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/ 23 January 2006
India’s struggling shipbreakers fear doom for their industry if tighter laws are introduced in the wake of the controversy over an asbestos-laden French aircraft carrier. A court-appointed panel has questioned French officials and environmental activists over the amount of toxic chemicals in the decommissioned <i>Clemenceau</i>.
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/ 26 October 2005
Indian quake survivor Altaf Hussein’s patience has worn thin. Every day for the past 10 days he has queued for kerosene from government trucks, and every day he has gone back empty-handed. As winter closes in, villagers like Hussein say little or no relief has reached this devastated mountain region — which accounted for more than half of the 1 300 deaths from an October 8 earthquake in Indian Kashmir.