending background "circulars" to local authorities in French cities where the comic is scheduled to appear this week as part of effort to enforce anti-hate speech judgements against h ... more |  |
Chinese state TV eyes Tiananmen rocker for gala: manager Beijing (AFP) Jan 06, 2014 - China's state broadcaster has invited rock singer Cui Jian - an inspiration for 1980s pro-democracy protesters - to perform at its annual new year gala, his manager said Monday. "We have some details we are working on" ahead of Cui's possible appearance at the annual Spring Festival Gala on state broadcaster CCTV, which has an audience of hundreds of millions, his manager You You told AFP ... more |  |
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