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Breaking News Wed, 16 May 2012
A man walks past a screen showing falling stocks at the Athens Stock Exchange, in red, in Greece on Monday, Feb. 8, 2010. The Greek exchange remained locked in a bear session Monday, with shares falling around 3.7 percent in afternoon trading, even as European stocks rebounded on hopes Greece won't be allowed to default on its crushing debt load. The center-left government is putting the final touches to draft tax reforms meant to boost ailing state coffers, which saw a 12.7 percent budget shortfall last year.
Economy   Greece   Photos   Stock   Wikipedia: Economy of Greece
 Canberra Times 
Greece fears spark stock sell-off
Mon 14 May 2012
Global stocks slid on worries Greece could leave the eurozone, while oil prices fell after a move by economic powerhouse China to prop up lending sparked fears its economy was weaker than has been... (photo: AP / Petros Giannakouris)
Motorcyclist was filling petrol into the tank of motorcycles in a gasoline station at Batam city, Indonesia.
China   Economy   Market   Photos   Wikipedia: Price of petroleum
 STL Today 
Oil down to near $94 on China, Europe concerns
Mon 14 May 2012
Oil prices dropped to near $94 a barrel Monday due to concerns that China's economy, the world's second-largest, is slowing faster than expected as well as speculation that Greece could abandon the... (photo: WN / Emico Silalahi)
In this Tuesday, April 24, 2012 photo, Sudanese workers inspect burnt out oil pipes at the oil-rich border town of Heglig, Sudan.  CounterPunch  Thu 10 May 2012
Oil Wars on the Horizon
Conflict and intrigue over valuable energy supplies have been features of the international landscape for a long time. Major wars over oil have been fought every decade or so since World War I, and... (photo: AP / Abd Raouf)
Oil   Photos   Politics   War   Wikipedia: Petroleum politics
Whatever happened to carbon capture in the fight against climate change?  The Guardian  Wed 9 May 2012
Whatever happened to carbon capture in the fight against climate change?
CCS has been hobbled by the economic crisis, and Europe is far behind the US – but a new Norwegian plant provides hope Norway's prime minister Jens Stoltenberg during the opening ceremony of the CCS... (photo: EC / EC)
Carbon   Climate   Europe   Photos   Whatever   Wikipedia: Climate
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 Hiroshima aftermath. During World War II, the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, were destroyed by atomic bombs dropped by the United States military on August 6 and August 9, 1945, respectively, killing at least 120,000 people outright, and around The Examiner Mon 7 May 2012
Navy Commander Joseph Rochefort cracked the code to defeat Admiral Yamamoto
Those familiar with naval history during World War II easily recognize the name Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, commander of the Japanese Imperial Fleet. In May 1942, following... (photo: USAF file)
Japan   Photos   United States   Wikipedia: Operation Vengeance   World War II
CRISPIAN OLVER: Africa at cutting edge in carbon markets Business Day Mon 7 May 2012
CRISPIAN OLVER: Africa at cutting edge in carbon markets
THE Africa Carbon Forum is the largest annual gathering of carbon-market players in Africa and was held last month in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. A record number of... (photo: EC / EC)
Addis   Africa   EU   Markets   Photos   Wikipedia: Carbon
Tomari Nuclear Power Plant (Tomari, Hokkaidō, Japan). The Columbus Dispatch Sun 6 May 2012
Japan’s last nuclear reactor is turned off to cheers, worry
Kim Kyung-Hoon | REUTERS... (photo: Creative Commons / Mugu-shisai)
Energy   Japan   Nuclear   Photos   Wikipedia: Japanese nuclear disaster
China and the two Sudans Al Jazeera Sun 6 May 2012
China and the two Sudans
On this week's show we take a look at China in Africa and ask if there can be profit without the politics. The short story is one of a country big on investment but... (photo: UN / Paulo Filgueiras)
Africa   China   Photos   Politics   Sudan   Wikipedia: Sudan
Participants raise banners with a slogan, "Good bye, nuclear power station", at a rally protesting against the usage of nuclear energy in Tokyo Saturday, May 5, 2012. Thousands of Japanese marched to celebrate the last of this nation's 50 nuclear reactors switching off Saturday, shaking banners shaped as giant fish that have become a potent anti-nuclear symbol. San Francisco Chronicle Sun 6 May 2012
Japanese cheer as nuclear reactor shut for checkup
Tokyo -- Thousands of Japanese celebrated the switching off of the last of their nation's 50 nuclear reactors Saturday, waving banners shaped like giant fish that have... (photo: AP / Itsuo Inouye)
Energy   Japan   Nuclear   Photos   Wikipedia: Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster
SHALE GAS HYDRAULIC FRACKING: Poisoned Water. Inducing Earthquakes GlobalResearch Fri 4 May 2012
SHALE GAS HYDRAULIC FRACKING: Poisoned Water. Inducing Earthquakes
--The new technologies to explode gas out of shale rock have serious consequences There is a global rush to embrace a new technique to extract hydrocarbons from the... (photo: European Community / EC)
China   EU   Earth   Photos   Water   Wikipedia: Earth


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