Villagers in Trinidad and Tobago Battle Alcoa's Plans
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OTAHEITE, Trinidad _ When Ramos Ramdeo gazes at the water off this southern fishing village, he sees more than the crystal blue color, choppy waves and one of the world's richest shrimp spawning grounds. He sees his livelihood.
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SIDOARJO, Indonesia  - Village chief Haji Hasan is   looking for a miracle to save what is left of the Indonesian   hamlet of Kedungbendo from a torrent of mud flowing unchecked   from an exploratory oil well.
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Alcan Inc. has begun negotiating toward a merger agreement with Rio Tinto PLC to fend off a hostile bid from U.S. rival Alcoa Inc., Canada's the Globe and Mail newspaper reported on its Web site.
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When the local government announced it was going to confiscate their homes and businesses to make room for a new development, residents of this village in southeastern China fought back.
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Revolution defender Avery John hoped to be performing for Trinidad and Tobago in the Gold Cup. But John is among a group of Soca Warrior players who have been banned from the national team while involved in a pay dispute with the country's football federation.
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Opponents to a massive wind farm proposed for the Western Isles are threatening court action.
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Tasmanian firefighters are battling to save a small town that has been completely cut off by raging bushfires.
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A council says it faces a fight to win one the UK's next generation of nuclear power stations.
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NEW YORK - Taran Rampersad didn't complain when he failed to find anything on his hometown in the online encyclopedia Wikipedia. Instead, he simply wrote his own entry for San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago...
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Rubber tappers,  fishermen and Indians in western Brazil have joined  environmental groups in battling a planned $9 billion  hydroelectric project that will flood one of the Amazon's main  tributaries.
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A plan by landowners to build a house in Truro, Mass., has angered residents who say the house will obstruct a view made famous by the artist Edward Hopper.
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People in the Cornish village of Boscastle are trying to protect their properties from flooding.
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Rio Tinto  , the world's second-biggest miner, is drawing up plans to gatecrash Alcoa Inc's  $28 billion hostile bid for North American rival Alcan Inc , the Daily Telegraph said on Friday.
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Indigenous groups in Bolivia set up roadblocks around Santa Cruz in protest at 'stalled' land reforms.
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People of Venezuela fight to keep cheap petrol as government remains wedded to subsidy
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By Linda Golz, The Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio  Feb. 12--The fight over access to water in southern Medina County has been waged for years.
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impoverished inhabitants of the Niger delta, which pumps all the nation&#39;s oil. The government says he. is just a bandit fighting for control of smuggling routes used by oil thieves.