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Bill Gates urges US to put billions behind energy revolutionWashington (AFP) June 13, 2010 Microsoft founder Bill Gates urged the United States Sunday to invest billions of dollars a year to bring about a clean energy revolution that would free it from dependence on oil. In an interview with ABC "This Week," Gates said the disastrous oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico raises the question "how did we get an energy infrastructure that is this fragile?" Gates and his American Energy Innovation Council last week called for an 11-billion-dollar increase in annual investment in research and de ... read more |
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Beijing (AFP) June 14, 2010Operations at a Honda parts factory in southern China were expected to return to normal Monday after nearly a week of disruption over a pay dispute, company and local officials said. The Honda Lock factory in the southern province of Guangdong is one of a string of factories in China - and the third in the Honda family - hit by a wave of industrial unrest in the so-called "workshop of the ... more  
Paris (AFP) June 12, 2010The North Atlantic Ocean is looking more like a rubbish bin, with plastic and polystyrene flotsom spreading far and wide, according to four French explorers just back from eight months at sea. Once out of the Brittany port of Trinite-sur-Mer in October, they typically spotted at least four to five pieces of trash a day - only to sail into a veritable floating dump in April in the Sargasso S ... more  
Sofia (AFP) June 11, 2010Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov spoke out Friday against a Russian oil pipeline and a Russian-backed nuclear power plant agreed by the previous government. Borisov, who has repeatedly expressed reservations about the projects, stopped short of saying the Burgas-Alexandroupolis oil pipeline and the Belene nuclear power plant would be scrapped. "I don't see it necessary to even disc ... more |
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Putin visits France amid warship rowParis (AFP) June 10, 2010 Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin arrived in Paris Thursday for a series of talks with French leaders and to open a big exhibition, but a row over a warship sale could put a damper on the fete. Putin told AFP in an interview on the eve of his visit that a deal on the Mistral-class assault ship, now under negotiation for more than five months, is possible only if the vessel comes equipped with cutting-edge technology. France has said it will not lump sophisticated radar systems and other sens ... read more |
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