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Biofuel boom threatens food supplies: Nestle Zurich (AFP) March 23, 2008 
Growing use of such crops wheat and corn to make biofuels is putting world food supplies in peril, the head of Nestle, the world's biggest food and beverage company, warned Sunday. "If as predicted we look to use biofuels to satisfy 20 percent of the growing demand for oil products, there will be nothing left to eat," chairman and chief executive Peter Brabeck-Letmathe said. "To grant en ... read more |
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India woos Africa for resources, influence
New Delhi (AFP) March 23, 2008India is wooing oil and mineral-rich Africa, seeking to match the clout enjoyed by China, as it seeks to fuel its energy-hungry economy and boost its global profile, analysts say. India's overtures to the continent include a business meeting in New Delhi last week where Indian businessmen mingled with delegates from 33 African nations to discuss potential deals worth 10 billion dollars. ... more Indian foreign minister to visit US amid nuclear deadlock 
New Delhi (AFP) March 22, 2008India's foreign minister will visit Washington next week for talks with US leaders, a statement said Saturday, amid uncertainty over a nuclear deal between the two countries. Pranab Mukherjee will "review of all aspects of the India-US bilateral relationship" during talks with his counterpart Condolezza Rice, the Indian foreign ministry statement said, without giving further details. ... more Mubarak to visit Moscow for talks on Mideast, nuclear power 
Moscow (AFP) March 22, 2008Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak will visit Moscow next week for talks centring on the situation in the Middle East and civilian nuclear energy, Egypt's ambassador said Saturday. The visit comes at "a critical moment when the peace process between Israelis and Palestinians is practically frozen and when the situation is getting worse in Gaza," ambassador Ezzat Al-Saied told Interfax news age ... more Sarkozy, Brown to unveil nuclear cooperation plan: report 
London (AFP) March 22, 2008Britain and France will announce a deal to build new nuclear power stations and export the technology worldwide during President Nicolas Sarkozy's state visit next week, the Guardian reported Saturday. Britain approved the construction of a new generation of nuclear plants in January and wants to take advantage of French expertise to help build them, the paper said. The announcement is d ... more Russian environmental watchdog to check TNK-BP 
Moscow (AFP) March 21, 2008Russia's environmental watchdog Rosprirodnadzor said Friday it will check a subsidiary of TNK-BP just days after security services raided the company. osprirodnadzor will check Samotlorneftegaz, a subsidiary that operates in Western Siberia, along with six other companies, for environmental violations according to a statement on the agency's website. The inspections are set to take plac ... more |
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Bangkok (AFP) March 23, 2008Incentives from the Thai government to encourage automakers to produce fuel-efficient "eco-cars" have yielded a raft of major investments and started to change how Thais drive, experts say. Tax breaks for automakers and car buyers were unveiled last year, as the government worried that Thailand's position as the world's biggest maker of light pickups might not be enough to guarantee the futu ... more Analysis: Foreigners ply Volga-Don Canal 
While most discussions of Caspian oil exports revolve around pipelines, since 1991 there has been a mini tanker boom on the inland sea, which services not only domestic markets but also transships oil for transport from Baku's Sangachal terminal via the $3.6 billion, 1,092-mile Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline to Turkey's Mediterranean terminus. The Caspian tanker trade is entirely local. ... more Analysis: Iran and Turkmen gas 
Since the death of Turkmen President Saparmurat Niyazov in December 2006, foreign companies have been falling over themselves to acquire a piece of the country's vast natural gas reserves, estimated during the Soviet era to be between 10 trillion and 14 trillion cubic meters. Among Ashgabat's most ardent suitors are Russia, China, the United States and Iran. Fifteen months later, ... more Analysis: Oil price-speculators link eyed 
Washington (UPI) Mar 20, 2008 Growing demand in Asia, political instability and the falling dollar have all been blamed for high oil prices, but many, including OPEC, increasingly see speculators driving the price of crude. Rising oil prices, which climbed from just above $10 a barrel in the late 1990s to around $100 now, can be attributed to "political tensions and speculation rather than supply shortages," Abdulla ... more |
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Moscow (UPI) Mar 19, 2008 A long gas squabble ended with Gazprom's recognition of Ukraine's main demands. Russian gas monopoly Gazprom announced on March 13 that it came to terms with Ukraine on gas supplies for 2008. In turn, Gazprom received only minor concessions from Ukraine -- an opportunity to settle accounts for January and February supplies through middlemen who will then leave the scene. Althoug ... more Russian nuclear giant teams up with Toshiba: statement 
Moscow (AFP) March 20, 2008Russian nuclear energy giant Atomenergoprom and Japanese industrial corporation Toshiba signed a preliminary cooperation agreement on Thursday, Russia's nuclear ministry said in a statement. "Today's event symbolises the start of large-scale cooperation between two leading companies... in the field of the peaceful use of nuclear energy," Sergei Kiriyenko, head of Russia's nuclear agency, was ... more Science moves closer to tiny electronics 
Boulder, Colo. (UPI) Mar 20, 2008 U.S. scientists have discovered thin films of "metamaterials" can reduce the size of resonating circuits that generate microwaves. National Institute of Standards and Technology researchers said the use of metamaterials - man-made composites engineered to offer strange combinations of electromagnetic properties - is a step toward substantially shrinking the size of electronic devices ... more Thirsty Jordan scrambles to find new water resources 
Amman (AFP) March 20, 2008The desert kingdom of Jordan, one of the 10 most water-impoverished countries in the world, is scrambling to find new resources to meet a chronic shortage of its diminishing "blue gold". Beset by years of drought, the authorities are focusing their energies on two mega projects to develop water resources in a country where 92 percent of the land is desert. They plan to draw water from th ... more
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