Here in southern China, beneath the looming mountains of Fujian Province, lie dozens of enormous ponds filled with murky brown water and teeming with eels, shrimp and tilapia, much of it destined for markets in Japan and the West.
“Our waters here are filthy,” said Ye Chao, an eel and shrimp farmer who has 20 giant [...]

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Celebrating anniversary, Hamas warns of Intifada
Reuters - 9 hours ago
By Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Hamas threatened to launch a new uprising against Israel on Saturday when hundreds of thousands of Islamist …
Hamas celebrated 20 years since its founding. Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Hamas Marks 20th Anniversary With Rally The Associated Press
Hamas rallies in Gaza to [...]

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Israel fails to convince US of Iran threat
Reuters South Africa, South Africa - 4 hours ago
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel has failed to convince the United States that Iran’s nuclear programme poses a serious and immediate threat, an Israeli cabinet …
Israel: US Report on Iran May Spark war The Associated Press
Israel’s internal security minister came out harshly against [...]

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The Russian army’s chief of staff has accused the West of playing politics with European arms control and warned that the launch of US interceptor missiles could trigger a Russian missile strike.
General Baluyevsky also warned that the launch of an interceptor missile by the United States could trigger a Russian missile strike because it could [...]

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The bank will have dual blast-proof doors with motion sensors, two airlocks, and walls of steel-reinforced concrete one meter thick. It will contain up to three million different varieties of seeds from the entire world, ‘so that crop diversity can be conserved for the future,’ according to the Norwegian government. Seeds will be specially wrapped [...]

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But it was also obvious to the American side that relations with China were going through a difficult phase, with discord sometimes crowding out the areas of agreement. The Chinese frequently threatened retaliation over actions that displeased them, in the political and military spheres as well as the economic.
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