Rare dolphin species threatened by big fishnets
The long-beaked La Plata River dolphin, a small
species living in in South America's Atlantic coastal waters, is
increasingly threatened with extinction from big-net fishing,
Brazilian researchers warn. At last 1,000 of these dolphins die
every year near the coast of (Brazil's) Rio Grande do Sul,”
scientist Emanuel Carvalho Ferreira told AFP Friday.
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US draws guidebook for targeted killings - The Washington Post
The administration of President Barack Obama is
completing a counter terrorism manual that will establish clear
rules for targeted-killing operations, The Washington Post reported
late Saturday. But citing unnamed US officials, the newspaper said
the guidebook would contain a major exemption for the CIA's campaign
of drone strikes in Pakistan.
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Algeria hostage crisis ends in bloodbath
Algerian troops stormed a remote gas plant
Saturday to end a hostage crisis that killed 23 foreigners and
Algerians, seven of them executed by their Islamist captors in a
final military assault. Twenty-one hostages died during the siege
that began when the Al-Qaeda-linked gunmen attacked the In Amenas
facility deep in the Sahara desert at dawn on Wednesday, the
interior ministry said.
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