Indian company to pay $2.6B for Britain's Imperial

India's state-run Oil & Natural Gas Corp. has agreed to buy Britain's Imperial Energy PLC for $2.6 billion in a cash deal that will help ONGC meet surging fuel demand from its burgeoning domestic economy.

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Finally, It's a Boy for Japanese Royals

Japan's Princess Kiko gave birth to the royal family's first male heir in four decades on Wednesday, easing a succession crisis and quelling an emotional political debate over whether to allow women on the throne.

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Japan May Have New Male Heir to Throne

Just a few weeks ago, the campaign to make women eligible for Japan's time-honored Chrysanthemum Throne seemed assured of victory. Now that movement is frozen in its tracks, thanks to a powerful newcomer on the royal scene: a 6-week-old embryo.

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An Imperial man is dead after accidentally shooting himself in the head while teaching his girlfriend firearm safety.

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The liberal and progressive civil libertarians I know who strongly supported Barack Obama's "change" campaign last year are having a difficult time processing some deeply disturbing recent developments in Washington. In one of its most horrifying acts, the Obama administration f …

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its chief mouthpiece – the Washington Post's neoconservative editorial page – was glowing over its good fortune in the three-plus weeks since Barack Obama's election On Friday, the Post's lead editorial thanked President-elect Obama for settling on insider favorites f …

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Obama's unconditional support for Israel's policy of "self defense," preemptive attacks, and repressive occupations is not one iota different from that of George W. Bush, an internationally recognized war criminal.

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Wake up, America! On July 15, the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled by 5 votes to 4 in the case of Al-Marri v.

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At a candidate forum for trial lawyers in Chicago on Sunday, Hillary Clinton proclaimed that the Bush administration is "the most radical presidency we have ever had."

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Who has controlled the Middle East over the course of history? Pretty much everyone. Egyptians, Turks, Jews, Romans, Arabs, Persians, Europeans...the list goes on. Who will control the Middle East today? That is a much bigger question.

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While Iraqis struggled in the chaos of Baghdad after the invasion, the Americans sent to rebuild the nation led a cocooned existence in the centre of the capital - complete with booze, hot dogs and luxury villas.

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London looks set to topple New York as the finance and style capital of the globe.The city has the largest professional population in the world;forty per cent of its inhabitants are foreign born and three hundred different languages are spoken.It is strangely the seventh la …

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President George W. Bush has always had an imperial vision of the US presidency. Losing control of Congress has, if anything, made him more determined to wield the weapon of unfettered executive power whenever he can get away with it.

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Well it's about time NASA, welcome aboard.

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Was World War One a triumph of democracy over imperial expansion or an exercise in military futility? Dr Gary Sheffield examines the origins of the conflict.

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Jonathan Cutler: If there is a central principle animating Noam Chomsky's commentaries on US foreign policy, it is his affinity for Realpolitik analysis. As Chomsky argues in a recent interview, "Our leaders have rational imperial interests.

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The beastly Imperial concept that was really love/hate in all aspects is getting ready for production in 2010. Instead of riding on the LX Platform (300, Magnum, Charger) or LY Platform (Challenger concept), it will ride on the same platform as the Mercedes R-Class.

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And why wouldn't profits increase, when the prices increased to the consumer like they have in the last six months.

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