Cracks in India's nuclear law Asia Times | Sep 2, 2010 Cracks in India's nuclear law | By Indrajit Basu | KOLKATA - Pleasing neither supporters nor its critics, India this week passed a Nuclear Liability Bill, opening up the country’s US$150 billion nuclear power market to global equipment suppliers. The first to b...
Taliban footprint 'spreading' across Afghanistan, claims Petraeus Daily Star Lebanon | Intensified fighting is ‘reflection of militants’ desperation’ | By Agence France Presse (AFP) | Wednesday, September 01, 2010 | - Powered by | --> | Lynne O’Donnell | Agence France Presse | KABUL: The US commander of the Afghan war acknowledged Tuesday that the Tali...
Analysis: Special-ops on show to woo war skeptics Herald Tribune | KABUL, Afghanistan - The new top commander in Afghanistan is talking up a weapon that has been kept in the shadows for years - special operations missions to kill or capture key insurgents - to try to convince skeptics the war can be won. AC = 1234...
Analysis: Special-ops on show to woo war skeptics The Press Democrat | More than previous commanders, Gen. David Petraeus has been releasing the results of special operations missions - 365 militant leaders killed or captured in the last 90 days, another 1,031 rank-and-file insurgents killed and 1,335 detained - to de...
Russia buys Azeri gas to keep EU market -analysts The Guardian *Gazprom signs deal for 2 bcm of gas in 2011, more from 2012 *Says will buy more Azeri gas if offered *European Union is also vying for large Azeri gas contracts *No economic benefit to Gazprom from Azeri gas -analysts By Jessica Bachman and Denis Dy...
A Look at Economic Developments Around the Globe ABC News The Associated Press | By The Associated Press | September 3, 2010 (AP) | A look at economic developments and activity in major stock markets around the world Friday: | ——— | CERNOBBIO, Italy — Is the global economy out of the woo...
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It's time to reveal Afghan truth Gulf News | Fifty years ago this summer, with Americans riveted by a presidential contest pitting John F. Kennedy against Richard M. Nixon, Dwight D. Eisenhower contemplated his departure fr...
Karzai issues security deadline Al Jazeera | Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan's president, has issued a decree that gives private security firms a maximum of four months to disband. | The decree, issued by the presidenti...
Obama and a Legacy of Avoiding Disasters? WorldNews.com Article by WorldNews.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. | In "Black Hearts: One Platoon's Descent Into Madness In Iraq's Triangle of Death," Jim Frederick writes, "Human organizatio...
Gazprom to double gas imports from Azerbaijan Philadelphia Daily News | The Associated Press | MOSCOW - Russia's Gazprom on Friday clinched a deal to double supplies from Azerbaijan in a bid to expand its control over gas produced by former Soviet republics. | Gazprom and the State Oil and Gas Company of Azerbaijan sig...
Gazprom to double gas imports from Azerbaijan Wtop | MOSCOW (AP) - Russia's Gazprom on Friday clinched a deal to double supplies from Azerbaijan in a bid to expand its control over gas produced by former Soviet republics. | Gazprom and the State Oil and Gas Company of Azerbaijan signed an agreement t...
Gazprom to double gas imports from Azerbaijan The State | MOSCOW - Russia's Gazprom on Friday clinched a deal to double supplies from Azerbaijan in a bid to expand its control over gas produced by former Soviet republics. | Gazprom and the State Oil and Gas Company of Azerbaijan signed an agreement to boo...
Swing-vote MP hints at possible Labor deal Gulf News | Canberra: One of three independent MPs needed by Australia's Prime Minister Julia Gillard to form a minority government hinted yesterday he could negotiate on Labor's mining profits tax he has previously opposed. | Maverick outback MP Bob Katter gave Gillard and conservative Opposition Leader Tony Abbott a "wish list" of 20 priori...
BP spill costs hit $ 8bn as crews unearth clues The Times Of India WASHINGTON: British oil giant BP has spent $ 8 billion to battle the Gulf of Mexico disaster, the company has revealed as its crews retrieved key evidence from the seabed. | Robotic submarines recorded the delicate operation as engineers raised a failed blowout preventer from the ruptured well and began lifting it to the surface in order to hand it...
