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Unique pig-nosed turtle is over-harvested in New Guinea
Numbers of pig-nosed turtles have declined steeply over the past 30 years, researchers have discovered.The unique reptile has become an international conservation icon, due to it having no close relatives and being considered the turtle most adapted to life underwater in freshwater ponds and rivers.
Yet demand for its eggs and meat in Papua New Guinea, one of the turtle's main homes, has led to the species being dramatically over-harvested by indigenous people.
Details of the decline are published...
Japan's current account surplus falls sharply in May
Japan's current account surplus fell sharply in May, as the 11 March earthquake and tsunami continue to affect exports.The surplus shrank 51.7% to 590.7bn yen ($7.27bn; £4.55bn) compared with a year earlier, said the Ministry of Finance.
However, that is less than most analysts had expected.
The data shows that while the economy continues to suffer from the disaster, it is recovering quicker than expected.
May's fall in the current account surplus marks the third straight monthly drop after the...
Thursday, July 7, 2011
French boat bound for Gaza 'stuck' in Greece, organizers say
(CNN) -- A French boat trying to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza is "stuck" in Greece, detained along with its crew by Greek authorities, a spokesman for the French crew said Thursday.
The ship and crew were stopped when they arrived in Crete to refuel, said Maxime Gimberteau of "A Boat for Gaza."
Greek authorities confirmed that the boat, Dignite Al Karama, had been docked at the port of Sitia in Crete since early Thursday.
They said it would not be given permission to depart for Gaza, and that...
11 Afghan civilians killed in NATO-led strike
Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Eight children and three women died in eastern Afghanistan when NATO-led forces bombarded houses, a provincial official told CNN Thursday.
The incident took place Wednesday in Khost province's Domandera district, according to Khost upper house member and foreign relations chief Arifullah Pashton.
There was no immediate reaction from NATO's International Security Assistance Force about civilian casualties in Khost. But ISAF said it was investigating allegations of civilian...
Police: 39 dead in Pakistani city after days of clashes
(CNN) -- Ongoing sectarian violence has left 39 people dead in a southern Pakistani city in the last few days, police said Thursday.
Ten people were killed on Tuesday, 18 on Wednesday and 11 on Thursday after clashes in several neighborhoods in Karachi, said Arslan Umar, a police official in the city.
The clashes have been blamed on a bitter rivalry between the political parties of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) and the Awami National Party (ANP).
The MQM mostly represents Urdu-speaking people,...
Strauss-Kahn won't strike plea deal in sex crimes case
New York (CNN) -- French financier Dominique Strauss-Kahn will not accept any plea bargain and "won't plead guilty to anything" in the sex crimes case against him, one of his attorneys told CNN on Thursday.
Attorney William Taylor made the remarks a day after Strauss-Kahn's legal team met with prosecutors in the case for nearly two hours. It's not known if any plea deal was offered. The meeting came about a week after Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. acknowledged that there are questions...
Casey Anthony sentence: Four years in jail with credit for time served
[Updated at 11:34 a.m.] Casey Anthony will be released on July 13, 2011, according to a court spokesperson.
The spokeswoman said she would release more information about the calculation as soon as it was available.
[Updated at 10:41 a.m.] Judge Belvin Perry and attorneys for the state ad the defense are continuing to hold discussions in the courtroom.
All sides are working with the corrections department to help determine exactly how much time Casey Anthony has served in order to determine how much longer she will need to serve to finish out her...
Militants kill 10 Yemeni soldiers By the CNN Wire Staff
(CNN) -- Militants gunned down 10 soldiers at a military checkpoint in southwestern Yemen, authorities said Thursday.
The incident occurred Wednesday in the town of Lawdar, security officials said.
In an unrelated incident Wednesday, the Yemen Defense Ministry said it had killed Waleed Osairi, an al Qaeda commander, along with several other suspected al Qaeda militants.
The deaths occurred in Abyan province and is part of an effort to clear the area of the terror group, the government said.
Yemen...
Hacking scandal exposes secrets at Murdoch's tabloid
London (CNN) -- In 2005, the best-selling weekly UK tabloid News of the World published a seemingly mundane story about Prince William's injuring his knee.
It was just another exclusive for a newspaper that had made its reputation on hard-hitting exclusives, often exposing the embarrassments of celebrities and politicians.
Britain's newspaper culture which developed around London's Fleet Street, nicknamed the "Street of Shame" by satirical magazine Private Eye, has long been based on cut-throat competition and dirty dealings -- anything goes, if...
Scandal-hit News of the World to shut down
London (CNN) -- The embattled British tabloid News of the World, one of the oldest and best-selling newspapers in Britain, will shut down after Sunday's issue, its owner, News International, told CNN Thursday.
The dramatic announcement follows accusations that the paper illegally eavesdropped on the messages of murder and terror victims, politicians and celebrities.
The scandal "sullied" the newspaper and "has no place in our company," News International Chairman James Murdoch said Thursday in announcing the shutdown.
And paying out-of-court settlements...
British scandal sheet wracked by scandal of its own
(CNN) -- Britain's News of the World newspaper and its parent company News International will likely be seriously damaged by the phone-hacking scandal, analysts say.
Experts are divided, though, on how the paper's owner, media magnate Rupert Murdoch, will weather the storm.
News International also owns the Sun, the Times and the Sunday Times in Britain. Murdoch's media empire also encompasses Fox News, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Post and Harper Collins publishers in the United...
