Global News Headlines 07/25

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Sunday, July 25, 1999
Greenbase Unit
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 TOXICS 

1) Belgium Closes Dioxin-Contaminated Pig Farms  BRUSSELS (July 24) XINHUA - A
total of 233 pig farms were closed  down by the Belgian government in an
attempt to stamp out the dioxin  contamination, the local press reported on
Saturday. The Belgian health authorities announced the close-down late
Friday after a checkup found that the 233 pig farms under close survaillance...

 NUCLEAR POWER 

2) BBC Summary of World Broadcasts July 26, HEADLINE: UK nuclear fuel ships
asked to stay out of South Africa's waters BODY:  [15] Excerpt from report
by the South African news agency SAPA Cape  Town,  23rd July: The South
African government has asked the two British  ships carrying  nuclear  fuel
from France to Japan to stay out of its territorial waters and its larger...

 NUCLEAR WEAPONS & MILITARY 

(GREENPEACE)
3) South Wales Evening Post 07/24/99 SECTION: Politics: GOVERNMENT, Pg.9
HEADLINE: MP slams over-reaction BODY: GOWER MP Martin Caton claims the
Government has over-reacted in banning the  Greenpeace ship from UK waters.
Environment Secretary John Prescott banned the MV Greenpeace after it was
involved in a protest against the shipment of  plutonium  to Japan on...

4) HEADLINE: India reaffirms commitment to CTBT, thanks US for role in Kashmir
BYLINE: Matthew Lee BODY: SINGAPORE, July 25 (AFP)-Indian Foreign Minister
Jaswant Singh on Sunday reaffirmed his country's commitment to ratifying a
nuclear test ban treaty and thanked the United States for its role in easing
tensions in Kashmir, US officials said. Singh, who met here with US...

5) Tokyo Forum urges boost of US/Russian arms ... TOKYO, July 25 (Itar-Tass)
The United States and Russia shall revive the reduction of nuclear armaments
expand the reduction scale,  start new comprehensive negotiations and lessen
the number of strategic  warheads to 1,000 on each side. That is a proposal
given by the Tokyo  Forum for the Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament...

6) The Ottawa Citizen July 24,FINAL SECTION: News; A1/Front HEADLINE: Russia's
new public enemy No.1: Environmentalists denounced as western spies BYLINE:
Dan Gardner  BODY:  Russia's infamous KGB -- now known as the FSB -- has
unleashed a calculated  campaign of persecution against those who ask the
wrong questions or  criticize the wrong people. But unlike the Soviet era,...

7) AFP July 24,  HEADLINE: ASEAN launches  commission to turn region into
weapons-free zone BODY: Southeast Asian foreign ministers launched a
commission Saturday charged with turning the region into a nuclear weapons-
free zone, and persuading reluctant nuclear powers to accede to the plan.
Singapore Foreign Minister  Shanmugam Jayakumar was elected to head the...

8) The Ottawa Citizen July 24, FINAL SECTION: News; A3 HEADLINE: Hazardous
waste a risk to peacekeepers: Possible exposure to PCBs doesn't surprise
soldiers BYLINE: John Nadler DATELINE:  GLLOGOVC, Kosovo  BODY: GLLOGOVC,
Kosovo -- If Canadian peacekeepers in  Croatia were exposed to PCBs in the
early 1990s, their successors in Kosovo are not surprised.  For the 115...

 OCEANS 

9) SUNDAY TELEGRAPH(LONDON) July 25, SECTION: Pg. 29 HEADLINE:International:
Australians declare war on  shark killers BYLINE: by HELEN O'NEILL in Sydney
BODY: THE Australian navy  is waging pitched battles with armed fishermen to
save sharks in its  waters. The poachers slice off the sharks' fins to sell
as a Chinese  delicacy and leave the animal in the sea to die in agony. In...

10) Xinhua JULY 25, HEADLINE: fisheries week 1999 begins in bangladesh BODY:
fisheries week 1999 began on sunday in bangladesh with a view to integrating
all sections of the people to increase fish farming in the country.president
shahabuddin ahmed and prime minister sheikh hasina issued separate messages
on the eve of the week calling for increased fish farming by applying modern...

 ATMOSPHERE & ENERGY 

11) The Toronto Star July 24,Edition 1 SECTION: NEWS HEADLINE: GLOBAL CLIMATE
CHANGE LINKED TO 'ARCTIC EL NINO' BYLINE: Peter Calamai BODY: Greenhouse
gases may be ruled out SCIENCE REPORTER  OTTAWA - The vanishing polar pack
ice, initially blamed on greenhouse gases, may instead be linked to the
Arctic's very own version of El Nino, according to research by Canadian...

12) AFP July 25, HEADLINE: Up to 110 killed in  mudslides and floods this year
in Nepal BODY: Up to 110 people have  been killed in  floods  and mudslides
in Nepal in this year's monsoon  rains,  the government announced Sunday.
Home Minister Purna Bahadur  Khadka told the National Assembly: "Heavy
downpours followed by mudslides  and  floods  have caused the deaths of 97...

13) AFP July 24, HEADLINE: Global warming to tip sex balance BODY: Global
warming could mean more boys being born in the future, a German medical
researcher has found. Alexander Lerchl, 39,  of Muenster  University,
compared the birthdates of boys and girls born in  Germany  between 1946
and 1995 and the average temperature at the time of  their  presumed...

14) The Washington Times July 25, 1999, Sunday, Final Edition SECTION: PART D;
FAMILY TIMES; Pg. D1 HEADLINE: Rays of concern; With skin cancer on  rise,
people can take steps for prevention BYLINE: Karen  Goldberg Goff; THE
WASHINGTON TIMES  BODY: Karen McFarlane never thought  about skin cancer
when she was outdoors without sunscreen or maintaining  her tan in winter by...

15) The Toronto Star July 24, Edition 1 SECTION: WHEELS HEADLINE: ELECTRIFLY
BUZZES ON BATTERY POWER BYLINE: Jil McIntosh  BODY: Durham resident has
assembled his own electric car SPECIAL TO THE STAR The average Pontiac
Firefly owner will fill up the  tank at a gas station, for about $20. When
Monte Gisborne's Firefly is  running on empty, it costs him about $1.10. He...

16) HEADLINE: Fuel oil still leaking from Russian tanker off Shimane DATELINE:
FUKUI, Japan, July 24 Kyodo BODY: Half of a sunken Russian tanker that broke
up in 1997 and caused one of Japan's worst oil spills is still leaking small
amounts of fuel oil in the Sea of Japan, according to photos made public
Saturday by government researchers. The photos were taken by an unmanned...

17) AFP July 24, HEADLINE: Mass evacuation in central China as Yangtze breaches
large dyke BODY: At least 120,000  people were evacuated from three
townships in central China as Yangtze  floodwaters ripped through a dyke and
flooded more than 3,330 hectares  (8,225 acres) of land, local officials
said Saturday. And as the dyke  burst in Hunan province, officials from...

 TERRESTRIAL ECOLOGY 

18) Xinhua JULY 25, HEADLINE: hebei province fights desertification BODY:hebei,
the north china province that surrounds beijing, has scored some success in
its decades-old drive to deal with desertification. the province has so far
reclaimed 230,000 ha of desertified land and controlled desertification in
an area of nearly one million ha, greatly improving its environment as well...

19) Agence France Presse July 25, HEADLINE: Logging threatens black storks and
spotted eagles in Latvia BYLINE: Richard Lein  BODY: Increased logging  in
Latvia has led to a decline in the tiny  black stork population by as  much
as a third, and the number of endangered lesser spotted eagles could
plummet by half, a prominent ornithologist warns. Latvia's black stork...

 GENETIC ENGINEERING 

(GREENPEACE)
20) 07/25 PA GM FOOD PROTESTERS STAGE MASS ORGANIC PICNIC By Helen
William, Hundreds of people joined in a mass protest against
genetically modified food and crops today by taking part in what was
billed as Britain's biggest organic picnic. The picnic was in the
grounds of the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, south east
London, from noon to 5pm, and was organised...

21) HEADLINE: FED: Food body defends  genetically  modified labelling  BODY:
FOOD CANBERRA, July 24 AAP - Australia's food and grocery manufacturers'peak
body today defended the absence of comprehensive labelling on whether common
foods contained  genetically  modified (GM) ingredients.  Executive director
of the Australian Food and Grocery Council Mitchell  Hooke said the industry...

22) The New York Times July  25, 1999, Sunday, Late Edition Final SECTION:
Sect.3; Pg 4; Column 4; Money and Business/Financial Desk HEADLINE: ECONOMIC
VIEW; Global Food Fights: The Worst Are Yet to Come BYLINE: By DAVID E.
SANGER DATELINE: BURLINGTON, Vt. BODY: FARMERS in Vermont know what they
don't like: mud season, summer tourists who hang  around the town green too...

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