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 Lagos, Nigeria (UPI) Oct 15, 2009 
Nigerian insurgents vowed Thursday to renew their five-year war against Africa's largest oil industry when a unilateral cease-fire expires, even though some of their leaders have surrendered under a government amnesty in recent weeks. Their defiance raised the prospect of a major military offensive against them in their swampy stronghold in the Niger Delta of southern Nigeria.
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Berlin (AFP) Oct 15, 2009German Chancellor Angela Merkel's new coalition has agreed to reverse an earlier decision to abandon nuclear power by 2020, an official involved in talks on a new government programme said Thursday. Germany decided under ex-chancellor Gerhard Schroeder in 2000 to mothball all reactors by 2020, but Merkel and her new coalition partners pledged in their election campaigns to extend the life of ... more
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Prisoners used to shovel snow-bound US capital
Heavy rain, snow disrupts transport in Spain Washington slaps fee on plastic shopping bags Vietnam says parched Red River at record low Philippine volcano darkens New Year for 50,000 villagers Shocked residents survey Australia wildfire wreckage Honduras declares state of emergency amid drought Residents flee terrifying Australian wildfires Sarkozy scrambles to salvage carbon tax Thrill-seeking tourists flock to Philippine volcano 
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Washington (AFP) Oct 14, 2009Cutting greenhouse gases along the lines of a climate bill pending in Congress would modestly impact the US economy over the next few decades, the bipartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) said Wednesday in a report. "Reducing the risk of climate change would come at some cost to the economy," CBO director Douglas Elmendorf told a hearing of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committ ... more 
London (AFP) Oct 15, 2009Nairobi and Beijing are mulling a huge project to develop a port on the Kenyan coast and a corridor creating a new export route for China's oil in Sudan's secessionist south, the Financial Times reported Thursday. China's involvement would come as an alternative to a project floated last year in which Qatar would have invested 3.5 billion dollars in the port in exchange for a lease on a huge ... more 
Tokyo (AFP) Oct 15, 2009A Japanese shipmaker said Thursday it planned to launch the world's first large electric ferry - the latest innovation aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions. A subsidiary of heavy machinery giant IHI Corp. has completed a basic design for a 30-metre (99-foot) long ferry that could carry 800 passengers, powered by rechargeable batteries, a company spokesman said. While smaller batte ... more |
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Detroit, Michigan (AFP) Oct 15, 2009A former Ford Motor Co. engineer was indicted on federal charges of stealing company secrets and trying to sell them in China, officials said Thursday. Xiang Dong, who went by Mike Yu, was charged Wednesday with theft of trade secrets, attempted theft of trade secrets and unauthorized access to a protected computer. Originally from Beijing, Yu was a product engineer for Ford from 1997 to ... more  
Beijing (AFP) Oct 14, 2009China and Russia have shown a desire to push ahead on energy cooperation by signing gas and oil deals in Beijing this week, but major questions remain, especially on pricing, analysts said Wednesday. The agreements signed in Beijing during a visit by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin showed that Russia wants to diversify its client base beyond Europe, while China's appetite for natural ... more  
Beijing (AFP) Oct 14, 2009Leaders from Russia, China and four Central Asian nations on Wednesday pledged to work together to coordinate their responses to the global economic crisis. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, host Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, and leaders from four ex-Soviet countries - Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan - also agreed their top finance officials would meet by year's end. ... more |
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