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...
Russia, Azerbaijan expected to agree new gas deal Syracuse | (AP) - MOSCOW - Russia's president was expected to clinch a major new natural gas deal with Azerbaijan on Monday, dealing another blow to Western efforts to find alternates to Russia for energy supplies. | Dmitry Medvedev was to travel to the Azerbaijani capital Baku, along with the chief of Russi...
Malalai Joya: the woman MP who dares to defy Afghanistan's warlord rulers The Times | My father always said he could spot me in any crowd of women wearing burqas because I walk like a penguin. You have no peripheral vision because of the netting in front of your eyes - and it's hot and suffocating under there. | The most useful thin...
Russia, Azerbaijan expected to agree new gas deal Syracuse | (AP) - MOSCOW - Russia's president was expected to clinch a major new natural gas deal with Azerbaijan on Monday, dealing another blow to Western efforts to find alternates to Russia for energy supplies. | Dmitry Medvedev was to travel to the Azerb...
Russia's Medvedev expected to clinch major new gas deal with Azerbaijan Newsday | MOSCOW (AP) — Russia's president was expected to clinch a major new natural gas deal with Azerbaijan on Monday, dealing another blow to Western efforts to find alternates to Russia for energy supplies. | was to travel to the Azerbaijani capit...
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Ex-US envoy says he's not looking for Afghan post Denver Post | UNITED NATIONS—A former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and Afghanistan says he is not looking for a post in the Afghan government. | Zalmay Khalilzad said Tuesday ni...
Medvedev to host Stanishev in energy talks Syracuse | (AP) - MOSCOW (AP) ? Russian President Dmitry Medvedev was to discuss Bulgaria's role in the Kremlin-lobbied South Stream gas project with Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev late Tu...
'Rat crap' served at city eateries: health board Canada Dot Com | 'Frustrating'; Call for extra measures to deal with offenders | Some Toronto restaurants have knowingly served "rat crap" to diners, and public health officials need beefed-up po...
Dragon Oil contracts Astra for drilling in Caspian Energy Current 6/18/2009 | ASHGABAT, TURKMENISTAN: Dragon Oil plc has signed a contract with BKE Shelf Limited to hire Eurasia Drilling jackup Astra for a period of six months, commencing in November. BKE Shelf Ltd. is the offshore drilling division of Eurasia Dril...
ConocoPhillips inks deal to explore offshore Kazakhstan block Business Journal Kingpin investors raise energy stakes ConocoPhillips exec to be LyondellBasell CEO Linn Energy promotes Mark Ellis to CEO | ConocoPhillips has signed an agreement with JSC National Co. KazMunayGas and Mubadala Development Co. PJSC to jointly explore ...
Added troops pour into Afghanistan The News & Observer | CAMP LEATHERNECK, Afghanistan -- Teams of builders worked through dust storms Monday to expand a base for a brigade of U.S. Marines now fanning out across southern Afghanistan to change the course of a war claiming American lives faster than ever b...
Afghan bomb kills British troops The Australian | A ROADSIDE bomb in southern Afghanistan killed two British soldiers, while gunmen in the east abducted 16 mine-clearing personnel working for the UN, officials said yesterday. | The blast that killed the troops came as thousands of US marines poured into the Taliban's southern heartland, in the biggest US military offensive operation in Afghanist...
The soldiers give all, while the politicians starve them of cash The Guardian | When you're left wounded on Afghanistan's plains | And the women come out to cut up what remains | Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains | And go to your Gawd like a soldier | There's no heroism to be found in "The Young British Soldier", Kipling's poem written after the Afghan war of the 1880s: simply acknowledgement of the country's ...
