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 Vast Oil Reserve May Now Be Within Reach, and Battle Heats Up

FELLOWS, Calif: Secure in this state’s history and mythology, the venerable Midway-Sunset oil field near here keeps producing crude more than a century after Southern California’s oil boom. Many of its bobbing pump jacks are relatively short, a telltale sign of the shallowness of the wells and the e...

 Afghanistan’s Big Sort: Separating Trash from Treasure in a Container City

Forward Operating Base Shank, Logar Province This is the third in a series of dispatches on Afghanistan in retrograde, stories documenting the logistical withdrawal of U.S. forces and materiel from the war-torn country. Retrograde is a military term for the dismantling of installations. The road...

 Feature: China-built hospital helps Afghan war victims in Kandahar

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan: The protracted war and conflicts have converted a China-built general hospital in Kandahar to a main surgical center for the war victims in the southern Afghan region -- a former stronghold for insurgent groups. "My family shifted me to Chinese Kandahar hospital shortly afte...

 Cars are the new bikes in China and the love affair is choking air in cities

BEIJING : Endless lines of slow-moving cars emerge like apparitions and then disappear again into the gloom of the thick smog that has shrouded Beijing this week and reduced its skyline to blurry gray shapes.With more than 13 million cars sold in China last year, motor vehicles have emerged as the c...

 RENEWABLE ENERGY:Solar growth moves to China, Middle East and India as Europe cuts subsidies

As European governments continue to slash solar energy subsidies, the industry is looking toward China, Africa and the Middle East to provide most of the demand that will ensure its future growth.Guaranteed above-market prices allowed solar power markets to grow rapidly in Germany, Italy and Spain, ...

 Afghan father hands over 'bomber son' to police

An Afghan father in the northern city of Kunduz has handed over his teenaged son to police after becoming worried he might have been groomed to become a suicide bomber. The father told the BBC he had been worried about his son for some time. He said he panicked on hearing of a suicide attack in ...

 1,400 fresh graduates in Afghan army

1,400 fresh graduates in Afghan army KABUL: A total of 1,400 soldiers graduated from Kabul Military Training Center (KMTC) on Thursday and were commissioned to Afghan National Army (ANA), General Aminullah Patyannai commander of KMTC said. "After completion of three-month training, some 1,400 so...

 Afghanistan Will Not Cope with Climate Change: Karzai

President Hamid Karzai Tuesday highlighted his grave concerns for Afghanistan's water resources saying that climate change may further complicate the country's situation into a problem it will not cope with. At the third national conference on Afghanistan's development and management of water reso...

 Departing U.S. general in Afghanistan weighs gains and uncertainty

KABUL: Gen. John R. Allen was leaving Helmand province for the last time, his jet flying high above the desert moonscape that saw a bloody American military campaign and then an unprecedented withdrawal of U.S. troops. Allen arrived here 18 months ago, charged with two seemingly contradictory goal...

 China now burning as much coal as the rest of the world combined

China’s coal use grew 9 percent in 2011, rising to 3.8 billion tons. At this point, the country is burning nearly as much coal as the rest of the world combined.Coal, of course, is the world’s premier fossil fuel, a low-cost source of electricity that kicks a lot of carbon-dioxide up into the atmosp...