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Caesars Report's Second Most Important Factor in Picking a Winning Mining Investment
... on its Serbian copper-gold project. TL: The most surprising country is France. It has an overseas department, French Guiana, which borders Brazil and Suriname. Because it is part of France, the political risk is almost zero. A company there called ... Comment?
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City Interview: Avanti boldly goes on expansion quest after value of...
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... Avanti's third satellite, Hylas 3, is due to hitch a ride on the Ariane 5 rocket, launching from French Guiana in 2015 in partnership with the European Space Agency. If Avanti continues growing at the pace it has done, he may not have too long to ... Comment?
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French Ambassador to Explore New Ways of Cooperation
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... Mr. Chee-A-Tow , mentioned ongoing discussions that could possibly lead to Air France flying to Barbados and French Guiana. Ambassador Sturm pointed out : "At present, most French tourists go to Martinique and Guadeloupe for obvious reasons - the ... Comment?
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Corrections and clarifications
... seven men were found guilty on 43 charges, not 45 as stated in the online version of the page 1 story. a It is French Guiana, not French Guyana as we had it in a feature about plans by Vicky Pryce, recently released from prison following her ... Comment?
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BP, Total Win Exploration Rights In Brazil's Amazon Basin
... ajor discoveries. Tullow Oil Plc in 2011 sparked interest in the region with the Zaedyus find off the coast of French Guiana. -- BERNAMA-NNN-MERCOPRESS Comment?
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ATV Albert Einstein is installed on its Ariane 5 launcher for Arianespace's next heavy-lift mission
... - was lowered by an overhead crane onto its Ariane 5 inside the 90-meter-tall Final Assembly Building in French Guiana. The payload fairing - which will complete the launcher build up - will be mounted closer to the launch date, allowing for loading ... Comment?
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Guyana signs offshore oil exploration deal with Spain's Repsol
... shoulder of South America has become a new frontier for oil exploration, with a large discovery off nearby French Guiana and a bidding round off the coast of northern Brazil bringing new attention from global oil firms. Last year, Tullow made a big ... Comment?
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Brazil Oil Auction Gathers Drillers With Taste of Africa: Energy
... spread over 11 basins will be focused on the mainly untapped offshore Foz do Amazonas basin near neighboring French Guiana, according to consulting firm Wood Mackenzie Ltd. The area, mostly unexplored except for efforts by BP Plc, Tullow Oil Plc and ... Comment?
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Brazil picks suppliers for electronic border fence
... is expected to cost $6 billion. The Latin American giant shares borders with Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay , Peru, Suriname, Uruguay and Venezuela. Last year Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff 's government hired the ... Comment?
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... Environment and Disaster Monitoring Satellite (VNRED Sat-1). The satellite was carried into orbit from French Guiana by VERTA 1, the second Vega launcher. VNRED Sat-1 was built on behalf of the Vietnamese Academy of Science and Technology (VAST) in ... Comment?
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Vietnam to launch second remote sensing satellite into orbit by 2017
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... micro-satellite, ESTCube-1 to test an electric solar sail -- by Arianespace from the Guiana Space Center, French Guiana at 9:06 a.m. on May 7 (Hanoi time). According to the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, the satellite successfully sent ... Comment?
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Saint International modelling agency CEO Deiwght Peters recently served as a guest judge at the beMode Miss Carabes Guyane pageant in French Guiana, ahead of StyleWeek Jamaica slated for May 22-26, 2013, which will see a group of officials from that country jetting in as special guests. Comment?
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French minister wants land for slaves’ descendants
... the reason behind the state's push to purchase land,' Taubira added. As a French MP representing her native French Guiana in 2001, Taubira authored a law that recognises slavery as a crime against humanity. More recently, as France's justice ... Comment?
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A Better World Is Possible
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... tested by the ESTCube-1 satellite, which launched last night aboard a Vega rocket from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana. [...] The ESTCube-1 satellite, the work of Estonian students testing out Janhunen's ideas, uses a long wire that maintains ... Comment?
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Phed X signs distribution deal with VP Records
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... strong rotation in several countries including Jamaica, the US on Sirius Satellite Radio, Guyana, England and French Guiana. "Right now the tune is getting really good support from a lot of deejays all over in the US, Jamaica, Guyana and a number of ... Comment?
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The launch of Europe's lightweight rocket, Vega , planned for May 4 from Kourou in French Guiana, was put off on May 6 because of poor weather conditions at the space base, the European Space Agency said. Comment?
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ESTCube-1 Reaches Orbit, Estonia Becomes 41st Space Nation
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... of five years," Noorma said. Speaker of Parliament Ene Ergma, an astrophysicist by training who was in French Guiana to observe the launch, said Estonia is now a "tiny space country." by Red Badger (Want to be surprised? Google your own ... Comment?
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Vietnam to launch 2nd remote sensing satellite into orbit by 2017
... micro-satellite, ESTCube-1 to test an electric solar sail -- by Arianespace from the Guiana Space Center, French Guiana at 9:06 a.m. on May 7 (Hanoi time). According to the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, the satellite successfully sent ... Comment?
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e2v Image Sensors Study the Earth's Vegetation on Board Proba-V, ESA's Newly Launched Microsatellite
... ESA which has been specifically designed to chart global vegetation. The satellite was carried into orbit from French Guiana by VERTA 1, the second Vega launcher. For almost 15 years the vegetation instruments on board the Spot 4 and 5 Earth ... Comment?
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Arianespace confirms 4th Automated Transfer Vehicle ready to launch
... announced in a statement mailed to Xinhua on Thursday. "Fueling has been completed at the Spaceport in French Guiana for Europe's fourth Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV), readying it for a planned June launch with Arianespace's workhorse Ariane 5 on ... Comment?
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