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- Suspected remains of WWII airman found dangling from trees in PNG
- SYDNEY AFP — Australia's military was Friday making plans to examine the suspected remains of a World War II airman found dangling from trees in a dense Papua New Guinea jungle, a spokesman told AFP. Hikers on the Kokoda Trail, where a bitter World War II battle was fought...
- Research articles 2008-08-28
- Suspected remains of WWII airman found dangling from tree in PNG
- SYDNEY AFP — Australia's military was Friday making plans to examine the suspected remains of a World War II airman found dangling from a canopy of trees in a Papua New Guinea jungle last week, a spokesman told AFP. Hikers on the Kokoda Trail, where a bitter World War...
- Research articles 2008-08-28
- India to train US 'Green Berets' in jungle warfare
- GUWAHATI, India AFP — A contingent of US Special Forces, or Green Berets, will team up with Indian soldiers to train in jungle warfare, officials said on Saturday. The 30-member US team will train in the army-run Counter-Insurgency Jungle Warfare School from August 2 in the rebellion-torn northeastern state...
- Research articles 2008-07-26
- Betancourt vows to not cut hair until FARC frees all hostages
- BOGOTA AFP — Colombian politician and former hostage Ingrid Betancourt vowed in an interview broadcast here late Tuesday not to cut her hair until the FARC rebels in Colombia's jungle free all her fellow captives. Betancourt, who was rescued last week from Colombian Marxist guerrillas after six years in...
- Research articles 2008-07-09
- Freed Betancourt makes radio broadcast to jungle hostages
- PARIS AFP — Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt sent a radio message Sunday to all hostages still in the grips of FARC rebels, as she recovered in Paris from her six-year ordeal, her sister said. Freed from Marxist rebels in Colombia's jungle Wednesday, Betancourt went on Colombian radio to tell...
- Research articles 2008-07-06
- US denies ransom payout for hostage release: ambassador
- BOGOTA AFP — The United States government paid nothing for the release this week of 15 hostages held by leftist guerrillas in the Colombian jungle, the US ambassador to Bogota said on Friday. Ambassador William Brownfield issued the denial in response to a radio report that the daring rescue...
- Research articles 2008-07-04
- Indonesia air force says three foreigners on missing plane
- JAKARTA AFP — Three foreigners are among 18 passengers and crew who are missing after a military transport plane went down in thick jungle in West Java, the Indonesian Air Force spokesman said Friday. "Twelve people are from the military and six are civilians including three foreign nationals from...
- Research articles 2008-06-26
- Sri Lanka returns orphaned baby elephants to the wild
- UDAWALAWE, Sri Lanka AFP — Sri Lanka on Saturday released eight orphaned baby elephants into the jungle after rescuing them from near certain death, wildlife officials said. The eight baby jumbos were freed from the Elephant Transit Home where they had been cared for inside the sprawling Udawalawe wildlife...
- Research articles 2008-06-14
- US hostage proposes marriage from Colombian jungle
- MIAMI AFP — From the dark, sweltering jungle, after five years spent as a hostage of Colombian rebels, Keith Stansell managed to transmit a message: will you marry me? That was the question put to Patricia Medina, the woman who was four months pregnant with Stansell's twins when his...
- Research articles 2008-05-18
- Brad Pitt lined up to play British explorer: report
- LOS ANGELES AFP — Brad Pitt is being lined up to play British explorer Percy Fawcett, who disappeared in the Amazon jungle in 1925 during an expedition to find a lost city, it was reported on Tuesday. Pitt, 44, has expressed an interest in producing and starring in "Lost...
- Research articles 2008-04-01
- California protesters rally to save Hmong refugees
- SACRAMENTO -- The tear-stained struggle to save several thousand Hmong hiding in the Lao jungles and another 8,000 Hmong refugees in Thailand returned to the State Capitol on Monday morning. Hundreds of Northern California Hmong, along with Vietnam veterans and state legislators, rallied around 71 white wooden...
- Research articles 2008-03-26
- 'Don't leave Americans in the jungle,' urges ex-hostage
- BOGOTA AFP — A just-released rebel hostage said Wednesday three Americans were faring badly after years held captive by Colombian rebels, and called on President George W. Bush and US presidential hopefuls to do their utmost for their release. "I bring a very clear message for the president and...
- Research articles 2008-02-27
- Culture in peril as satellite TV comes to Borneo's Penan
- LONG SAN, Malaysia AFP — As the roar of heavy chainsaws echoes in the distance, 54-year-old Ajang Kiew, once a nomadic Penan tribesman, wages a losing battle to save his culture in Borneo's rainforests. The environmental damage wrought by the timber companies that are cutting swathes through Penan territory...
- Research articles 2008-02-05
- Two million protest against Colombian rebels: officials
- BOGOTA AFP — More than two million Colombians demonstrated worldwide Monday against the FARC Marxist rebels, according to official figures, demanding the freeing of hostages and an end to decades of violence. Wearing white shirts saying "No more FARC" and "No more kidnapping," demonstrators brought normal business in Colombia...
- Research articles 2008-02-04
- Lumber Co. will pay fine.(GUYANA)
- Malaysian lumber company Barama Co. Ltd. BCL said it agreed to pay Guyana $470,000 in fines for allegedly under-reporting the number of logs it harvested from the Amazon jungle, reports AFP (Nov. 15, 2007) In October, when the Guyana Forestry Commission GFC announced the penalties, BCL...
- Research articles 2008-01-01
- Colombian hostage release stalls indefinitely
- VILLAVICENCIO, Colombia AFP — Colombian rebels Monday said they would not now be able to release three hostages as planned, accusing the Colombian government of failing to guarantee the guerrillas' safety. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who read the FARC announcement, said Colombian President Alvaro Uribe "torpedoed" the release effort...
- Research articles 2007-12-31
- Colombian leader to step in as hostage release stalls
- VILLAVICENCIO, Colombia AFP — President Alvaro Uribe was Monday to travel to this Colombian city to meet international guarantors monitoring the potential release of three hostages by rebels, officials said. "The president is coming to meet with international envoys," Luis Carlos Restrepo, the governement's point man in the peace...
- Research articles 2007-12-31
- Security fears put Colombia hostage-release on hold
- CARACAS AFP — An operation to pluck three hostages held by Marxist rebels from the Colombian jungle was put on hold Friday after the Red Cross ruled out an after-dark handover due to security concerns. "The second phase of the operation cannot be done today," said Barbara Hintermann of...
- Research articles 2007-12-27
- Malaysia's Penan in battle for survival
- DATA BILA, Malaysia AFP — Deep in the Borneo jungle, 70-year-old Ara Potong stiches a rattan mat and wonders how much longer he can continue to survive on the bounty of the fast-disappearing forest. The grey-haired Penan tribesman, with the stretched earlobes distinctive to his people, deftly slices the...
- Research articles 2007-12-16
- Myanmar refugees face wretched existence in Malaysia
- KUALA LUMPUR AFP — Living in miserable camps not far from the glittering Petronas Twin Towers, Myanmar refugees in Malaysia are some of the most wretched of the hundreds of thousands who have fled their homeland. "We are living here like prisoners, we cannot go out anywhere because we...
- Research articles 2007-12-16
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