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Forty-five nuclear supplier states have approved a controversial US proposal to drop a ban on nuclear trade with India.
06/09/2008
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George Bush, the US president, has praised the official emergency response in Louisiana to Hurricane Gustav as "excellent'' but said that there is more work to be done.
04/09/2008
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Thousand of people have been forced to evacuate as artillery shells and other ammunition exploded after a forest blaze swept into a munitions storage site in Ukraine.
29/08/2008
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An explosion has ripped through a fuel train outside the Georgian town of Gori severing a vital trade route between the east of the country and Black Sea ports in the west.
24/08/2008
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Egypt's upper house of parliament is facing collapse after being engulfed by fire, injuring at least six people.
20/08/2008
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A court has ordered a prominent Malaysian blogger to reveal his sources for articles alleging sodomy accusations against an opposition leader, according to a lawyer.
14/08/2008
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Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the Brazilian president, has launched an international fund to finance conservation and sustainable development in the Amazon.
02/08/2008
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Restrictions on driving have been introduced in the Chinese capital, Beijing, in an attempt to improve the city's air quality in time for the Olympic Games.
20/07/2008
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George Bush, the US president, has welcomed what he said was "significant progress" on measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, despite criticsm that a three-day G8 summit in Japan has failed to set any specific targets or benchmarks fo
09/07/2008
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A controversial plan to sell US nuclear fuel and technology to India is good for both countries, George Bush, the US president, has told India's prime minister.
09/07/2008
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Biofuels have triggered a 75 per cent increase in world food prices, according to a leaked confidential report from the World Bank.
05/07/2008
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The Bangladesh government has raised fuel prices by between 34-67 per cent amid soaring crude oil prices, officials say.
02/07/2008
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Rescuers are searching for hundreds of people missing after their ferry capsized after being hit by typhoon-driven waves in the Philippines.
22/06/2008
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George Bush, the US president, has called on the US congress to end its ban on offshore oil drilling and open up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska to oil exploration.
19/06/2008
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Hundreds of farmers, hauliers and taxi drivers have blocked roads into Brussels, a day before an EU summit called to discuss ways to deal with the rising price of fuel.
18/06/2008
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