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New twist in Falklands disputeWashington (UPI) Dec 23, 2011 The low-key but simmering tussle between Britain and Argentina over the Falkland Islands has taken a new symbolic turn. Countries belonging to the Mercosur trading bloc, at a meeting in Montevideo, Uruguay, indicated they viewed the British Overseas Territory off their coast a colonial hang over and agreed to bar ships flying the Falklands flag from their ports. "This territory is a colonial British position in our America," said Uruguayan President Jose Mujica. " All measures ... read more |
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 Iran 'rehearses closing gulf oil route' Iranian naval forces launch a massive 10-day exercise Saturday near the Strait of Hormuz, the only way in and out of the Persian Gulf, in what is widely seen as a rehearsal for a threatened closure of the strategic global oil artery if the country is attacked. ... more | .. |
 Ships, planes attack major Shell oil spill off Nigeria Shell on Friday deployed ships with dispersants and planes in a bid to mop up one of Nigeria's worst offshore oil spills in recent years, a spokesman said, amid fears it could soon reach the shoreline. ... more | .. |
  Westinghouse nuclear reactor gets go-ahead The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission approved Westinghouse's AP1000 nuclear reactor design, clearing the way for construction of the first U.S. reactors in three decades. ... more | .. |
 Hong Kong to restrict foreign homebuyers from 2013 US judge OKs partial settlement in e-book case Nordic-Baltic states seek more cooperation Outside View: Jobs outlook grim Empire-style computers? Frenchman takes PCs to lap of luxury Google-Microsoft field smartphones to take on iPhone 5 EU businesses urge China's new leaders to speed reforms |
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  Australia looks to Nauru for asylum center Australia is looking to reopen an asylum processing center on the Micronesian island of Nauru, at 8 square miles the world's smallest republic. ... more | .. |
  European court upholds airline carbon tax The European Union says it expects foreign carriers to abide by a court ruling upholding the legality of the EU's plans for a carbon tax on airliner emissions. ... more | .. |
 Iraq PM was informed of Exxon deal: Kurdish leader The leader of Iraqi Kurdistan said Friday that a contract the autonomous region signed with US energy giant ExxonMobil was constitutional and claimed Iraq's premier had initially given his assent. ... more | .. |
 Lithuania, Hitachi sign initial nuclear plant deal Lithuania and Japan's Hitachi on Friday signed a preliminary deal on the building of a new nuclear energy facility to replace a plant closed in 2009 in the Baltic state under an EU agreement. ... more |
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'No life without water': settler attacks threaten West Bank communities
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 Eleven dead, 81 hurt in Colombia pipeline blast At least 11 people were killed and more than 80 others were injured Friday when an explosion ripped through a pipeline in western Colombia triggering a deadly inferno, relief agencies said. ... more | .. |
 As Iraq smolders, Kurds sit on oil riches As Iraq looks like collapsing into another sectarian free-for-all, with energy resources a key prize, the semi-autonomous Kurdish region is like an island of stability and security. ... more | .. |
 Paraguay presses for better trade terms Landlocked Paraguay pushed its demand for better terms of economic collaboration and trade with its Mercosur partners, increasingly a sore point because of what Paraguayans see as unfair treatment by Argentina and Brazil. ... more | .. |
  US Internet users not as scam-savvy as they think: study US Internet users are suckers for online scams, especially if the promised prize is a chance at a hip new gadget such as a tablet computer, according to study results released on Thursday. ... more |
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 Australia's Gloucester, China's Yanzhou in tie-up Australia's Gloucester Coal Friday agreed to a merger with China's Yanzhou in a deal valued at some Aus$2.2 billion (US$2.3 billion), a tie-up which will create a major Australia listed coal firm. ... more | .. |
  New Take on Impacts of Low Dose Radiation Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), through a combination of time-lapse live imaging and mathematical modeling of a special l ... more | .. |
 Landmark discovery has magnetic appeal for scientists A fundamental problem that has puzzled generations of scientists has finally been solved after more than 70 years. An international team of scientists has discovered a subtle electronic effect in ma ... more | .. |
 Global Natural Gas Consumption Regains Momentum Driven by surging natural gas consumption in Asia and the United States, global use of the form of fossil fuel rebounded 7.4 percent from its 2009 slump to hit a record 111.9 trillion cubic feet - i ... more |
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Boeing looks for Starliner fixes despite costs, ISS age
ISS update: Crew-11 enters quarantine three weeks before launch | .. |
  Self-healing electronics could work longer and reduce waste When one tiny circuit within an integrated chip cracks or fails, the whole chip - or even the whole device - is a loss. But what if it could fix itself, and fix itself so fast that the user never kn ... more | .. |
  China reports massive vehicle emissions Motor vehicles produced more than 52 million tons of pollutants in China last year, a government report indicates. ... more | .. |
US approves new nuclear plant design The US approved a new nuclear plant design Thursday, paving the way for the country's first new nuclear power facilities since 1996 to be built. ... more | .. |
 Areva's Finnish EPR reactor delayed until August 2014 The start-up of Finland's fifth nuclear reactor, being built by the French-German consortium Areva-Siemens, has been delayed until August 2014, Finnish power company Teollisuuden Voima (TVO) said Thursday. ... more |
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 China says it opposes EU airline emissions charges China Thursday joined Washington in opposing a plan by the European Union to impose carbon emissions charges on all airlines in its airspace from January 1, warning it risked sparking a trade war. ... more | .. |
  China buys stake in Portuguese energy company China Three Gorges Corp. beat competitors Thursday to a 21.35 percent state in Energias de Portugal (EDP), paying 2.7 billion euros as debt-stricken Portugal sells assets to bolster state coffers. ... more | .. |
  Japan cuts growth outlook as yen, disasters weigh Japan on Thursday cut its economic growth forecast for the year to March 2012 and the following 12 months, citing the impact of a soaring yen, natural disasters and the eurozone debt crisis. ... more | .. |
 Toyota eyes 20% global sales growth in 2012 Japan's biggest carmaker Toyota said Thursday it would aim to boost global sales by a fifth next year, seeking growth in emerging markets to counter sluggish demand in the crisis-hit developed world. ... more |
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Western aid cuts cede ground to China in Southeast Asia: study
Russia faces intense barrage of drones, shutting down Moscow airports
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 Former spymaster's firm seeks uranium in Israeli desert An Israeli energy firm run by a former head of the Mossad spy agency is to start prospecting for uranium in the southern Negev desert, the company said on Thursday. ... more | .. |
 Brazilian firms win Boeing aviation deals Two Brazilian companies have contracted to work with Boeing on a range of engineering and logistics projects that give the American company a firmer foothold in the expanding aviation and defense manufacturing sector in Brazil. ... more | .. |
 Brazil police blame Chevron for environmental crime Brazilian Federal Police concluded in a probe on the November 8 oil spill that the local president of US oil giant Chevron and 16 other oil executives committed environmental crimes, local media reported Wednesday. ... more | .. |
 White House hopeful Perry rips Obama on pipeline Texas Governor and Republican White House hopeful Rick Perry on Wednesday denounced President Barack Obama for delaying the approval of a controversial US-Canada pipeline. ... more |
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EU, US lock horns on Europe airline emissions charges Europe and the United States headed for confrontation Wednesday after the EU won key legal backing for its proposal to slap carbon emissions charges on all airlines in its airspace from January 1. ... more | .. |
 Need a new material? New tool can help Thanks to a new online toolkit developed at MIT and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, any researcher who needs to find a material with specific properties - whether it's to build a better m ... more | .. |
 Six jailed in Germany for tax evasion in carbon permit trade A German court jailed six men on Wednesday for tax evasion in the trading of carbon emission permits through the country's biggest bank, Deutsche Bank. ... more | .. |
 Romania restarts nuclear reactor after technical problem A Romanian nuclear reactor closed down on Monday because of a technical problem was restarted on Wednesday, the national operator Nuclearelectrica said. ... more |
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