Alcohol is available for sale once more in Baghdad. The sale of alcoholic beverages has not been allowed since early 2006, but now drink stores and cafes are starting to reopen again. Two years ago, al-Qa'ida...
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"The tiger population in the park now was only 136, down from 150 spotted in 2007, coordinator for Sumatra of Flora Fauna International (FFI), Debby Martin, said in a report on the results of her research here Thursday.Hunting and land clearing had become the main threat to...
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Padang, West Sumatra (ANTARA News) - The population of the Sumatran tiger (Panthera Tigris Sumatrae) in 21 conservation areas in West Sumatra has decreased continuously over the past five years due to land clearance and illegal logging activities, a nature conservation...
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"The Guennol Lioness is a 3.25-inch (8.3-cm) tall white limestone figure created 5,000 years ago in Mesopotamia -- the cradle of civilization between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers mostly in modern Iraq and Iran.
The sculpture is considered one f the last known masterworks...
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Bandarlampung, Southern Sumatra (ANTARA News) - The population of Sumatran elephants (Elephas maximus sumatranus) in 2007 is estimated to reach between 2,400 and 2,800 heads, or a decrease by 35 percent from the...
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The car bombings continue:"At least 24 people have been killed in a series of bomb attacks in the Iraqi
capital Baghdad, police said.
At least two car bombs and a mortar in quick succession killed 18
people and injured dozens more at a busy market in a southern mainly
Shia...