China's Yangtze River and Pearl River estuaries have been newly listed as oxygen-deficient "dead zones", according to a study released by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).

联合国环境规划署(UNEP)发布的研究报告中显示，中国的长江及珠江入海口已列为缺氧的“死亡”地带。

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Valderlei Canuto Leandro, 32, host of the Sinal Verde (Green Signal) programme on Radio Frontera, was shot dead by unidentified assailants in the city of Tabatinga, in the state of Amazonas, according to local press reports.

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Mr Olmert's plan to pull settlements out of the West Bank unilaterally to make way for a Palestinian state, on which he was elected less than a year ago, is dead for now, but he has no other programme.

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Just as this correspondent was about to visit southern Somalia with people from the UN's World Food Programme, the trip was cancelled when two of the agency's workers were shot dead and a third died on an airstrip waiting for medical help.

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