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Study: To save tigers, protect key breeding areas (AP)

September 14th, 2010

FILE - In this Feb. 22, 2010 file photo, tigers recently confiscated from the residence of an Indonesian businessman sit inside a cage at Animal Rescue Center run by Indonesian Forestry Ministry and Animal Sanctuary Trust Indonesia (ASTI) in Bogor, West Java, Indonesia. Conservationists must protect tiger populations in a few concentrated breeding grounds in Asia instead of trying to safeguard vast, surrounding landscapes, if they want to save the big cats from extinction, scientists said Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2010. (AP Photo/Irwin Fedriansyah, File)AP - Conservationists must protect tiger populations in a few concentrated breeding grounds in Asia instead of trying to safeguard vast, surrounding landscapes, if they want to save the big…

Thousands stay in Pakistan floods to protect homes (AP)

August 22nd, 2010

In this picture taken on Saturday, Aug. 21, 2010, villager Ghulam Raza works to reinforce the embankment to avoid flood water enter into their Hamdani Legari village near Moro, Pakistan. Across the Pakistan flood zone, thousands of people have decided to stay in their homes. Stranded on islands of land a few inches above the water line and refusing offers of rescue, these people are reflections of Pakistan's widespread poverty, its rampant crime, the collapse of its rural traditions and the knowledge that the authorities here would do little to protect them. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)AP - The old man stepped carefully through his village, dodging craters as deep as graves where they had been mining soil for embankments to hold back the floodwaters. Already,…

Vatican mulls how to protect impaired adults (AP)

July 7th, 2010

Bishops conference spokesman Eric De Beukelaer attends a news conference in Brussels July 7, 2010. Police questioned Cardinal Godfried Danneels, the former head of Belgium's Catholic Church, on Tuesday as a witness in an investigation into allegations of sexual abuse by priests. REUTERS/Yves Herman (BELGIUM - Tags: CRIME LAW RELIGION)AP - As the Vatican grapples with how to sanction priests who rape children, it has also mulled how to punish priests who sexually abuse mentally impaired adults, The Associated…

Pope: priests must protect kids (AP)

April 25th, 2010

Pope Benedict XVI greets the faithful during the Regina Caeli prayer in St. Peter's square, at the Vatican, Sunday, April 25, 2010.The Pontiff is praising an Italian priest's group which battles pedophilia. Benedict's encouragement for clergy and lay people to work to prevent sexual and other abuse of children comes after weeks of accusations he and other top churchmen helped perpetuate systematic cover-ups of molester priests worldwide. The pope told pilgrims and tourists gathered in St. Peter's Square Sunday that he was grateful for those who are supporting his papacy with prayers but made no direct mention of the accusations. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)AP - Pope Benedict XVI told priests Sunday to safeguard children in their charge from evil and win the “absolute” trust of their flock, even as his own papacy is…

Tearful pope says church will better protect young (AP)

April 18th, 2010

Pope Bendict XVI arrives to celebrate a mass at the Granaries in Floriana, Malta, Sunday, April 18, 2010. The pope is in Malta for a two-day visit during which he met with the president and visited a grotto linked to St. Paul. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)AP - Pope Benedict XVI met Sunday with a group of clerical sex-abuse victims and promised them with tears in his eyes that the Catholic Church would seek justice for…

Chile survivors forced to protect, feed themselves after quake (AP)

March 3rd, 2010

Men guard their street from looters in Concepcion, Chile, Tuesday, March 2, 2010. The government sent soldiers and ordered a nighttime curfew to quell looting after an 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck central Chile early Saturday, Feb. 27. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)AP - One man swings a thick metal chain. Another grips an ax. An older gentleman favors a wooden pole. And a 20-year-old spoiling for a fight has prepared a…

Chileans protect, feed themselves after quake (AP)

March 3rd, 2010

Men guard their street from looters in Concepcion, Chile, Tuesday, March 2, 2010. The government sent soldiers and ordered a nighttime curfew to quell looting after an 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck central Chile early Saturday, Feb. 27. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)AP - One man swings a thick metal chain. Another grips an ax. An older gentleman favors a wooden pole. And a 20-year-old spoiling for a fight has prepared a…

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