Archive for the November 2, 2005
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Ireland will spend 34.4 billion euros ($41.3 billion) on transport infrastructure over the next 10 years to improve roads and railways struggling with a rise in traffic spurred by economic boom, the government said on
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Russia should come up with a coherent programme on what it wants to do with its windfall oil revenues and maybe put some aside for future generations, a World Bank economist said on Tuesday. "We
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Oil major Shell on Tuesday continued to scale down production at its Rotterdam refinery, Europe's biggest, potentially tightening pre-winter fuel supplies. The strike, launched on Monday, was the first by Shell workers in the Netherlands
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US conglomerate General Electric Co said Tuesday it had won a big contract to supply 300 train locomotives to China to help in the booming country's bid to modernise its vast rail network. GE said
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US manufacturing output continued to expand solidly in October as factories took on more workers despite an energy-related increase in costs, a new survey showed on Tuesday. The Institute for Supply Management said its index
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Russia said on Tuesday it would chair meetings of finance ministers from the Group of Eight nations next year, potentially boosting its standing in a global policy forum it has in the past attended as
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Pakistan told the UN General assembly on Tuesday that it looks forward to importing nuclear plants and relevant civilian technology to operationalise it''s 25-year plan aimed at meeting the country''s rising energy needs. "Nuclear power
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Pakistan told the UN General assembly on Tuesday that it looks forward to importing nuclear plants and relevant civilian technology to operationalise it's 25-year plan aimed at meeting the country's rising energy needs. "Nuclear power
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Pakistan told the UN General assembly on Tuesday that it looks forward to importing nuclear plants and relevant civilian technology to operationalise it's 25-year plan aimed at meeting the country's rising energy needs. "Nuclear power
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"Responding to the greatest natural disaster in Pakistan, Norwegian Refugees Council (NRC) is reaching out to the remote areas of district Shangla and Balakot to distribute tents and stoves among the quake-hit people ", said
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