Cleanup to start at old sites in Lebanon
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Cleanup is set to begin within days at the first of three ancient World Heritage sites damaged in the summer's Hezbollah-Israel war &#151; a crumbling old castle rising from the Mediterranean whose foundation stones are now coated with oil sludge.
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By JUAN CARLOS LLORCA  GUATEMALA CITY - Mayan priests will purify a sacred archaeological site to eliminate "bad spirits" after President Bush visits next week, an official with close ties to the group said Thursday.
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The United Nations declared an  end on Thursday to the humanitarian crisis in Lebanon caused by  the Israeli-Hizbollah war and said it planned to shift its  resources to rebuilding the war-shattered area.
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By Hardev Kaur  THE damage inflicted on Lebanon is unbelievable. It is not just the damage to vital infrastructure but also the environment, the economy and the unseen dangers that threaten the health of its people.
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One hospital in the heart of Beirut will stop taking new patients while another in the south &#151; full of war wounded &#151; expects to close soon.
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Syria has begun dismantling the remains of a site Israel bombed Sept. 6 in what may be an attempt to prevent the location from coming under international scrutiny, said U.S. and foreign officials familiar with the aftermath of the attack.
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Syria has cleared away all traces of a large building that experts say was bombed by Israeli jets last month because it was suspected of housing a partially finished nuclear reactor, according to a new satellite image that shows only freshly groomed dirt at the site.
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AL QAIM, Iraq  - On a street surrounded by ruins of bombed-out homes, stonemasons were working into the hottest part of the day to finish the second-floor gallery of the grand house they are rebuilding for Sheikh Mausuf Murdi.
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Israel will renovate the crumbling entrance to a disputed holy site in Jerusalem's Old City that is revered by Jews and Muslims, officials said Monday.
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Crews in Naples Â where the streets increasingly are lined with trash Â began cleaning up a long disused dump Thursday in a bid to ease a mounting garbage crisis.
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A decade of instability and conflict leaves an environmentally devastated Iraq, but the international community is moving to clean it up, as the United Nations announced Tuesday
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More than 30 years ago, an abandoned mine in Pennsylvania coal country was turned into a dump for toxic waste. Lots of it
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Scientists will begin investigating environmental "hot spots" in Iraq as part of a long-term strategy to clean up the country after ten years of war and instability, the U.N. Environment Program said Tuesday.
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By KERRY CAVANAUGH\\ Staff Writer  A decade into the cleanup of radioactive contamination at the Santa Susana Field Lab, the Department of Energy has begun consulting with state and federal environmental regulators on decontamination of the site's last buildings.
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By Patrick Lester, The Morning Call, Allentown, Pa.  Jun. 15--The federal government has announced plans for an estimated $19 million cleanup of a Berks County toxic waste site nearly 25 years after a potentially cancer-causing chemical was found in drinking water there.
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The recent conflict between Hezbollah and Israeli forces&#151;now halted by a tentative cease-fire&#151;appears to have left historic sites in the war-torn country unscathed.
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Environmentalists built a giant Christmas tree out of garbage in Beirut on Thursday to pressure the government into cleaning up Lebanon's waste problem.