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The Biggest Crash On EarthBonn, Germany (SPX) Sep 21, 2010 During the collision of India with the Eurasian continent, the Indian plate is pushed about 500 kilometers under Tibet, reaching a depth of 250 kilometers. The result of this largest collision in the world is the world's highest mountain range, but the tsunami in the Indian Ocean from 2004 was also created by earthquakes generated by this collision. The clash of the two continents is very complex, the Indian plate, for example, is compressed where it collides with the very rigid plate of the Tarim ... read more |
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London (AFP) Sept 20, 2010A television crew filmed a "lost" population of tigers living at a higher altitude than any others known, raising hopes of linking isolated groups of the big cats across Asia, the BBC said Monday. The cats were spotted roaming in the hills in the remote Himalayan nation of Bhutan by a conservationist and a team from the BBC's Natural History Unit at a height of 4,100 metres (13,450 feet), sa ... more  
New York (AFP) Sept 20, 2010The 17 nations responsible for 80 percent of carbon emissions blamed for global warming will seek to unblock stalled climate negotiations this week but analysts expect little progress. The two-day Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate kicks off Monday and will include top government envoys, including US special envoy for climate change Todd Stern. US President Barack Obama launched ... more  
Bamako (AFP) Sept 20, 2010France has dispatched 80 troops to the Niger capital Niamey following the abduction of seven people including five French nationals, diplomatic and security sources said Monday. The troops have set up a base in the capital and are working in five teams with a mission to find the seven hostages, the sources said. They have French Breguet-Atlantique reconnaissance planes at their disposal ... more |
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Iraq sets gas field auction for October 20Baghdad (AFP) Sept 20, 2010 Iraq is to hold a public auction on October 20 for the rights to work on three gas fields, an oil ministry spokesman said on Monday. The sale of the undeveloped fields, which have estimated reserves totalling about 317 billion cubic metres - bcm (11 trillion cubic feet - tcf), follows two invitations to tender for oil fields last year in which 10 contracts were agreed with foreign energy giants. "We have decided to hold the gas field auction on October 20," oil ministry spokesman Assem Jihad t ... read more |
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