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Breaking news Wed, 10 Mar 2010
A man speaks on his cell phone in front of a giant globe in the main venue hall of the UN Climate Summit in Copenhagen, Tuesday Dec. 15, 2009.
Climate Change   Deforestation   Environment   Photos   UN  
INTERVIEW - New climate partnership planned to protect forests
| OSLO (Reuters) - Governments will seek a new climate partnership in 2010 to protect tropical forests with funds going through the United Nations, the World Bank or bilateral channels, Norway said on... (photo: AP / Virginia Mayo) The Star
Baltic Sea
Baltic   Company   Photos   Shipwrecks   Unveils  
Baltic Sea pipeline work unveils a dozen centuries-old shipwrecks, 1 maybe up to 800 years old
STOCKHOLM (AP) — A dozen centuries-old shipwrecks — some of them unusually well-preserved — have been found in the Baltic Sea by a gas company building an underwater pipeline between... (photo: GFDL / Andreas Tille) KDVR
Entrance to Chevron's headquarters complex in San Ramon, California. Chevron was found to have evaded $3.25 billion in federal and state taxes from 1970 to 2000 through a complex petroleum pricing scheme involving a project in Indonesia. Chevron to seek UK refinery sale, cut 2,000 jobs
* Chevron to cut 2,000 downstream jobs in 2010 * To seek bids for UK refinery, other downstream ops * Shares down 0.2 percent in early trading (Adds quote, detail, background, byline, updates share pr... (photo: Creative Commons / Coolcaesar) The Guardian
Chevron   Jobs   Photos   Refinery   Trading  
In this Dec. 3, 2009 file photo, a worker throws his cigarette while smoke on a truck parked in front of a cooling towers of a coal-fired power plant in Datong, Shanxi province, China. Global climate battle plays out in World Bank
| WASHINGTON—The United States and Britain are threatening to withhold support for a $3.75 billion World Bank loan for a coal-fired plant in South Africa, expanding the battleground in the global de... (photo: AP / Andy Wong, File) Malaya
Climate Change   Energy   Finance   Photos   World Bank  
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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. left, shakes hands with Ukrainian counterpart Viktor Yanukovich, right, at the Kremlin in Moscow, March 5, 2010. New Ukraine leader soothes Russia, no gas deals
| MOSCOW (Reuters) - Ukraine's new president Viktor Yanukovich soothed Moscow on Friday by suggesting he would reverse key policies of his pro-Western predecessor, but wo... (photo: AP / Natalia Kolosnikova, pool) The Star
Energy   Photos   Politics   Russia   Ukraine  
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, right, listens to his Ukrainian counterpart Viktor Yanukovich at the Kremlin in Moscow on March 5, 2010. Ukraine's Leader, in Russia, Promises Better Ties
| MOSCOW — Ukraine’s newly elected president, Viktor F. Yanukovich, arrived in Moscow on Friday promising a “sharp turn” in his country’s re... (photo: AP / RIA Novosti, Vladimir Rodionov, Presidential Press Service) The New York Times
Energy   Photos   Politics   Russia   Ukraine  
The Amorella, a passenger ferry with 753 passengers and 190 crew members aboard, returns to port in Stockholm, Friday March 5, 2010, after being driven out from the ice after been stuck in the Baltic Sea. Passenger ferry freed from Baltic Sea ice
| STOCKHOLM-A passenger ferry with nearly 1,000 people on board returned safely to the Stockholm harbor early Friday after having broken free from heavy pack ice that had... (photo: AP / Johan Engman) The Boston Globe
Baltic Sea   Europe   Photos   Transport   Weather  
In this photo made from TV a ship is seen trapped in ice in the Baltic Sea on Thursday, March 4, 2010. 1,000 trapped on ferry stuck in Baltic Sea ice
| STOCKHOLM (AP) - Dozens of ships including a passenger ferry with nearly 1,000 people on board were trapped Friday in heavy pack ice in the Baltic Sea off Sweden's east... (photo: AP / SVT via APTN) The Star
Baltic Sea   Emergency   Photos   Shipping   Travel  
In this photo made from TV ships are seen trapped in ice in the Baltic Sea on Thursday, March 4, 2010. Thousands of passengers marooned in Baltic ice
| Ice-breakers are powering their way towards about 50 vessels, including several passenger ferries, stuck solid in the iced-over Baltic Sea between Sweden and Finland. |... (photo: AP / SVT via APTN) The Times
Baltic Sea   Emergency   Photos   Travel   Weather  
A female supporter of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad cheers as she holds a banner showing him, at his final election campaign rally, on Azadi street in western Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, June 10, 2009. New Iran Sanctions Draft Circulated
| UNITED NATIONS — The United States is circulating a draft resolution of new, tougher sanctions against Iran that concentrate on the banking, shipping and insuranc... (photo: AP / Ben Curtis) The New York Times
Iran   Photos   Sanctions   UN   US  
Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko speaks at the parliament in Kiev, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 3, 2010. Ukraine PM voted out of office
| Ukraine's parliament has dismissed the government of Yulia Tymoshenko, the country's prime minister, handing her arch rival Viktor Yanukovych, the newly-elected preside... (photo: AP / Sergei Chuzavkov) Al Jazeera
Elections   Photos   Politics   President   Ukraine  
Exploration Maritime Industry
Royal Navy may lift ban on females serving on submarines
'Gribble' marine pest may be key to biofuel breakthr
Scrapping of City of Adelaide clipper ship delayed
Port Mann Bridge construction detours begin
In this image issued by EU NAVFOR on Friday March 5, 2010 shows a boarding party from the EU NAVFOR French warship FS Nivose on Somali pirate skiffs off the Somali coast on Friday March 5, 2010.
Thai ship free after ransom - Somali pirates
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The Falklands are expecting a new invasion, but not from Arg
Argentina goes to UN as Falklands row escalates
Danish troops 'storm ship captured by Somali pirates'
Japan's whalers are at sea again, harvesting meat that f
File - Jorge E. Taiana (centre), Foreign Minister of Argentina, addresses the ministerial-level Security Council meeting to discuss the situation in the Middle East.
Argentina goes to UN as Falklands row escalates
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Gas Energy
Turkey's EUAS to sign nuclear deal Korea's Kepco
Obama pushes climate change in meeting
Greece, Qatar discuss $4b natural gas project
China, India give qualified nod to climate deal
President Barack Obama speaks as Archbishop Demetrios, Primate of the Greek Orthodox Church in America, listens during a ceremony honoring Greek Independence Day in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, March 9, 2010.
Obama pushes climate change in meeting
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EU faces court challenge over biofuels reports
China and India endorse Copenhagen climate deal
China and India Join Climate Accord
INTERVIEW - New climate partnership planned to protect fores
A cane cutter works in Batatais, Brazil, in this Aug. 28, 2007 file photo. Booming Brazil is in overdrive with test drilling at a potentially mammoth offshore oil field, trucks jamming ports to offload soy shipments for China, biofuel production galore and plenty of cash for mega-infrastructure projects ranging from bridges to dams
EU faces court challenge over biofuels reports
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Oil Prices Shipping
Euro Hurt by European Woes; China Data Boosts Oil
GLOBAL MARKETS-Euro hurt by European woes; China data boosts
Chevron to seek UK refinery sale, cut 2,000 jobs
Oil drops below US$81 early afternoon in Europe
Entrance to Chevron's headquarters complex in San Ramon, California. Chevron was found to have evaded $3.25 billion in federal and state taxes from 1970 to 2000 through a complex petroleum pricing scheme involving a project in Indonesia.
Chevron to seek UK refinery sale, cut 2,000 jobs
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Norovirus outbreak on Mediterranean cruise ship
Swansea-Cork ferry set to launch after repeated delays
Shipwrecks found during pipeline work in Baltic Sea
Shipwrecks found during pipeline work
Baltic Sea
Baltic Sea pipeline work unveils a dozen centuries-old shipwrecks, 1 maybe up to 800 years old
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