Tue, 24 Jan 2012 03:10:00 +0100 (Reuters) - A vintage car drives through Coatesville, a few kilometers from Dotcom Mansion, home of Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom, in Auckland January 24, 2012. Dotcom, the founder of file-sharing website Megaupload was ordered to be held in custody by a New Zealand court on Monday, as he denied charges of internet piracy and money laundering and said authorities were trying to portray the blackest picture of him. REUTERS/Nigel Marple (NEW ZEALAND - Tags: CRIME LAW SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY BUSINESS)
Villagers in Jagatsinghpur district, about 140 kilometers east ...
Tue, 21 Jun 2011 16:30:09 +0200 (AFP) - Villagers in Jagatsinghpur district, about 140 kilometers east of Bhubaneswar protest lat week against using their farmland for a $12 bn steel plant for the South Korean conglomerate Posco. he Indian state of Orissa has temporarily halted land acquisition for the plant after mass protests by locals and rights groups.(AFP/Str)
New city of Kilamba Kiaxi is being built 30 kilometers from ...
Tue, 14 Jun 2011 09:10:13 +0200 (AFP/File) - New city of Kilamba Kiaxi is being built 30 kilometers from Luanda, Angola. The first phase of the 3.3 million square metres Chinese development is due for completion in December 2012. It will provide housing for 120,000 people in 710 apartment buildings rising up to 13 stories, complete with schools, shops and parks.(AFP/File/Griffin Shea)
Oil workers are seen at Zubair oil field near Basra, 550 kilometers ...
Sun, 15 May 2011 14:00:01 +0200 (AP) - Oil workers are seen at Zubair oil field near Basra, 550 kilometers (340 miles) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, May 15, 2011. State-run Iraqi Drilling Company started Sunday drilling new wells in Iraq’s 4.1 billion barrels Zubair oil field near Basra. IDC was awarded a nearly $250,000-deal last year to drill 23 new wells and to workover 63 other wells due to be completed in the coming two years. It has deployed four drilling rigs and four workover rigs. The field was among nearly a dozen oil fields Iraq awarded in 2009 during two International energy bidding rounds. It is being developed by Italy’s Eni and partners Los Angeles-based Occidental Petroleum Corp. and South Korea’s KOGAS. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jourani)
Libyan rebels walk on a road a few kilometers from Ajdabiya. ...
Thu, 24 Mar 2011 23:10:05 +0100 (AFP) - Libyan rebels walk on a road a few kilometers from Ajdabiya. World oil prices crept higher on Thursday as as traders eyed further unrest in the Middle East and North Africa and kept an eye on Portugal's debt crisis.(AFP/Aris Messinis)
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