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The 13-year-old war in the Democratic Republic of Congo is being fueled by foreign mining and trading companies that are buying minerals from suppliers linked to the various armies plundering the Central African treasure house, according to a watchdog group. Global Witness, a London-based non-governmental organization, identified several of the companies in a report issued Tuesday as Th ... read more 
London (UPI) Jul 22, 2009 North Sea oil and gas production may have passed its peak. But if BP has its way, the steep decline in its U.K. and Norwegian fields will flatten out with daily production stabilizing at some 300,000 barrels of oil equivalent over the next decade. That is about half the Group's North Sea production peak of about five years ago. The North Sea currently accounts for less than 8 percent of ... more
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Bangi, Malaysia (UPI) Jul 22, 2009 Malaysia aims to use nuclear power as an alternative energy source by 2025, a government official said. Nuclear policy has received the go-ahead to be implemented and the government will link up with international organizations such as the United Nations and the International Atomic Energy Agency, said Malaysia's Deputy Science, Technology and Innovation Minister Fadillah Yusof, the New ... more 
Moscow (AFP) July 22, 2009Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Wednesday that Russia should hold a quarter of the international nuclear energy market, as he announced an ambitious development programme. "With ultra-modern technologies and the ability to guarantee the complete cycle, from the production of uranium, to the maintenance and decommissioning of nuclear power plants, Russia can count on a minimum of a qua ... more 
Dar Es Salaam (AFP) July 22, 2009Outgoing International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Mohamed ElBaradei began a two-day visit to Tanzania on Wednesday, holding talks on the country's peaceful use of uranium. The discussions were held with President Jakaya Kikwete and other senior government officials. Deputy Foreign Minister Seif Iddi has said the east African country plans to use its uranium deposits to generate ... more 
Shanghai (AFP) July 22, 2009Heads may have turned when more Chinese firms than ever made Fortune's list of 500 top global companies, but experts say the increase reflects Beijing's power - not companies' competitiveness. An unprecedented 34 firms from mainland China made the list of the world's top companies by revenue, up from 25 last year. Conversely, the number of US firms fell to 140, the lowest since Fortune bega ... more |
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Windhoek (AFP) July 22, 2009A Namibian court Wednesday delayed to next week a bail hearing for three people charged with corruption over a deal to buy security scanners from a firm linked to the son of China's president. "The date for bail applications is set down for next week July 28 and 29," magistrate Pieter van Pletzen ruled. The three accused, including the Africa representative for the state-owned Chinese fi ... more  
Paris (AFP) July 22, 2009A French experts' panel is to recommend introducing a carbon tax on fuel from January 2010, as part of a government drive to slash global warming emissions, the group's head said on Wednesday. The French government announced plans for a new Climate-Energy Contribution, aimed at steering consumers and business away from energy-hungry goods and services, following a nationwide environment conf ... more  
Berkeley CA (SPX) Jul 22, 2009Even Albert Einstein might have been impressed. His theory of general relativity, which describes how the gravity of a massive object, such as a star, can curve space and time, has been successfully used to predict such astronomical observations as the bending of starlight by the sun, small shifts in the orbit of the planet Mercury and the phenomenon known as gravitational lensing. ... more 
College Park MD (SPX) Jul 22, 2009A free online archive of hundreds of historical interviews with the 20th century's greatest physicists has now been launched to aid the research of science writers, academic scholars, teachers, and students. The resource, created by the American Institute of Physics' Niels Bohr Library and Archives, contains both written transcripts and audio recordings of oral histories that date back ... more |
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