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| The trailer industry and lawmakers are pressing the government to send Haiti thousands of potentially formaldehyde-laced trailers left over from Hurricane Katrina — an idea denounced by some as a crass and self-serving attempt to dump inferior American products on the poor. |
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The global carbon market is expected to total $170 billion this year, a 33 percent jump from 2009, driven mostly by higher prices in Europe and a growth in the nascent carbon market in the United States, according to a new report from Point Carbon, a market analysis firm. |
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| As for the extra-judicial killings by the Colombian military, these were carried out as part of the “false positive” scandal – a controversy involving the military murdering civilians and then dressing them up to look like guerillas in order to increase their body count numbers, thereby guaranteeing further U.S. aid |
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| You read that headline correctly. Unfortunately, the Obama Administration is financing oil exploration off Brazil. |
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| Iran has signed a one-billion-euro (1.44-billion-dollar) deal with a German firm to build 100 gas turbo-compressors, an industry official said in newspapers on Wednesday. |
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| It's round one in the 2010 fight against global warming and Minnesota has landed the first punch against coal-fired electricity that crosses its borders. The state is seeking to place a tariff on carbon dioxide turned out by coal plants in North Dakota. |
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| Jalaluddin Haqqani is "someone who could be reached out to … to negotiate and bring [the Taliban] into the fold," Prince Turki, the former Saudi ambassador to the U.S., told a group of about 80 government and business leaders and journalists over dinner in Washington. |
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| Not only has Gaza effectively become the world’s largest open-air prison, but the walls of the prison have been progressively closing in on its inmate population. |
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| Venezuela and China gave a new boost to their thriving economic ties Tuesday, signing a package of agreements that advances China strategy of locking in access to the South American country’s vast oil reserves. |
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| In the past few days, the wars over the world’s natural resources have been rekindled from the Amazon to the Niger Delta. |
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| Individuals taking a medication to treat depression may experience changes in their personality separate from the alleviation of depressive symptoms, according to a report in the December issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. |
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| Concerned over the supply of oil to the US and a supposed need to continue the global 'War on Terror', President Barack Obama has essentially maintained the militarised approach to Africa that was the hallmark of his immediate predecessors George W. Bush and Bill Clinton. |
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| he five Americans arrested in Pakistan amid suspicion that they were plotting terrorist attacks were transferred on Saturday from the small town where they were seized to a more secure location in a larger city, police said. |
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| Royal Dutch Shell, the Anglo-Dutch energy company, won the right to develop Iraq's giant Majnoon oilfield yesterday, beating Total of France which had long coveted the prize. |
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The 800-pound gorilla standing in the auditorium at
West Point
is still waiting for an answer to why Obama made his surge-speech for 30,000 more troops and $30 billion to pay for them. |
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| The Internal Revenue Service on Thursday auctioned off a large swath of land owned by an impoverished Indian tribe to help pay off more than $3 million in back taxes, penalties and interest—a sale the tribe says is illegal under federal laws protecting Indian land. |
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| Copenhagen is preparing for the climate change summit that will produce as much carbon dioxide as a town the size of Middlesbrough. |
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| An ExxonMobil-led consortium has beaten rival Russian, French and Chinese groups to bag initial rights to develop Iraq’s West Qurna field, the Oil Ministry said. |
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| “AFRICOM facilitates the United States advancing on the African continent, taking control of the Eurasian continent and proceeding to take the helm of the entire globe.”
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| The bourse, based on the Gulf economic free zone island of Kish, has been planned for years but had faced repeated delays. The first phase of the exchange for trading oil products was inaugurated in February. |
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| The Iraqi government said Saturday it has approved a contract with a British-Chinese consortium to develop a prized oil field in southern Iraq, a significant achievement for a country that has struggled to attract foreign investors despite its vast natural resource wealth. |
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| NASA crashed a rocket and a satellite into the moon's surface on Friday morning, a $79 million mission that could determine if there is water on the moon. |
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| The energy giant Exxon Mobil has agreed to pay about $4 billion for a minority stake in an oil field off the coast of Ghana, a region that has emerged as a major new petroleum province, a person with knowledge of the matter said Tuesday. |
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| The United States has reportedly established a secret military training camp just a few kilometres away from Islamabad. It is believed the camp is closely associated with private US defence contractor, DynCorp, which has made no statement on the issue. |
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| This is one of the inconvenient truths about renewable energy: sometimes it demands a huge amount of water. Certain types of solar farms, biofuel refineries and cleaner coal plants could consume billions of gallons every year. "When push comes to shove, water could become the real throttle on renewable energy," said Michael E Webber, an expert and the assistant professor at the University of Texas in Austin. |
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| Iran agreed in principle Thursday to ship most of its current stockpile of enriched uranium to Russia, where it would be refined for exclusively peaceful uses, in what Western diplomats called a significant, but interim, measure to ease concerns over its nuclear program. |
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| The giants of the East are positioned to upset U.S. sanctions on Iran by supplying Tehran with gasoline. |
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| A Colombian hitman recently disclosed to the Venezuelan government that over 2,500 paramilitary fighters are in the country, each chasing a $25 million bounty on the life of Venezuela President Hugo Chavez, according to Arab news network Al Jazeera. |
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| Venezuela's science and technology minister said his country is working with Russia to detect deposits of uranium but withdrew an earlier denial that the country was also working with Iran. |
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| Potentially major oil strikes announced by an American-led consortium and a British company in West Africa have bolstered the region's reputation as the world's hottest energy zone. |
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| A unit of KBR Inc. has been awarded a $2.3 billion engineering, procurement and construction management contract by Chevron Australia Pty Ltd. Kellogg Joint Venture Group will manage the liquefied natural gas downstream and logistics portion of the Chevron-operated Gorgon LNG Project |
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| Hugo Chávez, Venezuela’s combative leftist president, announced a “very large” offshore natural gas find on Friday, which he said would propel the country into the ranks of the world’s biggest gas producers. |
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Venezuela President Hugo Chavez said the South American country plans to develop a nuclear energy program with Russia and doesn’t want to build an atomic bomb. |
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| The US and Russia have given differing responses to Iran's latest proposals on its nuclear programme. |
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Rising tensions between Russia and Georgia over shipping rights to a breakaway Georgian region have opened a potential new theater for conflict between the countries, a little more than a year after they went to war. |
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| Of the 125 NATO officials are estimating in the total death toll, Afghan officials are saying that at least 70 civilians were killed in the U.S.-led NATO airstrike nearby the city of Kunduz. |
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| The statistics, from the oil cartel OPEC, reflect a trend that has seen the Russians periodically surpass the Saudis as the world’s biggest oil producers on and off since 2002. |
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| Japan has serious plans to send a solar-panel-equipped satellite into space that could wirelessly beam a gigawatt-strong stream of power down to earth and power nearly 300,000 homes. |
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| GDF Suez unit gets EU approval to take water firms |
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| Ecuador has seized control of oil fields operated by France’s Perenco as part of a long-running tax dispute that threatens production of 21,000 barrels a day. |
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| The U.S. Army owns nearly 10 million acres of land across the U.S., and it wants more in remote southeastern Colorado, which it says is ideal for intense combat training. The problem is that much of that prairie is owned by ranchers who have run cattle across the plains for generations. And they have balked at turning over their rangeland to Uncle Sam. |
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| Nigeria and Russia are doing deals in nuclear energy and in oil and gas. And there may be military cooperation. |
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Dozens of US cities may have entire neighbourhoods bulldozed as part of drastic "shrink to survive" proposals being considered by the Obama administration to tackle economic decline. |
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| Moldova: Caught between NATO and Russia? |
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The Colorado River is a critical source of water for seven Western states, each of which gets an annual allotment according to a system that has sparked conflict and controversy for decades. But in an era of climate change, even greater difficulties loom. |
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| Russia's state arms exporter, Rosoboronexport, plans to grow the volume of Russian armament and military equipment to Africa over the next four to five years. This comes on top of allegations that Russia is selling arms to smuggling and contraband rings, thereby contributing to conflict on the war-torn continent. |
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| The Canadian think tank’s report goes on to claim that “the ISI has a close relationship with Western intelligence agencies, primarily those of Great Britain and the United States.” |
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| Leaders of the Arab world on Tuesday approved a declaration calling to accelerate a pan-Arab economic integration. The declaration included a call to launch a customs union by 2015 as a prelude to establishing an Arab common market in 2020. |
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| Teams of EU monitors deployed at natural gas transit sites along Ukraine's vast pipeline network, but still no gas flowed to a freezing Europe |
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| The move comes amid a deepening rift between Russia and Ukraine, which hosts a pipeline supplying gas from its bigger neighbour to countries across Europe. |
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| Russia said Wednesday night that it planned to suspend delivery of natural gas to Ukraine on Thursday morning after negotiations to resolve a politically tinged dispute over prices collapsed without an agreement. |
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| The new strategic vision, more than a year in the making, calls for Brazil to invest more in military technology, including satellites, and to build a nuclear-powered submarine fleet that would be used to protect territorial waters and Brazil's deepwater oil platforms |
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| Chinese bargain hunters are preparing to descend on American cities such as Los Angeles and San Francisco, where homeowners have suffered some of the steepest price falls in the US. |
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| OPEC says global markets should prepare for a "surprise" output cut. |
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