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 Mogadishu (AFP) June 1, 2009 
The French navy on Monday handed over four suspected pirates, two of them dead, to Somalia's northern breakaway region of Puntland, officials said. Puntland officials said the two were killed by the Indian navy during an attempt to attack a Norwegian-owned Liberian registered vessel with 10 Indian crew in the Gulf of Aden last Thursday. "The French navy handed over four pirates over to ... read more 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Jun 02, 2009VIASPACE has announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding with Auro Infra to develop an agricultural project in Tanzania based on Giant King Grass. Auro Infra is a private company registered in India and the project is led by Indians resident in Tanzania. Located south of the equator in Africa, Tanzania's climate is ideal for growing Giant King Grass, with plentiful rainfall and ... more
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Srinagar, India (AFP) May 29, 2009Providing sleeping facilities might be seen as good management practice at your average, round-the-clock call centre, but in Indian Kashmir it has the advantage of preventing workers getting shot. Opened in 2004, Access Infrastructure was born of a period of relative peace in a region where at least 47,000 people have been killed since an armed insurgency against Indian rule began 20 years ... more  
New Delhi, India (RIA Novosti) May 29, 2009India has dropped Russia from a $1-bln tender to supply six aerial tankers for the Indian Air Force due to poor after-sales maintenance services, the Hindustan Times cited the air force chief as saying. The Indian Air Force has been operating a fleet of Russian Il-78 aerial tankers for six years and announced a global tender for an additional six aircraft three years ago. The Russian Il-78 ... more  
Dhaka (AFP) May 27, 2009Conservationists in Bangladesh and India on Wednesday launched a search in the world's largest mangrove forest for endangered Bengal tigers following a cyclone that killed at least 180 people. The storm caused havoc in the Sundarbans mangrove forest, and drove a tidal wave of saltwater inland. Abani Bhusan Thakur, chief Bangladesh official for the Sundarbans, told AFP the forest had take ... more  
Washington (AFP) May 27, 2009Global carbon dioxide emissions are set to rise 39 percent by 2030 as energy consumption surges in the developing world, notably in Asian giants China and India, the United States warned on Wednesday. The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) said global energy demand would leap 44 percent between 2006 and 2030, fueled by a 73-percent rise in demand from non-developed countries. ... more |
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Shanghai (AFP) May 25, 2009US House of Representatives speaker Nancy Pelosi, a tough critic of China's human rights record, visited Shanghai's financial centre Monday, after meeting a leading Chinese Catholic priest. Pelosi, who has been outspoken on Beijing's rule over Tibet, arrived in China Sunday with a delegation from US Congress and was due to meet national leaders in the nation's capital later. At the start ... more 
New Delhi (AFP) May 25, 2009French firm Dassault Aviation, expelled from a 12-billion-dollar Indian warjet contract, is now likely to rejoin the race with five other global firms vying for the deal, officials said Monday. "Dassault Aviation has been cleared to put up its Rafale fighter jet for field trials," an Indian defence ministry official said, adding that the approval came last week from the government's policy ... more 
Kathmandu (AFP) May 22, 2009Retired Gurkha soldiers in Nepal on Friday hailed as "historic" a British government announcement that the veterans can settle there. The British government said on Thursday all of the Nepalese fighters who retired before 1997 and had served at least four years with the British army could now apply for residency. "This is a historic achievement for all Gurkhas," Jit Bahadur Rai, treasure ... more  
Sydney (AFP) May 22, 2009Global resources giant BHP Billiton announced plans Friday to develop a major new uranium mine in Western Australia after the state lifted a ban on production of the nuclear fuel. The company said it planned to begin producing uranium at its Yeelirrie site in 2014, boosting Australian output of the fuel as demand for nuclear energy grows in countries such as China and India. "Current pla ... more |
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Bangladesh's tigers stalk uncertain future in Sundarbans
More Nepalis drive electric, evading global fuel shocks
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