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DEFINITION ag-flay-shun n. The rising cost of food and drink attributed to higher demand for biofuels made from agricultural products...
...consequence, French culture is a real melting pot: from Manu Chao to Youssou N'Dour, artists who are famous all over the world have strong links with our country, even if they don't necessarily sing in French. In editorial terms, too, France is a land of discovery: each year, almost half of the novels published in France are translations...
...country's other major opposition party, Nawaz Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), initially said that it would boycott the election. But today party officials said the party would participate...
...They were, the scientists suggested, suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder - terminology usually reserved for humans - responding to years of hardship, inflicted by people. Their population and social order had been decimated by poaching, culls and habitat loss, and the elephants, in a sense, were striking back. Neuroscientist Allan N. Schore, one of the paper's authors and a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the UCLA Medical School, demurred at calling such actions "revenge" or evidence of a "grudge" - but says the fact that elephants act out under stress suggests that their psychology may not be so different...
...criminal court in the Chadian capital of N'Djamena deliberated for only a few hours Monday evening before finding the six employees of Zoé's Ark, a France-based children's aid group, guilty of attempted kidnapping. All six were sentenced to eight years of hard labor. The verdict came two months after Chadian police arrested a total of 17 people working with Zoé's Ark in the eastern town of Abéché as they prepared an unauthorized airlift of 103 children to France, where they were to receive medical care and be placed in foster...