Monday, 13 May 2013 18:24
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ROME: Beetles, caterpillars and wasps could supplement diets around the world as an environmentally friendly food source if only Western consumers could get over their "disgust", the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said on Monday."The main message is really: 'Eat insects'", Eva Mueller, director of forest economics at the FAO, told a press conference in Rome."Insects are abundant and they are a valuable source of protein and minerals," she said."Two billion people -- a third of the world's population -- are already eating insects because they are delicious and nutritious," she said.Also speaking at the press conference was Gabon Forestry Minister Gabriel Tchango who said: "Insect consumption is part of our daily life."He said some insects -- like beetle larvae and grilled termites -- were considered delicacies."Insects contribute about 10 percent of animal protein consumed by the population," he said.The report said insect farming was "one of the many ...
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ROME: Beetles, caterpillars and wasps could supplement diets around the world as an environmentally friendly food source if only Western consumers could get over their "disgust", the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said on Monday."The main message is really: 'Eat insects'", Eva Mueller, director of forest economics at the FAO, told a press conference in Rome."Insects are abundant and they are a valuable source of protein and minerals," she said."Two billion people -- a third of the world's population -- are already eating insects because they are delicious and nutritious," she said.Also speaking at the press conference was Gabon Forestry Minister Gabriel Tchango who said: "Insect consumption is part of our daily life."He said some insects -- like beetle larvae and grilled termites -- were considered delicacies."Insects contribute about 10 percent of animal protein consumed by the population," he said.The report said insect farming was "one of the many ...
LONDON: Prime Minister David Cameron will push for ways to make opposition forces in Syria operationally stronger when he meets with US president Barack Obama later on Monday, Cameron's spokesman said."The prime minister is keen to discuss with President Obama how we can both help together to establish a stronger and more credible opposition both politically and operationally inside Syria," Cameron's spokesman said.Copyright Reuters, 2013 ...
MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree waiving visa requirements for athletes and officials attending international sporting events in Russia, the Kremlin announced on Monday."Participants in international sporting competition can enter and exit the Russian Federation without applying for visas," the government said in a statement posted on its official website (www.kremlin.ru).The government would publish a list of international sporting events and regulations on how long foreigners may remain in the country, the statement ...
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SOFIA: Bulgarians voted on Sunday in an election marred by suspicions of rigging, with expectations of a close result that is likely to prolong uncertainty in the European Union's poorest country.The rightist GERB party, which resigned after violent demonstrations over poverty and corruption in February, is running neck-and-neck with the Socialists. That raises the possibility that neither might be able to form a coalition and could ultimately mean a new election.Six years after Bulgaria joined ...
PARIS: A second case of a new SARS-like coronavirus has been diagnosed in France, the Health Ministry said on Sunday, in what appeared to be a case of human-to-human transmission.The new infection was found in a patient who had shared a hospital room with the only other confirmed sufferer in France, the ministry said in a statement.Health experts are concerned about clusters of cases of the new coronavirus strain, nCoV, which started in the Gulf ...
VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis on Sunday proclaimed as saints some 800 Italians killed in the 15th century for refusing to convert to Islam, and said many Christians were still being persecuted for their faith.The Vatican seemed at pains not to allow the first canonisations of Francis' two-month-old papacy to be interpreted as anti-Islamic, saying the deaths of the 'Otranto Marytrs' must be understood in their historical context.The 800 were killed in 1480 in the siege ...
SOFIA: Bulgarians began voting Sunday in a tight and tense snap election marred by accusations of fraud and expected to result in political stalemate and fresh protests in the EU's poorest member.Former bodyguard and ex-premier Boyko Borisov's conservative GERB party is expected to win the most votes, even though the biggest demonstrations in 16 years forced his government to resign only three months ago.But pre-vote opinion polls give GERB just 29-35 percent of the vote, ...
