Kazakhstan resolves issues with ONGC Videsh The Times Of India | Text: ASTANA: Kazakhstan has resolved its issues with steel magnate Lakshmi N Mittal and with India's largest oil explorer ONGC Videsh and the "situation is coming to a successful end", a top diplomat has said, adding that the country supported...
Hundreds of British troops seize Helmand canals in U.S.-led 'Strike of the Sword' The Daily Mail | Hundreds of British troops have key seized canal crossings in a Taliban stronghold in southern Afghanistan, in one of the largest operations that overstretched forces have made there. | The soldiers have seized 13 canal crossings since Operation Panchai Palang, or Panther's Claw, began 10 days ago...
AP Top News at 6:40 a.m. EDT Syracuse | (AP) - WASILLA, Alaska - Even for a nonconformist, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has defied political logic with her sudden, stunning announcement to leave office more than a year early. Supporters and critics alike say the former GOP vice presidential c...
I Must Go Home to Iran Again The New York Times | PARIS - Six years ago, I went to listen to a man, whom I will not name, in a café in Paris. | He said it had been 24 years since he had been back to Iran, that he had had to leave right after the revolution of 1979 for political reasons. | He talke...
Chinese Consider Bid for Repsol Assets Wall Street Journal By DAVID WINNING and CHRISTOPHER BJORK | China National Petroleum Corp. is considering a bid for some of the Argentine assets of Spanish oil company Repsol YPF SA alongside other potential deals in South America, according to a person familiar with t...
British forces join Afghan operation Arab News | Peter Graff | Reuters | SORKHDOZ, Afghanistan: Hundreds of British troops have seized key canal crossings in a Taleban stronghold in southern Afghanistan, military officials said Friday, part of a new US-led operation to wrest the initiative from i...
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South Korea in a new Asia initiative World Security Network South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, left, shakes hands with Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso at their joint press conference at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo, ...
APSU professor helps to rebuild Afghanistan honey bee industry Nashville Tennessean | Apples and honey bees have a definite connection says an Austin Peay State University professor. | And that connection has been broken in Afghanistan said Sgt. Robert Moore, adju...
Gazprom Puts a Positive Spin on First-Half Results The New York Times | MOSCOW - Gazprom has endured a dismal first half of the year, but the long-term outlook for the company remains bright, Aleksei B. Miller, the company's chief executive, told a m...
China boosts gas imports from Turkmenistan Asia Times | By Vladimir Socor | Russia's stoppage since April 9 of gas imports from Turkmenistan, ostensibly due to a pipeline accident, can only strengthen Turkmenistan's motivation to start exports to China on schedule in early 2010. With Russia demonstratin...
Country profile: Afghanistan BBC News | Landlocked and mountainous, Afghanistan has suffered from such chronic instability and conflict during its modern history that its economy and infrastructure are in ruins, and many of its people are refugees. | Since the fall of the Taliban adminis...
Photographic tales of the Silk Road Sydney Morning Herald | IN THE turbulent opening years of the 20th century a talented Russian photographer, Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii, persuaded Tsar Nicholas II to commission a magnificent record of the diverse cultures of his vast empire. | Travelling on a railcar provide...
From iron curtain to green belt The Guardian | When Germany was divided during the cold war, nature took control of the deserted border area. Today it forms a reserve as fascinating as the country's recent history | All along the watchtower ... once a heavily fortified border the former East/West divide is now a wildlife haven | When I told friends I was setting off to explore the former bord...
Gov't not keen on taking over Sulpicio Malaya | JUSTICE Secretary Raul Gonzalez yesterday said the government is not keen on taking over the operations of Sulpicio Lines which owns the capsized MV Princess of the Stars. | He said the government lacks expertise in running a shipping company and might be blamed if the company incurs financial losses. | Besides, he said, the government might also...
