Europe Gives Ukraine 460 Million Euros To Build Chernobyl Sarcophagus
Kiev (RIA Novosti) Aug 09, 2007
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development will grant Ukraine 330 million euros (about $460 mln) to secure the Chernobyl nuclear power plant to prevent radioactive leaks, the emergencies ministry said. Under an agreement the bank signed with the ministry and the state company overseeing the plant on Tuesday, the funds will be allocated to build a giant protective shield over the fourth ... read more
Iraq Oil Deals Signed Under Saddam Up For Review
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Aug 09, 2007
All contracts concluded by foreign oil companies with Saddam Hussein's regime and the Kurdistan authorities will be reviewed in line with Iraq's new legislation, the Iraqi oil minister said Wednesday. "A draft oil law stipulates that any contract concluded with the previous regime or the Kurdistan autonomy must be reviewed and brought in line with the new law," Hussain al-Shahristani said on arr ... more
Russia Oil Firm Russneft Securities Seized
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Aug 09, 2007
Investigators from Russia's Interior Ministry said Wednesday they had seized on a court order 100% of private oil group RussNeft's securities. The seizure had been requested by the Interior Ministry, whose investigators are conducting a tax evasion and illegal business probe against the company's CEO. "On July 31, Moscow's Lefortovo district court upheld a motion to seize 100% of the company's s ... more
Changing The Rings: A Key Finding For Magnetics Design
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 07, 2007
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology (CNST) have done the first theoretical determination of the dominant damping mechanism that settles down excited magnetic states-"ringing" in physics parlance-in some key metals. Their results, published in the Physical Review Letters, point to more efficient methods to predict the dyn ... more
Russian Hostages Freed In Nigeria
Miami (UPI) Aug 08, 2007
Six Russian hostages held by militants in the Niger Delta were freed after more than two months amid gang violence in Port Harcourt that left at least 15 dead. The six Russians were taken hostage June 3 while working at an aluminum factory run by Russian firm UC RUSAL, the No. 1 producer of aluminum in the world. The captives were among the more than 200 people abducted so far this year by milit ... more
Belarus Pays Gazprom Bill For Russian Natural Gas In Full
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Aug 09, 2007
Belarus has fully paid its $460 million debt for Russian natural gas supplies, ending a dispute between the country and Gazprom, the state-controlled gas giant said Wednesday. "Gazprom today received the last installment of debt payment for Russian gas supplied in the first half of the year," company spokesman Sergei Kupriyanov said. Gazprom threatened last Wednesday to slash gas supplies to Bel ... more
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POLITICAL ECONOMY
China To Severely Punish Those In Tainted Toys Scandal
CAR TECH
US Should Consider Gas Tax Says Ford Chief
CAR TECH
GM Sales In China To Hit One Million Vehicles
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Purdue Milestone A Step Toward Advanced Sensors And Communications
West Lafayette IN (SPX) Aug 08, 2007
Engineers at Purdue University have shown how to finely control the spectral properties of ultrafast light pulses, a step toward creating advanced sensors, more powerful communications technologies and more precise laboratory instruments. The laser pulses could be likened to strobes used in high-speed photography to freeze fast-moving objects such as bullets or flying insects. These laser pulses ... more
WMO Says World Hit By Record Extreme Weather Events In 2007
Geneva (AFP) Aug 07, 2007
Many parts of the world have experienced record extreme weather conditions including unusual floods, heatwaves, storms and cold snaps since the beginning of the year, the UN's weather agency said Tuesday. Preliminary observations also indicated that global land surface temperatures in January and April reached the highest levels ever recorded for those months, the World Meteorological Organisati ... more
Indian Boat Owners Exploit Floods To Make Money
Madhubani, India (AFP) Aug 07, 2007
Yamuna Devi and her children clung to a tree, waving desperately at a passing boat to rescue them. It paddled off as she had no money to pay for a ride to safety in India's flooded Bihar state. "Pay or perish," the boatman screamed, mumbling obscenities as she numbly stared at the retreating vessel filled with people who had paid 40 rupees (one dollar) each for a ride in the state's cut-off Madh ... more
Floods Test Army-Backed Bangladesh Rulers
Dhaka (AFP) Aug 07, 2007
Bangladesh's seven-month-old military-backed government is facing its toughest test yet, with millions of people displaced and the economy badly damaged by the worst floods to hit the country in a decade. Nearly two weeks of flooding has killed hundreds and destroyed crops and infrastructure worth hundreds of millions of dollars, forcing Bangladesh's rulers to turn to the country's besieged poli ... more
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DISASTER MANAGEMENT
Rain And Blocked Roads Hinder Nepal Flood Relief
FARM NEWS
Rivers Recede But Millions Go Hungry In Flooded South Asia
FARM NEWS
Risk Of Contamination Rises As Global Food System Expands
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Time To Withdraw Iraq Oil Law
Washington (UPI) Aug 07, 2007
Iraq's citizens suffer from the August heat, little electricity and fuel. Death is seemingly around every corner. So the time may not be right for an oil law, especially the one the Bush administration wants. United Press International has found a recurring theme over recent months during coverage of the Iraq oil law: creating a law governing the bloodline to Iraq's economy should be less of a p ... more
Nissan Car Catches Drunk Drivers Through Sweaty Palms
Tokyo (AFP) Aug 08, 2007
Motorists tempted to get behind the wheel after one alcoholic drink too many could soon get a ticking off from an unlikely source -- their car. Nissan Motor on Friday announced a new concept car packed with technologies to deter driving while under the influence of alcohol. Inside the gear stick knob is a highly sensitive odor sensor. If alcohol is detected in the perspiration on a driver's palm ... more
Tourism The Casualty For Radiation Leak City
Kashiwazaki, Japan (AFP) Aug 07, 2007
Staring at the few carefree teenagers frolicking about in the water, beach worker Hitoshi Arakawa was full of resentment over a leak at a nearby nuclear plant. "They say the exposure level won't harm people's health, but the very fact that there was radiation leakage kills businesses like ours," Arakawa said furiously, with unsold stocks of corn piled up under his table. Arakawa, 42, is one of t ... more
Porphyrin Electron-Transfer Reactions Observed At The Molecular Level
Philadelphia PA (SPX) Aug 08, 2007
Researchers at Temple University have observed and documented electron transfer reactions on an electrode surface at the single molecule level for the first time, a discovery which could have future relevance to areas such as molecular electronics, electrochemistry, biology, catalysis, information storage, and solar energy conversion. The researchers have published their findings, "Dynamics of P ... more
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ENERGY TECH
Putin Says Recent North Pole Mission To Back Russian Claim To Arctic
ENERGY TECH
A Venezuelan Oil Takeover
CIVIL NUCLEAR
The Iran Nuke Industry Row
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