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RI, A'LIA AGREE TO COOPERATE IN COPING WITH CLIMATE CHANGE

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Jakarta, Jun 13 (ANTARA) - Indonesia and Australia have agreed to cooperate in coping with the impact of climate change in the two as well as in other countries.

BINTAN TO ORGANIZE MALAY MARINE FESTIVAL

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Bintan, Riau island Province, June 13 (ANTARA) - The Bintan District Administration will organize a Malay Marine Festival in Sebong Pereh waters, Telok Sebok sub district, Riau Islands Province, from June 21 to 22, 2008.

National workshop on the drafting of new fisheries law

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(KPL) A national workshop on the drafting of a new fisheries law was held in Vientiane on 10 - 11 June. The workshop was jointly organised by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry and the FAO office in Laos.

PRESIDENT HOPES MORE AUSTRALIAN TOURISTS TO VISIT INDONESIA

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Jakarta, June 13 (ANTARA) - The Indonesian government hopes more Australian tourists will come to Indonesia as security conditions in the country have become more conducive, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said.

Russia, NATO defence ministers to discuss international security

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Brussels, June 13 (Itar-Tass) -- Russian Defence Minister Anatoly

Abkhazia states Sukhumi airport to continue operation

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Sukhumi, June 13 (Itar-Tass) -- The Sukhumi airport will continue its operation no matter how the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) opposes this move of the breakaway republic, spokesperson for the Abkhazian leader Kristian Bzhania told reporters on Thursday in comments to a statem

Rains help putting down most forest fires in Russia's Tuva

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Gorno-Altaisk, June 13 (Itar-Tass) -- The ongoing rains helped putting down a greater part of 11 forest fires that have raged in Russia's Republic of Tuva from the beginning of the Russian holidays. Three fires are still burning in the republic, one of them has already been localized.

Japan to provide financial, technical assistance to Pakistan for

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Islamabad, June 13 (PPI): Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) would provide financial and technical assistance to Pakistan to overcome environmental problems including impacts of climate change, smoke of vehicles, sanitation problems and melting of glacier.

AIDS soars in Yemen

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SANA'A, June 13 (Saba) - The number of the HIV affected-people
has increased in Yemen after the National Program for Combating AIDS/HIVE registered more 53 cases during the first quarter of 2008, the weekly alwahdah newspaper has said.

AZERBAIJAN MINISTER MEETS TURKISH MINISTER OF PUBLIC WORKS AND

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Baku, 13 June, (AzerTAj)Azerbaijan`s minister of emergency situations Kamaladdin Heydarov met with Turkish minister of public works and settlement Faruk Nafiz Ozak, who is on a visit in Baku.

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