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German business sees new ally in resurgent Green partyBerlin (AFP) Oct 3, 2010 Germany's resurgent Green party is setting records in the opinion polls and being tentatively courted by unlikely new suitors: industry types who long saw the environmentalists as adversaries. Particularly smaller, often family-owned, businesses - the backbone of the Europe's biggest economy - are being drawn in by the opposition Greens' programme of pragmatic sustainability. "The Greens and small- and medium-sized businesses - it is a match practically made in heaven," said Mario Ohoven, pre ... read more |
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New York (AFP) Sept 27, 2010The United States said Monday that it hoped to reach a solution with India on a law regulating its nuclear energy market after business leaders charged that it would deter investment. The issue arose during talks in New York between US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Indian Foreign Minister S.M. Krishna, which were meant to lay the groundwork for President Barack Obama's visit to New ... more  
Berlin (AFP) Sept 26, 2010Regalvanised opposition to nuclear power and a bitter national row on immigration threaten to derail Angela Merkel's attempts to give her fractious government a fresh start one year after her re-election. And with six crucial state polls looming next year, Merkel is under the gun to get her centre-right alliance on track. On September 27, 2009, Merkel scraped to victory with her conserva ... more 
Niamey, Niger (UPI) Sep 24, 2010 Suddenly, the uranium mining industry is becoming a risky business, it seems. Islamic militants who kidnapped seven people at a French-owned uranium mine in Niger Sept. 16 have warned Western firms that "steal our wealth to leave promptly." In recent months, the steep rise in the price of uranium oxide, used to fuel nuclear power plants, has attracted Canadian, Australian and ... more |
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Tourists flock to Chernobyl radiation zoneChernobyl, Ukraine (AFP) Sept 23, 2010 Yellow Geiger counter in hand, the guide announces that radiation levels are 35 times higher than normal. Welcome to Chernobyl, the site in 1986 of the worst nuclear disaster in history and now an attraction visited by thousands of tourists every year. Nearly 25 years after a reactor at the Soviet-era plant exploded, the irradiated zone around Chernobyl is attracting curious visitors from around the world, from nuclear specialists to ordinary tourists, willing to pay 160 dollars (122 euros) a day to ... read more |
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