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China's Wen hits back at Japan in rare earths rowBrussels (AFP) Oct 6, 2010 Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao hit back at Japan Wednesday in a row about shipments of rare earth minerals, threatening fresh strains between the northeast Asian giants over a key high-tech resource. "We will not block the rare earth market," Wen told an audience of business figures in Brussels ahead of a fractious summit with EU leaders marred by a dispute over the yuan and other differences. Rare earths, of which China is currently the main world producer, are essential elements used in everything ... read more |
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Berlin (UPI) Oct 5, 2010 The ongoing solar energy boom in Germany is pushing up power prices, an energy industry group claims. Prices for electricity rose by 2.1 percent in Germany during the first half of this year, the German Association of the Energy and Water Industries, or BDEW, said Monday. The energy industry lobby group credited mainly the billions of dollars in levies paid by German taxpayers fo ... more  
Brussels (AFP) Oct 6, 2010China and the European Union wound up a tug-of-war summit Wednesday failing to bridge wide rifts on a gamut of issues ranging from trade to human rights. "As in any true partnership, the EU and China have commonalities but also differences of approach," said EU president Herman Van Rompuy in a short statement released as the divisive one-day get-together wrapped up. "This should not impe ... more  
Washington (AFP) Oct 6, 2010President Barack Obama's administration initially underestimated the size of the BP oil spill, weakening public trust in the government, a report to an investigatory commission said Wednesday. The strongly worded report was written by staff researchers and presented to the national commission, which has been tasked by Obama with presenting findings by January 2011 on the world's worst-ever o ... more |
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Leaders of China, Japan ease rift in chance summit encounterBrussels (AFP) Oct 5, 2010 Leaders of China and Japan, locked in the fiercest bilateral dispute in years, mended fences at a chance post-dinner Brussels encounter, a first step to restoring ties between the Asian powers. Asked Tuesday whether the encounter was arranged by a third party, Japanese government press secretary Satoru Sato said in the EU capital that the meeting "happened suddenly" and "naturally." The evening meeting between Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao at an Asia-Europe summ ... read more |
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