Production at Venezuela gas field to start in 15 months
September 7th, 2012 - 11:29 am ICT by IANS
Lecheria (Venezuela), Sep 7 (IANS/EFE) Spain's Repsol said it expects production at the Perla gas field, located off Venezuela's northwestern coast and one of the world's largest, to begin in ... Read more...
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Sri Lanka to call for oil exploration bids
October 6th, 2011 - 2:15 pm ICT by IANS
Colombo, Oct 6 (IANS) Sri Lanka is to call bids for oil and gas exploration for five blocks off the country's northwestern coast, a minister said Thursday.Interest in the blocks ... Read more...
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Sri lanka finds first gas field off Mannar
October 3rd, 2011 - 4:14 pm ICT by IANS
Colombo, Oct 3 (IANS) Cairn India has discovered Sri Lanka's first gas field off its northwestern coast in the Sea of Mannar, Xinhua reported.President Mahinda Rajapaksa announced the discovery at ... Read more...
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1.3 mn evacuated as Muifa brushes past China (Second Lead)
August 9th, 2011 - 12:00 am ICT by IANS
Beijing, Aug 8 (IANS) More than 1.3 million people were evacuated as the tropical storm Muifa brushed past China's eastern coast, Xinhua reported Monday.Muifa, after crossing China, made a landfall ... Read more...
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Strong earthquake hits western Japan, unrelated to major 8.9 jolt
March 12th, 2011 - 3:15 am ICT by BNO News
TOKYO (BNO NEWS) -- A strong earthquake struck western Japan on early Saturday morning, seismologists said, but the earthquake was not an aftershock to Friday's massive jolt that devastated the country.The 6.6-magnitude ... Read more...
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Bombs Traced Back To WWII Found On Galapagos Islands
October 29th, 2010 - 7:22 pm ICT by Pen Men At Work
October 29, 2010 (Pen Men at Work): Fishermen have recovered more than a dozen bombs that can be traced back to the World War II. The government officials revealed the news ... Read more...
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Chemical tanker in trouble off French coast
October 8th, 2010 - 8:43 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
A chemical tanker with thousands of tons of gasoline product was seen being towed toward the northwestern coast of France on Friday. The tanker collided with a large bulk carrier ship ... Read more...
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LTTE bombs Colombo, plane shot down (Fourth Lead)
February 21st, 2009 - 12:46 am ICT by IANS
Colombo, Feb 20 (IANS) Two Tamil Tiger planes bombed the Sri Lankan capital Friday night, but one of them was shot down as it flew back towards the country's north, military officials ... Read more...
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15 Tigers die, army seizes fresh rebel territory (Lead)
July 20th, 2008 - 6:05 pm ICT by IANS
Colombo, July 20 (IANS) At least 15 Tamil Tiger guerrillas were killed and several wounded as government troops seized Sunday a rebel base in Sri Lanka's north-western Mannar district after 20 long ... Read more...
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Troops recapture rebel stronghold on Sri Lanka coast
July 20th, 2008 - 4:29 pm ICT by IANS
DPA
Colombo, July 20 (DPA) Government troops with air cover recaptured a rebel stronghold on the northwestern coast of Sri Lanka as two soldiers and at least 18 rebels were killed, the defence ... Read more...
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Sri Lankan troops capture strategic Sea Tiger base
July 16th, 2008 - 12:39 pm ICT by IANS
By P. Karunakharan
Colombo, July 16 (IANS) Sri Lankan troops have captured fresh territory held by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) as well as a strategically important Sea Tiger base in ... Read more...
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