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Sable Mining Africa Says Initial Drill Results Confirm High Prospectivity of Nimba Project Sable Mining Africa Says Initial Drill Results Confirm High Prospectivity of Nimba Project Tue 8 May 2012
Sable Mining Africa Limited Sable Mining Africa Limited, the AIM listed resource company, is pleased to announce that initial results from the Company's reconnaissance... (photo: UN / Eskinder Debebe) Mineweb
Africa   Guinea   Mining   Photos   UN   Wikipedia: Guinea-Bissau
Arabian sea - Wave power Wave power plants around the world Tue 8 May 2012
Renewable energy from waves works best in parts of the world with steady access to powerful wind and wave resources. Countries with the most useful waves include Scotland... (photo: WN / Aruna Mirasdar) The Examiner
Canada   Energy   Photos   Power   Wikipedia: Wave power
Climate ship plots course through the battering waves Climate ship plots course through the battering waves Sun 6 May 2012
The European Union hosts this week what could be one of the most significant meetings of the year on climate change. Last December's UN climate summit, in the South... (photo: EC / EC) BBC News
African   Climate   EU   Energy   Photos   Wikipedia: Climate
A history of the world, BRIC by BRIC A history of the world, BRIC by BRIC Sat 5 May 2012
Goldman Sachs - via economist Jim O'Neill in 2001 - invented the concept of a rising new bloc: BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and, later, South Africa). Some... (photo: UN / Devra Berkowitz) Al Jazeera
Brazil   Economist   History   Photos   Wikipedia: BRICS   World
Is Obama wary of Brazil and Dilma Rousseff? Is Obama wary of Brazil and Dilma Rousseff? Sat 5 May 2012
Are there hidden tensions which stand to undermine the important diplomatic relationship between Washington and rising star Brazil? During a recent meeting at the... (photo: ABr / Abr) Al Jazeera
Brazil   Diplomatic   Photos   Relationship   Washington   Wikipedia: Dilma Rousseff
people wait to fill containers with fuel at a petrol station OIL IS A STRATEGIC PRODUCT, NOT A COMMODITY: Argentina and the International Oil Picture Fri 4 May 2012
Oil is not a commodity, oil is not a raw product either. Just look at the complexity of the techniques for its efficient extraction. Oil is a strategic product that... (photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb) GlobalResearch
Argentina   Commodity   Oil   Photos   Wikipedia: Oil
UN says threats to global security increasing UN says threats to global security increasing Thu 26 Apr 2012
Tweet UNITED NATIONS: Threats to international peace and security from illicit cross-border trafficking in drugs, weapons, terrorists and people have increased as the... (photo: UN / Paulo Filgueiras) The Times of India
Drugs   Peace   Photos   Security   Weapons
US military planes , are seen at Manas US military base in Bishkek airport Kyrgyzstan on Thursday, Feb. 12, 2009. Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev last week announced the closure of the base, which is a crucial staging post for coalition operations in Afghanistan. The U.S. began using the Manas base in December 200 Map: US bases encircle Iran Tue 1 May 2012
US military bases continue to form a strategic envelope around Iran, although the American withdrawal from Iraq at the end of 2011 may have changed the regional balance... (photo: AP / Igor Kovalenko) Al Jazeera
Iran   Iraq   Military   Photos   Wikipedia: Iran–United States relations after 1979
he Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) arrives at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam to participate Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2010 exercises. Without question: US military expansion in the Asia-Pacific Wed 25 Apr 2012
As Noam Chomsky wrote in this two-part essay, America's "pivot" toward the Asia-Pacific region is in response to what it calls "classic security dilemmas" posed by the... (photo: US Navy / Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Shawn D. Torgerson) Al Jazeera
Asia Pacific   Defence   Photos   US   Wikipedia: RIMPAC
FBI Director Robert Mueller testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012, before the House Intelligence Committee hearing on worldwide threats. Yemen army recaptures center of al-Qaida-held city Wed 25 Apr 2012
FBI director Robert Mueller and Yemen's new president pledged to step up the fight against al-Qaida Tuesday only hours after government forces fought their way to the... (photo: AP / Cliff Owen) STL Today
Al Qaeda   Photos   Terrorism   War   Wikipedia: Robert Mueller
EU woos India for piracy battle - Bloc pursues political project SUJAN DUTTA Northwood Headquarters, ... EU woos India for piracy battle - Bloc pursues political project SUJAN DUTTA Northwood Headquarters, ... Mon 23 Apr 2012
EU woos India for piracy battle - Bloc pursues political project SUJAN DUTTA... (photo: European Community / EC) The Telegraph India
EU   India   Military   Photos   Piracy   Wikipedia: Eurozone
Muizenberg with Zandvlei, center is a beach-side suburb of Cape Town, South Africa. It is situated where the shore of the Cape Peninsula curves round to the east on the False Bay coast. Cape Town's Stunning Beauty And Deep History Sun 22 Apr 2012
One of the most beautiful places I had the opportunity visit on my around the world adventure was Cape Town, South Africa. At the most southern tip of the African... (photo: Creative Commons / Hilton) Huffington Post
Africa   Environment   Photos   Tourism   Wikipedia: Cape Town
President Barack Obama, center, tours the San Pedro Claver church with the Roman Catholic Rev. Alvaro Gutierrez, left, and Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos in Cartagena, Colombia, Sunday, April 15, 2012. A Latin American Summit Like No Others? Tue 17 Apr 2012
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling At the Organization of American States' (OAS) Summit, one concept that was sure to be absent from the lips of U.S.... (photo: AP / Carolyn Kaster) WorldNews.com
Democracy   Photos   S America   US   Wikipedia: 6th Summit of the Americas
A Somali inmate detained in an anti-piracy operation conducted by Seychelles Coast Guard, pauses as he works at the incarceration block in Montagne Posee near Victoria, Seychelles, Friday, March 2, 2012. Analyst says Somali pirates have new weapons from Libya Thu 12 Apr 2012
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - Somali pirates have acquired sophisticated weaponry, including mines and shoulder-held missile launchers from Libya, and are likely to use them in... (photo: AP / Gregorio Borgia) Daily Press
Libya   Photos   Pirates   Terrorism   Wikipedia: Piracy in Somalia
Jonasa Rokotuiwasa, right, with daughter Miliana Wati, center, and son Jonasa cross the flooded bridge in Kasavu, Nausori in Fiji, Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2009 after a cyclone hit the island. Thousands of Fiji villagers fled to shelters as a tropical cyclone battered the South Pacific nation, causing flooding, damaging homes and power lines, and killing three people, officials said Tuesday. Flood-ravaged Fiji braces for cyclone Mon 2 Apr 2012
Authorities in Fiji have warned of a cyclone bearing down on the country that is already struggling with devastating floods. Cyclone Daphne is expected to compound the... (photo: AP / Sophie Ralulu, Fiji Sun) Al Jazeera
Cyclone   Fiji   Flood   Photos   Wikipedia: Fiji
Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi waves at her supporters from her car as she leaves after a brief visit to the headquarters of her National League for Democracy Party Monday, April 2, 2012, in Yangon, Myanmar. Suu Kyi hails Myanmar polls as 'new era' Mon 2 Apr 2012
Pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi has hailed the recent round of Myanmar by-elections, overwhelmingly won by her party, as the harbinger of a "new era". Her... (photo: AP) Al Jazeera
Democracy   Elections   Myanmar   Photos   Wikipedia: Aung San Suu Kyi
Wind turbines - renewable wind energy - wind mill - wind farm Renewables future left blowing in the wind Mon 2 Apr 2012
Ambitious plans to capitalise on renewable opportunities in Ireland appear to have stalled and it remains to be seen if the Government can get things back on track,... (photo: WN / Aruna Mirasdar) Irish Times
Energy   Ireland   Photos   Wikipedia: Wind energy   Wind
File - Somali migrants in a disabled skiff wait for assistance from Sailors aboard the guided-missile cruiser USS Lake Champlain, May 24, 2009, Gulf of Aden. Europe's dark day: NATO blamed for refugee deaths Thu 29 Mar 2012
LONDON: A catalogue of failures by NATO warships and European coastguards led to the deaths of dozens of refugees left adrift at sea, according to an official report into... (photo: US Navy / Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Daniel Barker) Canberra Times
Europe   Nato   Photos   Refugee   Wikipedia: Refugees of the Libyan civil war
Maersk sealand container on truck Maersk Plans New Rate Increases Thu 29 Mar 2012
Ocean carrier's rate hikes are slated to take effect April 15 and May 1 Maersk Line plans to implement a series of general rate increases on various trade lanes, as... (photo: Creative Commons / Southgeist) Journal of Commerce
Business   Industry   Market   Photos   Wikipedia: Maersk Line Limited
African minister visits Ft. Moultrie slave exhibit African minister visits Ft. Moultrie slave exhibit Thu 29 Mar 2012
SULLIVAN’S ISLAND - The minister of culture and heritage for the West African nation of Guinea has written books about slavery. He still choked back tears Wednesday... (photo: UN / UN) The State
African   Culture   Island   Photos   Slave   Wikipedia: Slavery