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 Dharamshala, India (AFP) Oct 22, 2009 
Chinese soldiers executed three Tibetans for their role in unrest that shook the region last year, an exiles' organisation said on Thursday citing unnamed sources. The Gu Chu Sum group of former Tibetan political prisoners said the two men and one woman were shot on Wednesday in the capital Lhasa, having been detained after riots broke out in Tibet in March 2008. Fierce anti-China ... read more 
Nairobi (AFP) Oct 22, 2009Pirates captured a Panamanian-flagged ship with 26 crew off the East Africa coast on Thursday and fired rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons at an Italian ship, which escaped. The bulk carrier Al Khaliq was hijacked when pirates boarded and overpowered the mostly Indian crew in waters between Somalia and the Seychelles, the joint European Union-NATO mission to protect shipping in ... more
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Beijing (AFP) Oct 22, 2009The Chinese cargo ship hijacked in the Indian Ocean this week has enough fuel for a month and plenty of food and water to meet the needs of the 25 crew being held hostage, state media said Thursday. China's navy has convened an emergency meeting on the hijacking of the "De Xin Hai" but no orders have been issued to dispatch rescue ships on patrol near the Gulf of Aden to the stricken vessel ... more  
New Delhi (AFP) Oct 23, 2009For more than 100 Indian villages cut off from grid electricity, life no longer comes to an end after dark thanks to an innovative solar-powered lantern that offers hope to the nation's rural poor. While cooking, farming and studying after sunset were once a struggle using inefficient kerosene or paraffin lamps, the solar lantern now provides a cheap and practical source of light. ... more  
New Delhi, India (AFP) Oct 22, 2009Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh argued Thursday that innovations in "green" technology should be shared with developing countries in much the same fashion as HIV/AIDS drugs. Labelling new, clean-energy discoveries "global public goods," Singh said the attached legal copyright regime should balance rewards for the innovators with the need to promote the common good of humanity. ... more |
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New Delhi (AFP) Oct 20, 2009India's environment minister reiterated on Tuesday that New Delhi would not bow to international pressure to accept legally binding carbon emission cuts. Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh said in a statement that a leaked letter from him which appeared in Indian newspapers on Monday "suggested the possibility of some flexibility in India's stance." He said the media reports had only ... more  
Red Wing MN (SPX) Oct 21, 2009The Prairie Island Indian Community has called on President Barack Obama to follow the law and deliver on the federal government's decades-old mandate and promise to establish a permanent repository for the nation's commercial nuclear waste. The Tribe's urging comes after Congress approved the FY2010 Energy and Water Appropriations bill which cuts funding for the proposed national nuclear ... more  
Bangalore, India (PTI) Oct 20, 2009India will soon join a select space club by launching two dedicated satellites in polar orbit to study climate change through atmospheric research and detection of greenhouse gases, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman G. Madhavan Nair said Sunday. "The satellites will be launched in 2010 and 2011. The first will be a 50 kg micro-satellite to conduct atmospheric research. The ... more |
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