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Maoists have massively mined Chhattisgarh forests: Police
A day after 8 CRPF troopers were killed in a landmine blast by Maoists in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district, a top police official said the guerrillas have massively mined the state's forested areas and it was difficult to de-mine the vast stretches.
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Columbian coal continues to head to Asia
Colombian coal is continuing to head to Asia which is keeping availability tight in Europe and underpinning high prices. Colombian coal is flowing to east Asian countries such as China, South Korea and Taiwan, where it is delivered at a discount of as much as USD 15 per tonne to coal loading at Newcastle in Australia and Richards Bay in South Africa.
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Russia values Chinese president's attendance in V-day celebrations, says expert
Chinese President Hu Jintao's attendance at the World War II Victory Day celebrations here would be a significant political step promoting Sino-Russian relations, said a leading Russian expert on Far East studies in a recent interview with Xinhua.
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Azerbaijan ready to supply half of its gas production to pipeline project Nabucco
Energy-rich Azerbaijan is ready to supply half its natural gas extracts to the Western-backed Nabucco pipeline intended to pump gas to Europe, a presidential administration official said on Thursday. Nabucco, whose planned pipeline would bypass Russia, is a rival project to the Kremlin-backed South Stream gas pipeline.
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Romania Snubbed Bulgaria over N-Plant Offer
WITH the disastrous oil spill in the Gulf, talk has once again turned to clean energy. What few people appreciate is that the demand for everything from solar panels to energy-efficient light bulbs is already booming. Worldwide, $162 billion was spent in new clean-tech investments in 2009 alone.
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Time for a nuclear samba
Brazil has advanced a proposal to unblock the Iranian nuclear dossier that is in fact the common view among the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China), the emerging geopolitical counter-power to United States hegemony.
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Arabs see opening for nuke-free Mideast
The world's five recognized nuclear-weapons powers on Wednesday reaffirmed the goal of a Middle East free of nuclear weapons, a long-dormant Arab idea that's come back to life at this month's nonproliferation treaty conference.
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Kyrgyzstan investigating firms that sold fuel supplied to U.S. air base
Kyrgyzstan's interim government has begun a criminal investigation of local companies -- allegedly controlled by the son of ousted president Kurmanbek Bakiyev -- that were sources of fuel supplied to a key U.S. air base in the Central Asian country.
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