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The insect influx cannot be stopped completely, but scientists at the Centre for Medical, Agricultural and Veterinary Entomology, part of the US Department of Agriculture s Agricultural Research Service, are working at home and overseas to keep Rift Valley fever and other diseases out of the US. The insect influx cannot be stopped completely, but scientists at the Centre for Medical, Agricultural and Veterinary Entomology, part of the US Department of Agriculture s Agricultural Research...

By Noah Barkin BERLIN (Reuters) - Leaders from the world's major industrialised nations will try to paper over deep divisions on global warming and a range of foreign policy issues when they meet on the Baltic coast this week for a G8 summit. Merkel at the weekend insisted that the United Nations, rather than individual countries or groups of countries, should take the lead in global efforts to combat climate change and acknowledged she was in for a tough summit. Hit by accusations they...