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Chinese ship to be freed, Somali pirates sayMogadishu (AFP) Dec 27, 2009 Somali pirates holding a Chinese cargo ship and its crew of 25 said Sunday they would release the vessel after collecting a ransom of 3.5 million dollars (2.2 million euros) later in the day. The bulk carrier Dexinhai, owned by Qingdao Ocean Shipping, was seized on October 18 northeast of the Seychelles as it was sailing to India from South Africa with a cargo of coal. It was subsequentl ... read more |
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Beijing (AFP) Dec 22, 2009French Prime Minister Francois Fillon said Tuesday that any "misunderstandings" between Paris and Beijing were a thing of the past, as he wrapped up an official visit to China. Fillon told students at Beihang University in the Chinese capital that both sides now wanted to move forward on the basis of "mutual respect," after a row last year over Tibet. "It's true that there have been ... more  
West Lafayette IN (SPX) Dec 23, 2009A Purdue University scientist has shown man-made changes to the landscape have affected Indian monsoon rains, suggesting that land-use decisions play an important role in climate change. Monsoon rainfall has decreased over the last 50 years in rural areas where irrigation has been used to increase agriculture in northern India, said Dev Niyogi, an associate professor of agronomy and earth ... more  
Dhaka (AFP) Dec 22, 2009Bangladesh, one of the nations most vulnerable to global warming, will seek 15 percent of a 30-billion-dollar climate change fund committed at the Copenhagen summit, the environment minister said Tuesday. Bangladesh, with a population of 150 million, makes up around 15 percent of the approximately one billion people estimated to be affected by global warming, Environment Minister Hasan ... more |
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New Delhi (AFP) Dec 16, 2009South Asia's largest prison -- Tihar Central Jail in New Delhi -- is hoping to become the first in the world to go green, by using renewable energy, recycled waste and cutting its electricity consumption. The size of a small town, the vast complex in the west of the Indian capital has 10 prison blocks, covers 160 hectares (395 acres) and is massively overcrowded. Close to 11,500 inmates ... more 
Copenhagen (AFP) Dec 19, 2009It will not cool the globe, but the new world climate accord may temper Washington's political heat for Barack Obama and it has crucially given him a deal he can defend at home. The US president engineered the compromise with rising powers China, Brazil, South Africa and India, at the tense UN climate summit in Copenhagen. "For the first time in history all major economies have come toge ... more  
New Delhi (UPI) Dec 16, 2009 India inaugurated Azure Power's 2-megawatt photovoltaic plant in the state of Punjab, the first privately owned, utility-scale power plant on the Asian subcontinent. Built under a 30-year power purchase agreement with the Punjab State Electricity Board, the plant will help power 4,000 rural homes for 20,000 people. Farooq Abdullah, minister of new and renewable energy, said the ... more |
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