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 INTERVIEW - New climate partnership planned to protect forests
| OSLO (Reuters) - Governments will seek a new climate partnership in 2010 to protect tropical forests with funds going through the United Nations, the World Bank or bilateral channels, Norway said on... (photo: AP / Virginia Mayo) The Star
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 China, India give qualified nod to climate deal
| AMSTERDAM-China and India have given their qualified approval to the Copenhagen climate accord calling for voluntary limits on greenhouse gas emissions. | More than 100 countries had earlier respond... (photo: WN / Janice Sabnal) The Boston Globe
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 Thai ship free after ransom - Somali pirates
| MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somalia pirates said they had released the Thai-flagged Thai Union 3 ship on Sunday after receiving a $3 million ransom. | The tuna fishing vessel... (photo: AP / EU NAVFOR) The Star
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 Government must take back control of North Sea oil and gas production
| Professor Peter Odell, adviser to OPEC, says state authority would ensure oil companies work in the national interest | Government needs to maximise remaining North Sea... (photo: Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 / Stan Shebs) The Guardian
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 Ukraine vows new page in ties with Russia
Saturday, March 06, 2010 | MOSCOW: Ukraine's new President Viktor Yanukovych vowed on Friday to end years of acrimony with giant neighbour Russia, as he paid his first vi... (photo: AP Photo/Sergei Chuzavkov) The News International
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 New Ukraine leader soothes Russia, no gas deals
| MOSCOW (Reuters) - Ukraine's new president Viktor Yanukovich soothed Moscow on Friday by suggesting he would reverse key policies of his pro-Western predecessor, but wo... (photo: AP / Natalia Kolosnikova, pool) The Star
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 Ukraine's Leader, in Russia, Promises Better Ties
| MOSCOW — Ukraine’s newly elected president, Viktor F. Yanukovich, arrived in Moscow on Friday promising a “sharp turn” in his country’s re... (photo: AP / RIA Novosti, Vladimir Rodionov, Presidential Press Service) The New York Times
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 Danes denied humpback whale hunt
| New York - The International Whaling Commission has refused a Danish request to allow limited hunting of humpback whales off the coast of Greenland. | The proposal fail... (photo: Creative Commons / berraschungsbilder) Independent online
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 Passenger ferry freed from Baltic Sea ice
| STOCKHOLM-A passenger ferry with nearly 1,000 people on board returned safely to the Stockholm harbor early Friday after having broken free from heavy pack ice that had... (photo: AP / Johan Engman) The Boston Globe
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