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Russia FM in Libya for nuclear talks Tripoli (AFP) Dec 23, 2007 
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov held talks in Libya on Sunday as the longtime pariah state consolidated its return to the international fold.
Lavrov had been expected to offer Russian help for Libya's plans to develop a civil nuclear power programme, barely four years after it renounced efforts to develop a non-conventional arsenal in a move that launched its rapprochement with the We ... read more
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Supertanker seized over SKorea's worst oil spill: officials
Seoul (AFP) Dec 26, 2007A Hong Kong-registered supertanker at the centre of South Korea's worst oil spill has been impounded until clean-up costs of more than 11 million dollars are paid, anti-pollution officials said Wednesday. The 147,000-tonne Hebei Spirit was seized after a writ was filed by the Korea Marine Pollution Response Corporation, an association of owners of tankers and oil storage facilities. "We ... more Taiwan nuclear power plant could run for extra 20 years: regulator 
Taipei (AFP) Dec 24, 2007Taiwan's nuclear power policy regulator said Monday that the island's first nuclear power plant could keep running for another 20 years after its operation licence expires in 2017. "The safety evaluation of the first nuclear power plant has been completed," Su Hsien-chang, head of the Cabinet-level Atomic Energy Council, told reporters. "That is to say, the plant could operate for anoth ... more Walker's World: The best Christmas present 
London (UPI) Dec 24, 2007 The best Christmas present the creaking global economy could hope to receive would be sudden agreement on the Doha Round of the world trade talks. Fat chance. It looks further away than ever, after Brazil and Canada just launched a new complaint against U.S. farm subsidies and India swore to block U.S. anti-dumping proposals. This need not be a disaster, given that world trade has been ... more Chinese companies mull Rio Tinto options: report 
Hong Kong (AFP) Dec 24, 2007China has sanctioned state-owned companies to examine three possible strategies to block BHP Billiton's proposed takeover of mining giant Rio Tinto, a report said Monday. Citing unnamed sources, the South China Morning Post reported strategies include forming a domestic consortium to bid for Rio Tinto, a joint bid by domestic and foreign firms, or purchasing Rio shares on the open market. ... more Mexico planted 250 million trees in 2007: Calderon 
Mexico City (AFP) Dec 23, 2007President Felipe Calderon on Sunday said Mexico in 2007 planted nearly 250 million trees, one fourth of the world total the UN Environment Program (UNEP) had set to combat climate change. "We're reaching the goal we set for ourselves that seemed so difficult to reach, of planting 250 million trees in Mexico," Calderon told reporters as he planted a pine tree in the grounds of his official Lo ... more |
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Tehran (AFP) Dec 24, 2007Iran's first home-built nuclear power plant is scheduled to come online in around nine years, a top MP said on Monday, citing a report by the Iranian atomic energy organisation. A Russian contractor is building Iran's first atomic power plant in the southern city of Bushehr but the 360 megawatt plant in Darkhoyen in the western Khuzestan province would be its first using domestic technology. ... more Indonesia's tsunami reconstruction chief lauds progress 
Jakarta (AFP) Dec 23, 2007When Kuntoro Mangkusubroto dashed in to lead reconstruction of Indonesia's Aceh in the wake of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, it was with little immediate help from his own government. Despite leading an organisation set up by presidential decree in May 2005, Mangkusubroto was forced to go cap in hand to Australia's aid agency for the money to fly his team out to the flattened provincial cap ... more Russian Christmas trees struggle to be merry 
Moscow (AFP) Dec 23, 2007Valentina Zhigulina sounds less than festive as she displays her stack of Christmas trees at a central Moscow bazaar. "They're rather prickly," she warns. And not just prickly: the typical, khaki-coloured Russian Christmas tree is spindly, sheds needles in a hurry, and appears to have been battered in a Siberian storm. As Yelena, a Moscow city employee shopping under a light snowfall ... more Sri Lanka's cinnamon farmers seek divine help to spice up trade 
Seenigama, Sri Lanka (AFP) Dec 23, 2007Sri Lanka at the weekend revived an ancient ritual of offering the first cinnamon harvest to the gods, three years after a devastating tsunami wiped out centuries-old plantations here. In a pageant involving traditional dancers and elephants, farmers resplendent in white walked three kilometres (two miles) in bright sunshine, carrying 90 kilos (41 pounds) of their precious virgin harvest to ... more |
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Washington (UPI) Dec 19, 2007 The euro is riding high and the dollar is weak. European car sales boom while Detroit suffers. European growth rates are recovering and the United States is slipping toward recession. The Fed seems unable to do much about the U.S. financial crisis, while the European Central Bank has just swamped the market by pumping $500 billion in low-interest funding into liquidity and forced lendi ... more Kashmir lake tourist jewel has become 'cesspool': report 
Srinagar, India (AFP) Dec 20, 2007Dal Lake, Indian Kashmir's top tourist attraction, has become a "cesspool" and huge efforts are needed to save it, a court-appointed committee said, according to a report on Thursday. The lake, ringed by mountains and celebrated by admirers as Kashmir's shimmering centrepiece, is being flooded by raw sewage and silt, said the committee, formed by the state's high court in 2002 to oversee cle ... more EU commissioner warns against buying 'cheap and tacky' toys 
Berlin (AFP) Dec 22, 2007A top European official warned consumers against buying "cheap and tacky" toys this Christmas, and promised new measures next month to make playthings safer, in an interview appearing Sunday. German European Commission Vice President Guenter Verheugen told the Bild am Sonntag weekly that people should "open their eyes" when buying toys, and beware particularly of "tacky unbranded products." ... more El Nino Affected By Global Warming 
Paris, France (SPX) Dec 21, 2007The climatic event El Nino, literally "the Baby Jesus", was given its name because it generally occurs at Christmas time along the Peruvian coasts. This expression of climatic variability, also called El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO), results from a series of interactions between the atmosphere and the tropical ocean. It induces drought in areas that normally receive abundant rain and, conver ... more
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