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June 29, 2007 |
Russia lays claim to the North Pole - and all its gas, oil, and diamonds
Daily Mail (UK)
Russian President Vladimir Putin is making an astonishing bid to grab a vast chunk of the Arctic - so he can tap its vast potential oil, gas and mineral wealth. |
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June 27, 2007 |
Attack of the mutant rice
CNNMoney
Back in the spring of 2001, a 64-year-old Texas rice farmer named Jacko Garrett watched a fleet of 18-wheelers haul away truckloads of rice that he had grown with great care. "It just bothers me so bad," Garrett said. "I'm sitting here trying to find food to feed people, and I've got to bury five million pounds of rice." No one likes to waste food, but for Garrett, who runs a charity that collects rice for the needy, the pain was especially acute. |
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June 27, 2007 |
UN: Half the World Soon to Be in Cities
Breitbnart.com
Some 3.3 billion people—more than half of humanity—will be living in cities by next year, according to a U.N. report released Wednesday. By 2030, cities will be home to close to 5 billion. |
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June 25, 2007 |
BIS warns of Great Depression dangers from credit spree
Telegraph (UK)
The Bank for International Settlements, the world's most prestigious financial body, has warned that years of loose monetary policy has fuelled a dangerous credit bubble, leaving the global economy more vulnerable to another 1930s-style slump than generally understood. |
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June 25, 2007 |
World Bank approves Zoellick as president
CNNMoney
The World Bank Monday unanimously approved Robert Zoellick as its president after a controversial two-year term by Paul Wolfowitz, who agreed to resign over a promotion scandal involving his companion. |
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June 23, 2007 |
Bush risks losing trade powers after talks collapse
Yahoo! News
US President George W. Bush risks losing his special trade negotiating powers after talks between four key players in the World Trade Organization collapsed this week, analysts said. |
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June 22, 2007 |
Blair fights over national sovereignty
Financial Times
European leaders arrived in Brussels on Thursday afternoon with Tony Blair, UK prime minister, warning that prospects for a deal on a watered down version of the EU constitution were only “touch and go”. |
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June 22, 2007 |
Texas governor vetoes legislation to delay big transportation corridor
Worldnet Daily
The path has been cleared for the state of Texas to begin building the new Trans-Texas Corridor, a project that is designed to be four football fields wide, along Interstate 35 from Mexico to the Oklahoma border, according to a new report from WND columnist Jerome Corsi, the author of "The Late Great USA." |
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June 21, 2007 |
World trade talks collapse in acrimony
Financial Times
The chance of a global trade deal being clinched before President George W. Bush leaves the White House shrank dramatically on Thursday with talks between core negotiating partners collapsing again in division and acrimony. |
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June 16, 2007 |
Secret New Pl;an for EU Superstate
Daily Express (UK)
TONY Blair wants to hand the European Union radical new powers in his last act as Prime Minister, it emerged today. |
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