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Drilling for oil and gas around the harsh, remote island of Sakhalin in Russia's Far East was never going to be easy, but a political chill has put some of the world's biggest energy projects in an unexpected deep freeze. In the decade since they [an error occurred while processing this directive] negotiated separate drilling agreements with Russian authorities, ExxonMobil and Royal Dutch Shell have gone way over budget and incurred the wrath of leading environmental groups. But last week, the two oil majors faced their biggest challenge so far: a Kremlin backlash that could hold...
...Vermont player slid directly under Fucito, knocking him clean off his feet and garnering a yellow card in the process.“They are going to try to shut [Fucito] down,” Kerr said. “He is going to have to deal with some harsh treatment and hopefully the referees will protect him.”Harvard had one more big opportunity to score in the second half, but wasn’t able to capitalize on the chance. The Crimson brought the ball down to three feet in front of the Catamount...
...heart with moral values and respect for the other." And that was among the tamer reactions. Another Turkish leader compared the German Pontiff to Hitler and Mussolini, calling him a "poor thing" with a "dark mentality." Through a spokesman, the Pope said he did not mean to endorse any harsh criticism of Islam. The trip to Ankara and Istanbul, where Benedict hopes to celebrate the Feast of St. Andrew on Nov. 30 with the Orthodox Patriarch of Constantinople, is now a definite maybe. It's unlikely that Benedict imagined the situation unraveling so rapidly when he sat down to hammer...
Afghanistan Force Seeking boots on the ground NATO commanders have asked for 2,500 more troops to fight the Taliban before the harsh winter hinders their efforts. Allied Defense Ministers are expected to reply at a meeting next week...
...Whether or not the Pope imagined the furor his words would spark - and many would argue it wasn't hard to foresee - the Vatican's attempts at damage control may be a little too late. The speech has already elicited harsh denunciations from political and religious leaders from Pakistan and Iraq to Lebanon and the Palestinian Territories. In Turkey, the home of Pope John Paul II's would-be assassin Mehmet Ali Agca, the comments struck such a nerve that they managed to erase old distinctions between conservative Muslims, including leaders of the ruling Justice and Development party, and secular...