Construction on China's North-to-South water diversion project begins

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Protests against World Bank funding in pulp mills in Uruguay

Yellow fever outbreak feared in Ivory Coast

Ivory Coast removes illegally dumped toxic waste

Russia denies permit to LNG project

New species found

Indonesia to dump hot mud in Java Sea

Polio spreads in Indian states

Zimbabwe orders troops to oversee crop collection

Snail dies in captivity in New Zealand

New south African agreement on coastal and marine resources

Ivory trade

Military, militants clash in Nigeria

Cleanup of oil spill begins in Lebanon

South Asia

Brazilian soy traders help preserve Amazon

Typhoon Prapiroon hits southern China

European Commission bans 22 chemicals in hair dyes

Fake malaria drug causes death in Myanmar

Pollutants flood Lake Victoria

Tanzanian government evicts pastoralists

Fishes in backwaters of Zambezi river suffer a deadly infection

Botswana's Bushmen to return to Kalahari Game Reserve

Use the loo before boarding Chinese Southern Airlines