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Chavez to fight on for a third termCaracas, Venezuela (UPI) Feb 3, 2011 Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, beset by problems of economic slowdown for the second consecutive year, announced he would fight on and seek re-election next year for a third six-year term. Chavez suffered setbacks in last year's National Assembly elections that depleted his comfortable majority but, as widely anticipated, he reacted by hinting he wouldn't hesitate to issue a presidential decree if and when he faced opposition on a particular issue. With most of Venezuelan media muted ... read more |
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  Malaysian forests destroyed for palm oil Massive draining of Malaysia's peat swamp forests for palm oil production could lead to the complete loss of forests in the state of Sarawak by the end of this decade, a study warns. ... more | .. |
 'Radical' clean energy shift could save 4 tn euros: WWF The environmental group WWF argued on Thursday that a radical, near total elimination of oil and shift to clean energy within 40 years would generate four trillion euros ($5.4 trillion) in savings a year. ... more | .. |
 Iraqi Kurdistan resumes pumping oil to export line Iraqi Kurdistan has begun pumping oil to an export pipeline to test disused infrastructure, with exports due to resume soon, a source and the company operating there said on Thursday. ... more | .. |
  Brazil industry losing market share to China: group Competition with top trading partner China is costing Brazilian industry valuable market share, the National Confederation of Industry (CNI) in South America's largest economy said Thursday. ... more |
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 Estonians find stolen Czech carbon credits Estonian authorities have found carbon credits stolen from the Czech Republic on an Estonian registry listed as belonging to non-Estonian nationals, an Estonian official said Thursday. ... more | .. |
 US judge: oil claims official not independent of BP The administrator of BP's $20 billion oil spill compensation fund has been influenced by the British oil giant and must stop telling victims he is independent, a US federal judge said Wednesday. ... more | .. |
  Mexico supplies electricity to wintry Texas Mexico's state electricity company on Wednesday started supplying electricity to the US state of Texas, where demand shot up amid unusually cold temperatures and caused power outages. ... more | .. |
 Neiker-Tecnalia Creates Air-Conditioned Greenhouse With Alternative Energies Neiker-Tecnalia (The Basque Institute for Agricultural Research and Development) has created an air-conditioned greenhouse using alternative energies that enable the reduction of energy costs, impro ... more |
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  UMD Advance Lights Possible Path To Creating Next Gen Computer Chips University of Maryland researchers have made a breakthrough in the use of visible light for making tiny integrated circuits. Though their advance is probably at least a decade from commercial use, t ... more | .. |
 Argentine commodities suffer over strike Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner ordered leaders of dock workers' unions to end strikes that threaten to cripple the Latin American country's exports of grain and other commodities. ... more | .. |
  A Cool Way To Make Glass Quantum mechanics, developed in the 1920s, has had an enormous impact in explaining how matter works. The elementary particles that make up different forms of matter - such as electrons, protons, ne ... more | .. |
 Indian outsourcing sees strong rebound India's flagship outsourcing sector said Wednesday it expected to post 19 percent export growth in the current financial year, as it rebounds from the global economic crisis. ... more |
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  Sweden kicks off large-scale nuclear accident exercise Swedish authorities on Wednesday kicked off the country's largest-ever crisis management exercise on what to do in the event of an accident at one of its nuclear plants. ... more | .. |
 License row holds up Indonesia's coal The Indonesian government has blocked shipments of at least 3.5 million tons of coal since Jan. 15 because of trading permit delays, an industry group said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
 Study wants EU to recycle rare earths A study commissioned by the European Greens urges the European Union to adopt a body-wide rare earths recycling scheme to protect the environment and reduce dependency on unpredictable supplier China. ... more | .. |
 Animals at nuclear sites trapped, tested Scientists testing for radiation at a South Carolina site where materials were refined for U.S. nuclear weapons say they're looking at the area's animals. ... more |
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Trump, Putin agree to meet next week in Alaska
Iran will not allow Trump-backed corridor linking Azerbaijan to exclave; Russia cautious
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  United Solar Announces World Record Thin-Film Silicon Cell Efficiency United Solar has announced that the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has confirmed an initial 12% conversion efficiency of a large-area solar cell using UNI-SOLAR's proprietary Nano-Cryst ... more | .. |
 US Energy Enters Into Acquisition, Exploration And Development Agreement U.S. Energy has announced it has entered into an acquisition, exploration and development agreement with a private party in an oil and gas prospect located in Southeast Colorado. Under the ter ... more | .. |
 Iraqi Kurdistan to resume oil exports 'soon' Iraqi Kurdistan is preparing to resume oil exports "soon" after a long standoff with central government authorities in Baghdad, the autonomous region's prime minister said Wednesday. ... more | .. |
 Enecsys Solar PV Micro-Inverter Gain UL Certification Enecsys Limited, a solar PV micro-inverter company, has announced UL certification for its products. The patented design of the Enecsys Micro-inverter uses a rugged topology that eliminates electrol ... more |
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 Endeavor Power Recycles 250,000 Pounds Of Electronic Waste Per Month Endeavor Power has announced it has achieved its initial operating goals. The company has reached multiple milestones, including establishing a fully functional metals division offering total recycl ... more | .. |
 China biggest luxury goods market by 2020: report China will be the world's biggest luxury goods market by 2020, a report said Wednesday, as its economy booms and an emerging middle class spends a growing chunk of their cash on high-end items. ... more | .. |
 Undersea electricity cable envisioned Scottish authorities say they are examining the feasibility of stringing an undersea electrical power cable linking Scotland and Norway. ... more | .. |
Argentina, Brazil pledge joint projects Brazil's nuclear and security industries are set to benefit from new agreements signed after a summit between Presidents Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner and Brazil's recently inaugurated President Dilma Rousseff. ... more |
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Early Earth may have had active plate tectonics far sooner than thought
Comet debris signs found in Baffin Bay sediments linked to Younger Dryas cooling
Lioness present in northeast C.Africa for first time in years; New species teem in Cambodia's threatened karst | .. |
 Scania Receives Large Order For Biofuel Buses In Sweden Scania has received an order for 158 buses from public transport company Keolis Sverige. By ordering buses that run on biofuels, the company strengthens its position in sustainable urban transport. ... more | .. |
 New Transistors: An Alternative To Silicon And Better Than Graphene Smaller and more energy-efficient electronic chips could be made using molybdenite. In an article appearing online January 30 in the journal Nature Nanotechnology, EPFL's Laboratory of Nanoscale Ele ... more | .. |
 BP logs first annual loss since 1992 on oil spill disaster Crisis-hit BP reported its first annual loss in almost two decades on Tuesday, as a result of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster, and outlined fresh plans to shift focus away from the United States. ... more | .. |
 Samsung offers full refund for Intel chip Samsung Electronics, the world's largest maker of memory chips, said Tuesday it would fully refund customers who had bought its personal computers built with a flawed chipset from Intel Corp. ... more |
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Australian jailed in China as spy: Canberra An Australian educational recruiter is serving a life jail sentence in China after being convicted more than three years ago of spying for Taiwan, a report said Friday. ... more | .. |
 Rentech Fuels First Cross-Country Drive On 100 Percent Synthetic Diesel Rentech has announced that its synthetic RenDiesel fuel is powering an Audi A3 TDI in a cross-country drive from California to Washington D.C. for the first time. The cross-country trek follow ... more | .. |
 Malaysian peatswamps obliterated for palm oil: study Peatswamp forests home to such species as the Borneo pygmy elephant are being obliterated in Malaysian Borneo to make way for palm oil plantations, according to a study released Tuesday. ... more | .. |
 Duke Energy And SunEdison Announce Completion Of Solar Farm Duke Energy and Sun Edison have announced the activation of the final phases of a 17.2 megawatt (MW) solar farm in Davidson County, N.C. Constructed in five phases and covering over 200 acres ... more |
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