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China rushes to clean up oil spill after pipeline blastBeijing (AFP) July 19, 2010 Authorities in northeastern China have mobilised 1,000 vessels to help clean up an oil spill in the Yellow Sea caused by a weekend pipeline explosion and fire, the government said on Monday. Dozens of oil-skimming vessels were working to remove the slick off the port city of Dalian following Friday night's accident which spilled an estimated 1,500 tonnes of crude into the sea, press reports said. Another 1,000 local fishing vessels have been ordered to aid the clean-up operation, the Dalian gov ... read more |
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Washington (AFP) July 19, 2010The 1,200 National Guards that US President Barack Obama ordered to the border with Mexico to help crackdown on smuggling and drug trafficking will begin deploying next month, a senior official said Monday. Alan Bersin, the commissioner of Customs and Border Protection - better known as the "Border Czar" - said the deployment will begin August 1, and that the troops should be fully in plac ... more  
Beijing (AFP) July 19, 2010China has approved plans to build a nuclear power plant in the southwestern region of Guangxi, state media reported Monday, as Beijing makes good on a pledge to boost renewable energy sources. The first phase of the project in Fangchengchang city will involve investing 24 billion yuan (3.5 billion dollars) in two Chinese-made 1.08 gigawatt reactors, the People's Daily said, citing local gove ... more  
Washington (AFP) July 19, 2010None of the anomalies detected close to BP's blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico are threatening the integrity of the capped wellhead, a senior US official said Monday. Seepage found some three miles (1.9 kilometers) from the capped well was not related to the operation to staunch the flow of oil from the wellhead, said US Coast Guard admiral Thad Allen. "We do not believe that is assoc ... more |
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NATO, Russia split on efforts to relaunch security dialogueBrussels (AFP) July 16, 2010 A sharp split emerged Friday between Russia and NATO over how to relaunch their security dialogue, highlighting a lingering mutual mistrust two years after the Russia-Georgia war. The 28 NATO nations rejected a new treaty proposed by Moscow to revamp the NATO-Russia Council, a body created in 2002 for the two former Cold War foes to hold a dialogue on security issues, a NATO diplomat told AFP. "The allies prefer an improvement of the military cooperation with Moscow," the diplomat said after a m ... read more |
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