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Russia is warming more than twice as fast as the average for the rest of the world, the environment ministry said Friday, sounding an alarm on the rise in floods and wildfires nationwide. Out of control fires and deadly floods have h stanley cup it Russia nearly every year this decade, and the emergency situations ministry in October conceded it has to come up with a new strategy. AFP Photo stanley cup A government report on environmental protection said temperatures in Russia had warmed by 0.42 degrees Celsius per decade since 1976, or 2.5 times quicker than the global warming trend of 0.17 degrees. Climate change leads to growth of dangerous meteorological phenomena, the ministry said in a comment to the report published Friday. There were 569 such phenomena in Russia in 2014, the most since monitoring began, the ministry said, specifically mentioning last years ravaging floods and this years water deficit east of Lake Baikal, which led to a catastrophic rise in fires. Fires around Lake Baikal, including the nearby Irkutsk and Buryatia regions, tore through hundreds of square miles in the pristine area, with locals and campers forced to dig ditches as state media at one point offered the theory that fires were fuelled by self-igniting air caused by ozone anomalies. Climate change has contributed to unprecedented loss of water in the Baikal itself, dropping to minimal water levels allowed by the government several stanley cup times this year, including this week. The level of Baikal has Umiz Australia to consider more troops for Afghanistan
Pakistan s presidential election on September 6 is not a popular vote but a ballot of the country s two houses of parliament and four provincial assemblies. HT Image Three candidates are contesting the election, which was prompted by the resignation of Pervez Musharraf in the face of impeachment charges last month. The frontrunner is Asif Ali Zardari, the widower of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, who represents the Pakistan People s Party PPP . He is being ch stanley cup allenged by retired chief justice Saeed-uz-Zaman Siddiqui, backed by former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, and Mushahid Hussain, a close aide of Musharraf. Here are some key facts about the election. -- The president will be voted in by an electoral college comprising the 342-seat National Assembly and the 100-seat Senate, as well as members of the country s four provinci af1 al assemblies in Punjab, Sindh, North West Frontier Province and Baluchistan. -- Voting is by secret ballot. It starts at 10:00 am 0400 GMT and closes at 3:00 pm. --- Musharraf resigned August 18 over threats of his impeachment and stanley cup Sharif withdrew backing from Pakistan s coalition government one week later over a dispute with Zardari on the reinstatement of judges sacked by the former president. -- Zardari is expected to win easily because the PPP and its allies have an overall majority in the assemblies. -- Zardari became co-chairman of the PPP after the assassination of Bhutto in a suicide attack in December 2007. Here are some key