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Yahoo! News Search Results for natural disasters
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Yahoo! News Search Results for natural disasters
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Natural disasters drive up rice prices (Vietnam Net)
VietNamNet Bridge ? Vietnamese rice may hold an advantage on the domestic and world market due to urgent demand for the grain and widespread natural disasters.
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Natural Disasters Drive Up Rice Prices (Bernama)
HANOI, Nov 20 (Bernama) -- Vietnamese rice may hold an advantage on the domestic and world market due to urgent demand for the grain and widespread natural disasters, Vietnam News Agency (VNA) reported Friday.
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Natural disasters drive up rice prices (Vi?t Nam News)
HA NOI ? Vietnamese rice may hold an advantage on the domestic and world market due to urgent demand for the grain and widespread natural disasters. Storm and floods in the centre and a forecast drought in the north pushed the current price of rice up on the domestic market compared to last month.
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Natural disasters (Euronews)
One Turkish family has reasons to love their neighbours this weekend. Just seconds before their house disintegrated before their eyes, a friend rang to tell them to get out fast, or they too would have been victims of atrocious weather that has hit Turkey.
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Fewer disasters boost first-half profits at major nonlife insurers (The Japan Times)
Six major nonlife insurers said Thursday their group net profits in the April-September period rose from a year earlier as insurance payments slipped below projections on a smaller-than-expected number of natural disasters. They also reported pretax profits for the first half of fiscal 2009 after incurring losses from the global financial crisis for the whole of fiscal 2008, indicating the ...
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International lab studies rising fatalities in Texas' flash flood alley (KENS 5 San Antonio)
Flash flooding kills more people each year than any other hazard, and it happens often in Texas. That's why a new international lab, set up smack-dab in the middle of 'flash flood alley' is studying why the number of fatalities is rising. It is arguably the worst of all natural disasters, killing more people every year than any other hazard, and it happens often, right here in Texas. The ...
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'UN knows what Copenhagen failure can entail' (New Kerala)
New York, Nov 22 : Among those keeping a close eye on the outcome of next month's climate summit in Copenhagen is the head of the United Nations body dealing with disaster risk reduction, who has seen first-hand the devastation wrought by increasingly frequent and severe natural disasters aggravated by climate change.
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Expert Knows What Copenhagen Failure Could Mean (Scoop.co.nz)
Among those keeping a close eye on the outcome of next month?s climate summit in Copenhagen is the head of the United Nations body dealing with disaster risk reduction, who has seen first-hand the devastation wrought by increasingly frequent and severe natural disasters aggravated by climate change.
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Don't rush out to buy asteroid insurance (Times News)
There is a cottage industry based on the premise that, on December 12, 2012, the world will end. Some say an asteroid will hit Earth. Others say there will be all kinds of natural disasters owing to some kind of odd celestial formation. One website says: "The galactic alignment is the alignment of the December solstice sun as viewed from Earth with the galactic equator. The galactic equator is ...
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U.N. urges aid for quake-ridden Indonesia (UPI)
JAKARTA, Nov. 21 (UPI) -- The United Nations' health agency says Indonesia needs financial help to recover from two earthquakes and prepare for future disasters.
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