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Hamelin, Germany - The rats are back in Hamelin, where a legendary Pied Piper once rid the Germany city of both rodents and children.
The city confirmed Tuesday it was battling a rat population explosion in an area of overgrown former garden allotments close to the city centre.
"It's like a rubbish dump in there and has developed into a rat refuge," said municipal spokesman Thomas Wahmes. After a rapid rise in rat numbers this year, the vermin were spreading into a new housing estate nearby.
The city's hands are tied because it does not own the wilderness, where...
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A hijacked Saudi-owned supertanker carrying more than $100 million worth of crude oil is believed to have anchored off Somalia. Therefore, its owners are working toward the safe and speedy return of the 25 crew, they declared on Tuesday. It seems that the pirates seized the vessel some 480 miles off the coast of Somalia. The boat is called Sirius Star and earlier reports mentioned that is had been hijacked off the Kenyan coast. However, the owners did not mention that negotiations with the hijackers have started. The supertanker is the largest ship known to have been seized by pirates. Vela...
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Washington - A cargo vessel operated by an Iranian firm has been hijacked off the Somali coast, the US Navy confirmed Tuesday, in the latest seizure by pirates operating out of the African country.
The vessel was flying a Hong Kong flag and was operated by the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines when it was hijacked in the Gulf of Aden, said Lieutenant Nathan Christensen, a spokesman for the US US Navy Fifth Fleet in Bahrain.
There was no information about the status of the crew, its cargo or where it was headed, but Christensen said pirated ships typically head to Somalia.
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Geneva - All the delegations attended "constructive" talks on the Russia-Georgia conflict Wednesday and agreed to meet again for another round of negotiations next month, the European Union representative to the discussions said.
"We had constructive meetings of the two working groups," said Pierre Morel. As planned, the two groups, with eight delegations in total, met on security and refugee issues for about three hours each.
The first round of talks last month ended with Moscow and Tbilisi accusing each other of walking out without the two sides having sat in...
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Warsaw - According to an EU report released today, Poles make up the largest immigrant group in the European Union, being followed by Romanians and Moroccans.
Out of some 3 million immigrants that settled in the EU, some 290,000 were Poles, said the Eurostat statistics based on 2006.
Some 2 million Poles went to work in other EU countries - notably Britain and Ireland - since Poland joined the European Union in 2004.
Poles working abroad have contributed to the ex-communist nation's prosperity, sending home more than 8 billion dollars in 2007 while helping to cut the jobless...
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