UNITED STATES: Bush keeps upper hand on environment

The administration's ideological scepticism about environmental goals and its predilections...

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RUSSIA/CANADA: Russia uses Canada as American bridge

Vologda-based steelmaker Severstal offered to buy up Ontario's troubled Stelco on Tuesday....

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Moscow's ratification has improved its political standing in the world, not least in its...

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The upper house of the Russian parliament yesterday ratified the Kyoto Protocol. The move follows...

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Steady growth in soya production in both Brazil and Argentina to service expanding export markets...

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The country's rapidly growing diamond industry is bringing growth and higher incomes to the...

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There has been renewed interest in nuclear power as an energy source. However, the industry's...

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Prime Minister Paul Martin's Liberal Party will form a minority government after winning more...

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Africa is the most rapidly urbanising continent in the world. City authorities are being...

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The Kuwaiti National Assembly this week debated the state's water shortage. Gulf states have so...

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