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last SG · 2005-07-13T23:59:44+00:00

i like these, they look so ben ben and cute cute

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AFP/File - Tue Aug 23, 7:50 AM ET
Indonesian residents put out fires in Rokan Hilir on August 14. Malaysia said it will take action against four plantations which conducted open burning during the haze crisis that recently choked parts of the country.(AFP/File)

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AFP/File - Tue Aug 23, 7:56 AM ET
Young boys play in a flooded street in Thailand's northern province. Professor Thanawat Jarupongsakul warned that the northern coastline of the Gulf of Thailand is retreating at a rate of at least 65 metres (213 feet) per year due to rapid industrialisation and overuse of groundwater.(AFP/File/Olivier Evrard)

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AFP/File - Tue Aug 23, 8:07 AM ET
Aerial view of Phi Phi island after the tsunami smashed into the southern Thai coastline in December 2004. Asian governments are failing properly to restore coastal mangrove forests damaged in the tsunami, which saved lives and homes by absorbing the force of the waves.(AFP/File/Pornchai Kittiwongsakul)

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AFP/File - Tue Aug 23, 9:16 AM ET
Picture dated July 2005 shows Austrian rescue workers helping people affected by flood waters in Mittersill. Western Austria was on flood alert, after heavy rain over the past few days which has killed one person and left at least six injured throughout the central European country.(AFP/File)

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AFP - Tue Aug 23,10:55 AM ET
A firefighter works near a wildfire in Ourense, northwestern Spain. Firefighters in the northwestern Spanish province of Galicia battled 24 blazes, including one that has burned for three days and threatened homes near the coast(AFP/Miguel Riopa)

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AFP/NASA/File - Tue Aug 23,11:00 AM ET
The International Space Station. Malaysia's 25 million dollar space program is on track and 894 candidates will begin a series of rigorous tests this week to select the astronaut who will go to the ISS onboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft.(AFP/NASA/File)

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Reuters - Tue Aug 23, 9:03 AM ET
A villager of Carreira do Mato tries to extinguish a forest fire in Abrantes, central Portugal, August 22, 2005. Water-dumping aircraft from around Europe battled on Tuesday to help drought-hit Portugal contain its worst fires on record that have killed at least 14 people. (Nacho Doce/Reuters)

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AFP/File - Tue Aug 23,11:36 AM ET
Visitors at the 'Monkey Mountain' park in Kintzheim in the Vosges, Alsace region, a reserve of Barbary Apes. The monkeys originating from North Africa, have become a tourist attraction with visitors numbering some 300,000 per year(AFP/File/Ilan Garzone)

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AFP/File - Tue Aug 23,11:36 AM ET
A visitor at 'Monkey Mountain' in Kintzheim, northeastern France, offers a treat to a monkey. The park has become a sanctuary for Barbary apes which are threatened with extinction in their native habitat in north Africa(AFP/File/Ilan Garzone)

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AFP/File - Tue Aug 23,11:36 AM ET
Visitors watch Barbary apes at 'Monkey Mountain' in northeastern France. There are 298 now specimens of the North African monkeys which are threatened with extinction in their native habitat(AFP/File/Ilan Garzone)

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AFP/File - Tue Aug 23,12:33 PM ET
Portuguese firefighters try to extinguish a wildfire in Carreira do Mato. Nearly 3,000 firefighters and soldiers battled dozens of wildfires which continued to rage in parched Portugal.(AFP/File/Francisco Leong)

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AFP/File - Tue Aug 23,12:33 PM ET
Canadair firefighting aircraft drops its load over a wildfire in Carreira do Mato, 180 Km north east of Lisbon. Nearly 3,000 firefighters and soldiers backed by aircraft from five European nations battled wildfires which raged in parched Portugal.(AFP/File/Francisco Leong)

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AFP/File - Tue Aug 23, 3:01 PM ET
A young girl waits for private water vendors to open the tap in the Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya. As African nations grapple with long-neglected issues of sanitation and hygiene, their efforts are bogged down by cultural taboos, lack of government focus and stark poverty, an international water conference heard.(AFP/File/Marco Longari)

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Water-bombs away
A French water-dropping aircraft unloads over a burning forest in Portugal on Tuesday responding to the country's appeals for help to battle widfires that have already razed 140,000ha of land. EU states like Spain, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands have also sent help. -- AP

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Resisting removal
Some 10,000 Israeli troops stormed the settlements of Sanur and Homesh on Tuesday to evacuate the remaining extremists opposed to Israel's first dismantling of West Bank settlements. Security forces had expected resistance there to be the strongest as militants had infiltrated both strongholds. -- AFP

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Building down
A four-storey residential building in India's flood-hit city of Mumbai collapsed early on Tuesday killing 11 people and trapping more than a dozen others. Building collapses during the monsoon season are not uncommon in Mumbai, where more than 16,000 dilapidated buildings have been declared unsafe. -- AFP

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llama on the lose
Runaway llama, Bonnie, led Clark County Sheriff's Deputy Brian Buxton on a mid-speed chase through a cemetery in Springfield, Ohio, on Monday morning. The llama was caught safely about two hours later. -- AP

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Industry in crisis
Africa's aquaculture industry, which employs some 10 million people, is facing a crisis. Over-fishing and lack of investment have threatened the survival of the industry as fish stocks there continue to dwindle even as numbers are increasing globally. -- AP

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Exotic finds
These snakes are two of the 39 reptiles confiscated from the luggage of a Japanese man at Brisbane International airport on Monday. He was charged with trying to smuggle exotic South-east Asian reptiles - including green tree pythons, albino pythons, iguanas, frilled-neck dragons, slider turtles and tree monitors - in his cabin bag, speaker boxes and food containers. -- AFP

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Demolitions hit Victoria Falls

Jobseekers' drawcard

The town of Victoria Falls is known as one of Africa's top tourist attractions. But now, nearby Chinotimba township has become one of the places worst affected by the Zimbabwe government's crackdown illegal structures and informal traders.

Zimbabweans had come to Victoria Falls to look for jobs, believing that the tourist industry would keep the town afloat as the rest of the economy slowed down. Many had built houses which the government deemed to be illegal.

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