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BRUSSELS, Sept. 8 (UPI) -- Most of the Taliban operating in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar should be eliminated by the middle of November, a top military commander said.
 
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KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo, Sept. 8 (UPI) -- While African warlords and their shady business partners fight over the vast mineral riches of the Democratic Republic of Congo, another batt...
 
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BEIJING, Sept. 8 (UPI) -- Offshore wind power is gaining ground in China.
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LONDON, Sept. 8 (UPI) -- BP said its own engineers, rig operator Transocean and contractor Halliburton share part of the blame for the explosions on the Deepwater Horizon rig that resulted in the de...
 
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KIEV, Ukraine, Sept. 8 (UPI) -- Kiev is looking to expand its green energy portfolio as the country's energy company pays more than $700 million for August gas consumption, companies say.
 
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 (UPI) -- Two major cities in the southwestern United States received grants totaling nearly $1 million as part of a green communities initiative, the EPA announced.
 
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BRUSSELS, Sept. 8 (UPI) -- The Pakistani people are in dire need of food, clean water, sanitation and shelter as floodwaters recede, the European Union said.
 
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 (UPI) -- Lower levels of dissolved oxygen near the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill suggests microbes are eating subsurface oil, a U.S. study found.
 
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NAIROBI, Kenya, Sept. 8 (UPI) -- The offices of the U.N. Environment Program in Kenya can cut its carbon footprint by 3 percent in part by cutting paper and air travel, the agency said.
 
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SAN RAMON, Calif., Sept. 8 (UPI) -- U.S. supermajor Chevron Corp. announced it acquired more than 8,000 square miles of oil interests in the deep waters of the South China Sea.
 
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TEHRAN, Sept. 8 (UPI) -- Daily gasoline production in Iran has increased to the level that the country has become self-sufficient, the Iranian oil minister said.
 
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KIEV, Ukraine, Sept. 8 (UPI) -- Kiev hopes to persuade Moscow that the gas transit system in Ukraine is adequate enough to make the planned South Stream pipeline redundant, a minister said.
 
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CALGARY, Alberta, Sept. 8 (UPI) -- Canadian pipeline company Enbridge announced it won a multimillion-dollar contract from Husky Oil to build a new pipeline for Alberta oil sands.
 
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MOSCOW, Sept. 8 (UPI) -- Russian grain production for the year is expected to be comparable to 2009 despite a widespread drought, a government official said.
 
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SAN DIEGO, Sept. 8 (UPI) -- Sumar, one of the killer whales at SeaWorld San Diego died Tuesday at the early age of 12, a day after trainers noticed it was lethargic and seemed ill.
 
Created on:Tuesday, September 07 2010
WASHINGTON, Sept. 7 (UPI) -- A federal judge Tuesday rejected a U.S. Justice Department motion to lift an injunction barring federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research.
 
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 7 (UPI) -- After enjoying a three-day weekend, the crew of the International Space Station prepared for the arrival of a Russian resupply cargo craft, NASA said Tuesday.
 
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 7 (UPI) -- Two small asteroids will pass by the Earth Wednesday at distances closer than the moon, U.S. astronomers say.
 
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 7 (UPI) -- A U.S. study says that in a nuclear detonation people in large cities would be better off sheltering in place rather than trying to evacuate immediately.
 
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Sept. 7 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists studying planets outside the solar system say they think they could spot volcanoes on the distant worlds by their atmospheric signature.

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