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During Neptune Response '07, fire fighters pull a victim to safety from a simulated airplane crash, while other personnel proceed to put out the fire.

BBC News: A chronology of some of the world's recent air disasters: 2010 28 July: An Airblue plane with more than 150 people on board crashes in hills north of Pakistan's capital...

Take toxic waste. Add caustic soda. Worry about the danger later

Water Pollution - Polluted river Mutha, Pune, India

The Independent: When the Panama-registered cargo tanker Probo Koala sailed into the port of Amsterdam on 2 July 2006, its arrival was just the latest stage in a quest for substantial...

Trafigura found guilty of toxic waste offence

The Independent: The oil trading company Trafigura was fined more than £800,000 after being found guilty of concealing the dangerous nature of toxic waste which was then illegally...

Dutch court fines firm over Ivory Coast toxic waste

Waste removal experts work to remove hazardous black sludge from a garbage dump in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Sunday, Sept. 17, 2006. A clean-up operation began Sunday to remove hundreds of tons of toxic waste from Ivory Coast´s largest city as the gove

Yahoo Daily News: AMSTERDAM (AFP) – A Dutch court on Friday slapped a one million euro fine on multinational shipping company Trafigura for illegally exporting toxic waste to Ivory...

Wrongful dismissal; consumers like underdogs, too2010-07-28

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Plane veers off runway2010-07-28

Independent online (SA): By Yasmin El-rifae Nouakchott, Mauritania - At least ten people were injured on Wednesday...

Plane veers off runway in Conakry, 10 injured2010-07-28

m&c: Nouakchott, Mauritania - At least ten people were injured Wednesday when a...

Court Convicts Journalists for Refusing to Disclose Sources2010-07-28

All Africa: The Plateau Criminal Court in...

NY judge sets bail for money adviser to stars2010-07-27

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Detention of Ivorian journalists over classified information condemned2010-07-27

Joy Online: The Federation of African Journalists (FAJ), the African regional organization of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), condemns in the strongest terms the arrest and the detention of three Ivorian journalists working with the Nouveau Courrier...

Under 19 Rugby Team Routs Kenya, Meets Zimbabwe2010-07-27

All Africa: After routing rivals Kenya...

Stockler Upbeat Despite Heroes Fall2010-07-27

All Africa: NATIONAL soccer team coach,...

Appeals court rules on scope of migratory bird act2010-07-26

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Trader fined over waste in Ivory Coast2010-07-26

Independent online (SA): By Gilbert Kreijger Amsterdam - A Dutch court fined commodities trader Trafigura one million euros on Friday for illegally exporting toxic waste to Ivory Coast which ended up being dumped in the open air. The judge said during the ruling, the first ever to...