French NGOs push to save African chicken farmers from Europe
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African chicken farmers risk ruin from massive imports of European frozen poultry at less than a third of their prices, say organisers of a campaign by French non-government organisations to protect the home-grown African market.
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Fear of runaway global warming pushed 46 countries to line up Saturday behind France's appeal for a new environmental body that could single out _ and perhaps police _ nations that abuse the Earth.Comment
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A massive army of volunteers wearing protective plastic bags over their flip flops is taking the Thai Prime Minister&#39;s battle against bird flu to its source: Thailand&#39;s chicken coops and live markets.
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LE GRAND QUELEN, France  - Alain le Potier gazes across the wooded valley from his hilltop family farm in Brittany but, like many French farmers, his view is clouded by worries about the April-May presidential election.
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President Nicolas Sarkozy, his wife and EU officials pressed for the release of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor sentenced to life in prison in Libya for allegedly infecting children with AIDS, the president's office said Monday.
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Twenty-two African countries bordering the Atlantic Ocean want help from Europe to protect their waters from illegal fishing by foreign boats, the head of a regional body said on Friday.
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A group of French charity workers, condemned at home for an attempt to fly more than 100 children to France from the Chad-Darfur border, awaited a decision Monday from the Chadian authorities on whether to press kidnapping charges.
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BRUSSELS, Jan. 23 (IPS) - Europeans love chicken breast. That leaves the  question what you do with the legs. The current answer is to  freeze them and ship them to Africa, where they sell at a price  far cheaper than fresh local chicken.
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A massive army of volunteers wearing protective plastic bags over their flip-flops is taking the Thai Prime Minister&#39;s battle against bird flu to its source: Thailand&#39;s chicken coops and live markets.
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Conservationists launched a three-year project on Tuesday to protect millions of migrating birds which are indiscriminately targeted by hunters in North Africa and the Middle East.
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Determined to save two journalists kidnapped in Iraq, France has frantically called on Arab leaders and Muslim imams and set in motion a swell of solidarity unseen in previous hostage dramas.
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Pets are being slaughtered for meat in shortage-stricken Zimbabwe and record numbers of animals have been surrendered to shelters or abandoned by owners no longer able to feed them, animal welfare activists say.
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When Attia Abdel-Hamid  Hassan notices the chickens or ducks that he keeps at home in  Egypt&#39;s Nile Delta starting to wobble on their feet, he puts  them in a sack and drowns them in an irrigation canal.
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The World Health Organization is urging drugmakers including GlaxoSmithKline Plc, Sanofi-Aventis SA and Chiron Corp. to join in developing a vaccine to stop Asia&#39;s deadly bird flu virus from triggering a pandemic.
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One hundred and eight countries have agreed on an action plan to save endangered livestock breeds, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization said Friday.
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Business: 26 December 2004, Sunday. Macedonia is to decide whether to ban the imports of poultry from Bulgaria because of a bird flu case registered in the country, Skopje Vreme newspaper reported.
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Brussels - Belgian authorities on Sunday appealed to a Thai man who smuggled two bird flu-infected Asian eagles into Brussels airport to make contact, and urged passengers who took the same flights to seek medical help.