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• Dolphin hunting protests at Japanese embassy in Britain

  - 2008-09-03

  LONDON AFP — Environmental campaigners demonstrated outside the Japanese embassy here Wednesday against what they called the country's "appallingly cruel" hunting of dolphins. Campaign groups claim Japan kills 20,000 small whales, dolphins and porpoises for food each year in hunts which receive far less attention than the country's highly...

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• Bush in storm-hit Louisiana, evacuees trickle home

  - 2008-09-03

  NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana AFP — President George W. Bush toured storm-scarred Louisiana Wednesday to survey damage from Hurricane Gustav as hundreds of thousands who fled the storm began coming home. Bush, whose response to devastating Katrina in 2005 drew harsh criticism, came to the southeastern state a day after...

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• McCain gets Palin family hugs as he arrives for convention

  - 2008-09-03

  ST PAUL, Minnesota AFP — Republican White House hopeful John McCain arrived Wednesday for his nominating convention, to be met by his family and warm hugs from running mate Sarah Palin and her five children. In a choreographed show of unity, McCain reserved his biggest welcome for Palin's pregnant...

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• Legal challenge to French warship dismantling in Britain

  - 2008-09-03

  LONDON AFP — Environmental campaigners said Wednesday they would go to the courts in a bid to stop an asbestos-contaminated French aircraft carrier from being broken up in Britain. The 32,700-tonne Clemenceau, once the pride of the French navy, has spent the past five years being moved around the...

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• McCain gets Palin family hugs in convention city

  - 2008-09-03

  MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota AFP — Republican White House hopeful John McCain arrived Wednesday for his nominating convention, to be met by his family and warm hugs from running mate Sarah Palin and her five children. In a choreographed show of unity, McCain reserved his biggest welcome for Palin's pregnant teenage...

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• Schaeffler holds 48% of tyre-maker Continental

  - 2008-09-02

  FRANKFURT AFP — The German auto and aerospace parts group Schaeffler said Tuesday it now owns 48.32 percent of its much larger rival Continental, for which Schaeffler offered 75 dollars (109 dollars) per share last month. Schaeffler said 40.26 percent of the shares in Continental had been tendered in...

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• The bar that defied Katrina defies Hurricane Gustav

  - 2008-09-02

  NEW ORLEANS AFP — Johnny White's, the New Orleans bar that famously stayed open during Hurricane Katrina, was on Monday full of customers who chose to stay for a stiff drink instead of fleeing as Hurricane Gustav struck the region. "We never close," proudly reads a sign inside the...

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• Coca-Cola to buy China juice maker for $2.4bln

  - 2008-09-02

  SHANGHAI AFP — US soft drinks giant Coca-Cola said Wednesday it planned to buy Chinese juice maker Huiyuan Juice Group in a 2.4-billion-dollar deal that would be its biggest acquisition in China. Coca-Cola will offer 12.20 Hong Kong dollars (1.6 US dollars) per share in Hong Kong-listed Huiyuan, it...

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• India struggles to cope with massive flood catastrophe

  - 2008-09-01

  MADHEPURA, India, Sept 1, 2008 AFP — At least half a million people have been left stranded in northern India without food or water, two weeks after a river changed course swamping hundreds of villages, officials said Monday. Tens of thousands of survivors packed overcrowded relief camps as tensions...

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• Egypt police find huge weapons cache in Sinai

  - 2008-09-01

  CAIRO AFP — Egyptian police on Monday found a large cache of weapons in the Sinai desert during a routine patrol of the area, a security official said. Police found "171 mortar shells, anti-tank and anti-personnel grenades, 29 shells, 212 anti-tank projectiles as well as a number of detonators,"...

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