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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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Rathgama, Sri Lanka (AFP) Dec 23, 2009Billions of dollars were pledged after the 2004 Asian tsunami to help people like Pradeepa Niroshani who waited in vain for money to rebuild her destroyed home. Five years after the disaster, the government in Sri Lanka is under pressure from a leading anti-corruption group to account for nearly half of the 2.2 billion dollars pledged to the country by official foreign donors. Niroshani, ... more  
New Delhi (AFP) Dec 23, 2009India's reliance on coal means the country is heading for an energy crisis unless it diversifies its sources of power, the chairman of the UN's top climate change panel predicted on Wednesday. Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the Nobel-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), said India had to curb its high-polluting coal consumption in the near future or risk burning through ... more  
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 |
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Beijing (AFP) Dec 21, 2009France and China on Monday hailed their reinvigorated ties, putting a spat over Tibet behind them and sealing a series of economic deals during a visit by French Prime Minister Francois Fillon. Fillon's high-profile visit came on the heels of the marathon climate change talks in Copenhagen, at which China came in for sharp criticism -- notably from the Europeans -- for rejecting any move to ... more  
New Delhi (AFP) Dec 18, 2009The Indian army said Friday it had pulled 30,000 troops out of Kashmir, one of the biggest military drawdowns in a decade and reflecting a sharp fall in violence in the disputed region. "We have moved out two divisions of infantry formations who were on internal security duties... and approximately the number of soldiers pulled out is 30,000 men," spokesman Colonel Om Singh said in New Delhi ... more  
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 |
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