Work starts on biggest-ever Panama canal overhaul
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PARAISO, Panama  - Work started on Monday on a $5.2 billion expansion of Panama's famous canal, the largest-ever overhaul of the short cut between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.
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Contractors get a boost from a major west African project.
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There's a brawl brewing as Congress works up the most sweeping overhaul of the patent system in half a century.
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Mexico and a U.S. environmental group agreed on a plan to protect 370,000 acres of tropical forest on the Yucatan Peninsula in what officials said Friday was the largest conservation project in the country's history.
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The reforms, part of Ankaraâs efforts to bring Turkeyâs laws and regulations into line with those of the European Union in order to boost its chances of being given a date to open accession talks with the bloc, are the largest overhaul of the Penal
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In order to cut fuel costs and reach further into its targeted regional destinations, the countryâs second biggest carrier, Cebu Pacific (CEB), is totally overhauling its entire fleet
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PANAMA CITY, Panama  - Defense Secretary Donald  Rumsfeld lowered a freighter into the Pacific Ocean from the  Panama Canal on Sunday and praised Panamanian steps to protect  the vital waterway from terrorist attack.
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In its first voyage since being turned into a floating military museum, the fabled aircraft carrier USS Intrepid traveled five miles to a New Jersey shipyard, ready to undergo a two-year, stem-to-stern overhaul.
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Workers in Central Park are now preparing for the biggest public art project the city has ever seen, "The Gates," by the artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude.
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A ground-breaking ceremony has heralded the official start of construction work on Berlin's long-delayed international airport as the city scrambles to bring its air links up to the standard of other European capitals.
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The US coast guard stages a huge exercise to prepare for a possible mass Cuban exodus.
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By GRAEME SMITH  A GBP14m project at RAF Kinloss which will use reed beds to clean up the surface run-off water from the runway and aircraft parking bays before it is pumped into Burghhead Bay opened yesterday.
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HOUSTON -- Exxon Mobil Corp., the world's largest publicly traded oil company, said Wednesday it plans to begin more than 20 new global projects in the next three years, investments expected to add 1 million oil-equivalent barrels a day to its volumes.
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Panama asked the International Maritime Organization on Monday for an audit of its 7,000 ships, the largest fleet in the world, to help it improve security and environmental controls.
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PANAMA CITY, Panama -- When the United States gave Panama control over its canal, many observers predicted that the international waterway would be plagued by problems at best and chaos at worst.
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Vast efforts are underway to rebuild the region's natural hurricane defenses.
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$18bn, 12-year project Nicaraguan president Enrique BolaÃ±os has called for international backing for a Nicargua canal linking the Atlantic and Pacific which, he says, is "needed for the rise in world shipping".â¦