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 Rome (AFP) Sept 14, 2009 
Italian authorities have discovered a ship that was sunk by the mafia off the coast of southern Italy with 120 barrels of radioactive waste on board, a local prosecutor said Monday. The 110-metre (360-feet) long ship was found on Saturday 500 metres (1,640 feet) under water and around 28 kilometres (17 miles) from the coast of Calabria, Paola city prosecutor Bruno Giordano told AFP. ... read more 
Geneva (AFP) Sept 14, 2009China lodged a complaint against US tariffs on Chinese tyres at the World Trade Organisation on Monday, deepening a trade row as US President Barack Obama denied that the move amounted to protectionism. "The United States has adopted protective measures against Chinese tyres shipped to the United States. This is a violation of WTO rules," said Chinese commerce ministry spokesman Yao Jian. ... more
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Brussels (AFP) Sept 15, 2009BMW and Mazda lead the way in cutting auto emissions, well ahead of their rivals in the hunt for cleaner cars as new European Union targets begin to bear green fruit, a report showed Tuesday. Taking cars made by 14 major automakers into account, the average CO2 fall per car was put at 3.3 percent, the European Federation for Transport and Environment said. German automaker BMW achieved ... more 
Geneva (AFP) Sept 14, 2009China's massive fiscal stimulus may have been the engine that has lifted Asian intra-regional trade in recent months, a joint report by the World Trade Organisation, OECD and UNCTAD said Monday. "The fact that China's imports grew twice as fast as its exports in July also suggests that intra-Asian trade could be benefiting from the country's fiscal stimulus," said the report. Trade flows ... more  
Tokyo (AFP) Sept 14, 2009Japan's incoming government plans to oblige US forces stationed in the country to clean up any environmental damage when they move bases, a report said Monday. The coalition led by the centre-left Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), which takes power this week, wants to add an environmental clause to the Japan-US Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA), the Sankei newspaper said, without naming its ... more |
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Dubai (AFP) Sept 14, 2009The UAE has delayed awarding a 41 billion dollar contract to build nuclear power plants saying that the decision between the three rival bidders was too close to call, an Abu Dhabi daily said Monday. "What happened ultimately was some of the bids were so close in some areas, we decided to proceed with all three," a senior government official told The National. "It will mean a slightly longer ... more 
New York (AFP) Sept 14, 2009Oil prices pulled back Monday amid fears that a US-China trade row could derail a fragile global economic recovery, adding to pressure from an oversupply of crude. New York's main contract, light sweet crude for October delivery, finished at 68.86 dollars a barrel, down 43 cents from Friday's closing level. London's Brent North Sea crude for October dropped 25 cents to settle at 67.44 ... more 
Vienna (AFP) Sept 14, 2009The International Atomic Energy Agency on Monday formally appointed Yukiya Amano of Japan as its new director general from December 1, amid the stalemate over Iran's disputed nuclear ambitions. Amano, 62, refused to give any indication as to how he might kick-start the IAEA's stymied investigation into Tehran's nuclear programme, but insisted that dialogue was the only way forward. ... more |
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