Australia Fights Biggest Locust Plague in Decades
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Australia has started battling its biggest plague of locusts in decades as billions of the insects hatch along a wide front covering much of the country's central east region.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Australian Prime Minister  John Howard, whose government made the largest pledge of aid to  tsunami-stricken nations, toured ravaged Aceh province on  Wednesday as Indonesia said it had buried 110,000 victims.
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Wild camels in drought-stricken  Australia are in plague proportions, damaging the environment  and property as they compete with native animals for food and  water.
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India News, Nagpur,Damien Martyn Tuesday cracked his career&#39;s ninth Test century to put Australia in a strong position against India on the first day of the third Test at the Vidarbha Cricket Association (VCA) ground here.
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Israeli ag officials are coping with huge swarms of locusts sweeping in from North Africa, the first such invasion since 1959. Residents report clouds of the insects munching palm trees bare, but some citizens are eating the bugs.
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New South Wales, Australia, is bracing for what authorities predict will be the worst locust plague in 25 years.
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Damien Martyn smashed a defiant century to pull Australia out of a precarious position Sunday and give it the edge over India in the second cricket test.
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As severe water restrictions take effect in Australia&#39;s major agricultural area, experts say there are signs the country&#39;s worst drought in a century may finally be coming to an end.
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ROME - Donor nations have pledged an additional $40m (about R264m) to help fight a devastating locust invasion in west Africa, but urgent action is now needed to tackle the crisis, the head of the UN&#39;s Food and Agriculture Organisation said yesterday.
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The UN appeals for extra international aid to battle swarms of locusts that are spreading across west Africa.
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Cyprus was invaded by a swarm of thousands of locusts, a rare occurrence on the east Mediterranean island, which left farmers scrambling to protect their crops.
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Locust swarms across West Africa have not damaged food crops as severely as initially feared, the UN says.
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Australia's deadliest bushfires for 22 years left nine people dead and dozens injured as firefighters fought to control blazes raging in two states and threatening a third.
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Skipper Ricky Ponting produced his first Test century for over a year to propel Australia into a powerful position against Pakistan in the third and final cricket Test at the Sydney Cricket Ground.
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Egypt has killed swarms of a type of locust that has infested parts of Africa and Cyprus this year, the official Middle East News Agency (MENA) reported on Monday.
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Australia and New Zealand joined forces to airlift emergency aid to victims of the monster earthquake and tidal waves which devastated coastal areas of south and southeast Asia over the weekend.
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Crop-devouring locusts have caused major damage to cereals in Mauritania but other West and Central African states have suffered much less than feared from the worst infestation in over a decade, the U.N. said on Thursday.