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Daily Mail
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Russian leader Vladimir Putin has made an astonishing bid to grab a vast chunk of the Arctic, giving himself claim to its vast potential oil, gas and mineral wealth.
His audacious argument that an underwater Russian ridge is linked to the North Pole is..
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USA Today
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Protesters with black hoods and bandanas covering their faces showered police with rocks and beer bottles Saturday, before the heavily armored officers drove them back with water cannon and tear gas during a rally against an upcoming Group of Eight summit..
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CNN
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The world should aim to cut greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2050 as part of a new global warming pact to succeed the Kyoto Protocol, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Thursday.
Abe, who plans to present his idea at the Group of Eight summit i..
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BBC News
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Russia, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan have agreed to build a new natural gas pipeline north from the Caspian Sea.
Russia's President Vladimir Putin announced the deal at a summit with Central Asian leaders in Turkmenistan.
The agreement ensures Russia..
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BBC News
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A blast has destroyed a section of one of the main gas pipelines in Ukraine exporting Russian gas to Europe, Ukraine's emergencies ministry says.
It says about 30m (98ft) of the Urenhoi-Pomary-Uzhhorod pipeline was damaged by the explosion.
Russia's..
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USA Today
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Delegates approved the world's first roadmap for stemming mounting greenhouse gas emissions Friday, laying out an arsenal of anti-warming measures that must be rushed into place to avert a disastrous spike in global temperatures.
The report, a summary..
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Yahoo News
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Canada's westernmost province announced a radical plan to slash greenhouse gas emissions by one third over 13 years as part of its contribution to curb global warming. British Columbia also vowed to create the world's longest hydrogen highway, from the..
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Yahoo News
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Residents of Belarus' capital stocked up on warm clothes and electric heaters as fears rose Tuesday that Russia is about to cut off the natural gas on which the country depends...
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MSNBC
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At the Qalandia military checkpoint next to Jerusalem, a few dozen Palestinians threw stones at Israeli police. Police said they responded with riot control tactics, and the force was seen firing tear gas at the crowd.
After Israel, Bush will go to Sau..
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BBC News
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Ukraine has said it may restrict Russian gas supplies to Europe if gas monopoly Gazprom goes ahead with further cuts in Ukrainean supply.
State-owned Gazprom says it will cut supplies of gas to Ukraine by a further 25% on Tuesday, but had said shipment..
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BBC News
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A gas explosion in the southern French city of Lyon has injured at least 17 people and there may have been fatalities, police say.
The blast happened at a busy shopping street in the city centre during road maintenance, police were quoted as saying by..
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BBC News
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Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko is in Moscow to try to persuade Russia not to cut gas supplies to his country in a dispute over an unpaid bill.
He has just five hours with President Vladimir Putin to settle the row over a demand by Russian gas mo..
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BBC News
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Bulgaria has agreed to a gas pipeline deal with Russia that is expected to strengthen Moscow's grip over energy supplies to Europe.
The Bulgarian cabinet has agreed to allow the planned South Stream pipeline to pass through the country on its way from..
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BBC News
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Russia's Gazprom has postponed the deadline for Belarus to pay its gas bill after a first instalment was paid.
It had threatened to halve supplies to the former Soviet republic if the debt was not paid by Friday, but has now given Belarus until 10 Augu..
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Guardian Unlimited
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It's an easy target, but it's time to stop mocking the States. They could sure teach the Brits a thing or two.
Once again, this time for a report commissioned by the broadcaster itself, the ostensibly neutral BBC stands accused of a sneaky preference f..
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SF Gate
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Chancellor Angela Merkel said Thursday that the Group of Eight has agreed on a plan calling for "substantial cuts" in the greenhouse gas emissions blamed for global warming.
The goal is to agree to cut greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2050, Merkel s..
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BBC News
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The growth in greenhouse gas emissions can be curbed at reasonable cost, experts at a major UN climate change conference in Bangkok have agreed.
Boosting renewable energy, reducing deforestation and improving energy efficiency can all help, they said...
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CNN
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International delegates reached an agreement early Friday on the best ways to combat climate change despite efforts by China to water down language on cutting destructive greenhouse gas emissions.
The closed-door debate over everything from nuclear pow..
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Al Jazeera
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Oil shipments from the energy-rich state to the world's second largest economy account for nine per cent of Japan's needs, with 12 per cent of its natural gas imports coming from Qatar.
On Monday, Abe met Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah, the Kuwaiti emi..
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USA Today
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Norway wants to cut its net greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2050 in the world's toughest national plan for fighting global warming, Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg said on Thursday.
He said that Norway, the world's number five oil exporter, wanted..
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