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 Paris (AFP) Oct 23, 2009 
The surge in China's steel production has brought the global output level close to what it was before the start of the global economic crisis, the World Steel Association said on Friday. Production in the 66 members of the association, which includes the main metal producers in the world, has been growing since April and was 0.6 percent lower in September than in September 2008 at 107 ... read more 
Sydney (AFP) Oct 25, 2009A 3,000-kilometre (1,860-mile) solar car race across Australia's desert heartland began in the northern city of Darwin Sunday, organisers said. The cars left Darwin in hot and humid weather at about 8:30 am (2300 GMT Saturday) on the journey that is expected to end mid-week in the South Australian city of Adelaide. "We had 32 vehicles start this morning," Mike Drewer, a spokesman for the ... more
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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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Tehran (AFP) Oct 25, 2009Iran will allow a team of UN inspectors access to its controversial second uranium enrichment plant on Sunday to check whether the newly disclosed facility was created for peaceful nuclear purposes. Inspection of the plant, being built inside a mountain near the Shiite holy city of Qom, comes as US President Barack Obama garnered support from France and Russia for a separate UN-brokered deal ... more  
Ashgabat (AFP) Oct 23, 2009Turkmenistan has completed construction on its part of a 7,000 kilometre (4,350 mile) natural gas pipeline from Turkmenistan to China, state media announced Friday. "Work on the Turkmen section of the Turkmenistan-Uzbekistan-Kazakhstan-China gas pipeline... is complete," state newspaper Neutral Turkmenistan reported. The pipeline, which will transport Turkmen natural gas from the Caspian ... more 
Tokyo (AFP) Oct 22, 2009For people fed up with their mobile telephone or iPod batteries running out, Japan's Toshiba Corp. announced Thursday the launch of a portable fuel-cell that can power up digital gadgets on the move. With an injection of methanol, the fuel-cell generates electricity through a chemical reaction with oxygen to recharge mobile digital electronic devices via a USB cable. The high-tech giant ... more |
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Tehran (AFP) Oct 24, 2009Iran would be better off buying nuclear fuel directly than entering into a UN-brokered deal for a third party to enrich its uranium, a senior lawmaker said on Saturday. Alaeddin Borujerdi, head of parliament's national security and foreign policy committee, also said Iran's low-enriched uranium (LEU) should be retained and used in power plants. "It is better to buy 20 percent enriched ... more  
Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia (AFP) Oct 22, 2009Cinta, a baby orangutan found lost and alone in a vast Borneo palm oil plantation, now clings to a tree at a sanctuary for the great apes, staring intently at dozens of tourists. She is one of the casualties of the boom in palm oil -- used extensively for biofuel and processed food like margarine -- which has seen swathes of jungle felled in Borneo, an island split between Malaysia and ... more 
Abuja, Nigeria (UPI) Oct 22, 2009 Nigeria's government plans to allocate 10 percent of its oil revenue for the troubled Niger Delta region, which produces most of the country's crude, in a new bid to stamp out a tribal insurgency that has cut oil output by one-third. But critics say that the money, far from appeasing the impoverished Ijaw tribes of the swampy region and buying off the rebels, will only vanish into ... more |
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