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Hard Energy Dialog: Lose In The West, Gain In The East Moscow (RIA Novosti) Oct 25, 2006 
Russian state-owned oil company Rosneft and China's CNPC have signed a protocol to set up a joint venture, Vostok Energy, to develop and produce mineral resources in Eastern Siberia. China will finance the development stage in exchange for access to Russian deposits and stable deliveries of oil and petrochemicals. The venture's authorized capital will be $10 million. Rosneft will control 51% in the company, and CNPC will hold the remaining 49%. CNPC became Rosneft's official partner in March 2006, when the two companies signed a memorandum to establish a venture. Among other things, the new company will conduct geological and exploration work in Russia, develop mineral deposits and obtain licenses for the use of mineral resources. |
Philippines evacuates one million, woman dead as super typhoon nears
Philippines evacuates hundreds of thousands as super typhoon nears India mega-zoo in spotlight again over animal acquisitions Winds, rain lash Philippines as super typhoon nears Four Brazilians to watch at COP30 Three dead in Spain's Tenerife as rough seas batter island COP30: Indigenous peoples vital to humanity's future, Brazilian minister tells AFP Philippines halts search for typhoon dead as huge new storm nears Chinese ship scouts deep-ocean floor in South Pacific No picnic: How to survive a bear encounter in Japan 
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WWF Warns Of Dire Impact From Global Over-Consumption
Geneva (AFP) Oct 24, 2006The world's population will be using twice as many resources as the planet can produce within 50 years unless there is immediate change in the way humanity lives, the environmental group WWF said in a report released on Tuesday. "We are in serious ecological overshoot, consuming resources faster than the earth can replace them," said WWF Director General James Leape. EU Gives Green Light To French Nuke Power Station 
Brussels (AFP) Oct 24, 2006The European Commission announced on Tuesday that it had given the green light for the construction of a nuclear power plant in northern France. "The European Commission has sent the French authorities a favourable opinion on the investment project for the construction of an EPR -- an ordinary pressurised water reactor with a power output of 1630 megawatts -- at the Flamanville site," the European Union's executive arm said. China Says Wolfowitz Criticisms Of Chinese African Loans Groundless 
Beijing (XNA) Oct 25, 2006China said on Tuesday criticisms that its loans to Africa failed to take into account local human rights situations were "groundless" and "unacceptable". Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Liu Jianchao made the remarks at a regular press conference when asked to comment on World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz's reported remarks that China had ignored the human rights situation in African countries when providing loans. |
Climate Change Could Lead To More Failed States Warns British FM
London (AFP) Oct 24, 2006Global warming is exacerbating disputes over access to water and food resources, and could lead to more failed states, British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett warned in an interview published in the Financial Times on Tuesday. "There are nations in a very delicate condition and (global warming) will tip some of them over into being failed states," Beckett told the newspaper in Berlin. Soot From Wood Stoves Impacts Global Warming More Than Expected 
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 25, 2006New measurements of soot produced by traditional cook stoves used in developing countries suggest that these stoves emit more harmful smoke particles and could have a much greater impact on global climate change than previously thought, according to a study scheduled to appear in the Nov. 1 issue of the American Chemical Society journal Environmental Science and Technology. Australia Pumps More Cash Into Drought-Hit Farms 
Canberra (AFP) Oct 24, 2006Australia will pump more cash into a multi-billion dollar relief package for farmers as the worst drought in living memory threatens economic growth, the government said Tuesday. An extra 560 million dollars (420 million US) in drought assistance will be extended to a further 44 farming regions scorched by the six-year "big dry", Deputy Prime Minister Mark Vaile said. This is on top of 350 million dollars announced last week and takes the total relief provided since the drought began to bite in 2001 to 2.16 billion dollars. |
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It Took More than One Punch To KO the Dinos
Boulder CO (SPX) Oct 25, 2006There's growing evidence that the dinosaurs and most their contemporaries were not wiped out by the famed Chicxulub meteor impact, according to a paleontologist who says multiple meteor impacts, massive volcanism in India, and climate changes culminated in the end of the Cretaceous Period. Trotting With Emus To Walk With Dinosaurs 
Laramie WY (SPX) Oct 25, 2006One way to make sense of 165-million-year-old dino tracks may be to hang out with emus, say paleontologists studying thousands of dinosaur footprints at the Red Gulch Dinosaur Tracksite in northern Wyoming. Because they are about the same size, walk on two legs and have similar feet, emus turn out to be the best modern version of the enigmatic reptiles that once trotted along a long-lost coastline in the Middle Jurassic. Russia Tests Bird Flu Vaccine 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Oct 25, 2006Clinical tests of a bird flu vaccine, developed by the Russian Health Ministry's state-owned Science and Production Association Mikrogen in conjunction with the Academy of Medical Sciences, have been conducted in the last three months. The tests involved 240 healthy volunteers, separated into two groups numbering 120 men and women each. All of them received insurance policies and benefits in line with international standards. Mikrogen general director Dr. Anton Katlinsky said the tests had produced encouraging results. |
Chirac Says Partnership With China At The Heart Of Foreign Affairs
Paris (XNA) (SPX) Oct 25, 2006French President Jacques Chirac has said that forging a France-China partnership is "at the heart of France's foreign affairs," as "everybody in his country knows that the world's future lies greatly with China. China is also clear that it can always find in France its partner, who is independent and who is willing to work together with China in building a balanced world," said Chirac, in a written interview with Xinhua on Monday. First Time In 2006 Venice Swamped By Aaqua Alta 
Venice (AFP) Oct 24, 2006A steep rise in sea levels swamped part of the historic lagooon city of Venice on Tuesday, the first "aqua alta" (high water) of the year. Venice was hit by the common seasonal phenomenon combined with a depression that pushed water levels up to a peak of 1.12 meters (three feet, eight inches) before receding, the city's flood center said in a communique. Amazon River Reversed Flow 
Chapel Hill NC (SPX) Oct 25, 2006Ask any South American dinosaur which way the Amazon River flows and she would have told you east-to-west, the opposite of today. That's the surprising conclusion of researchers studying ancient mineral grains buried in the Amazon Basin. The once westward roll of what is now the world's largest river was caused by a long-gone highland near what today is the river's mouth. |
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