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Deadly Shanghai Fire Underscores Shortcuts in China’s Building Boom (Time.com)

November 18th, 2010

Time.com - A devastating fire in a Shanghai apartment tower this week has raised concernsabout the safety risks of China’s ongoing building boom

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At least 55 killed in Delhi building collapse (Reuters)

November 15th, 2010

Rescue workers search for survivors under the rubble of a collapsed building in New Delhi November 16, 2010. REUTERS/Adnan AbidiReuters - At least 55 people were killed and 75 injured after a multi-storey building collapsed in east Delhi late Monday, local media said.


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Haiti: Where Building a Hospital Can be Illegal (Time.com)

November 14th, 2010

Time.com - Haiti’s government finds itself caught between the need to house more than a million people displaced by the earthquake, and the rights of landowners

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Bomb explodes next to Yemen ruling party building (Reuters)

November 11th, 2010

Reuters - A bomb exploded next to the headquarters of Yemen’s ruling party in the south of the country Thursday, a local official said, but it was unclear who was…

Israeli settlers building 544 new homes after building ban lifted (AP)

October 20th, 2010

A Palestinian worker stands on a construction site in the West Bank Jewish settlement of Kiryat Arba, near Hebron, Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2010. Israeli settlers have begun work on at least 544 new homes since Israel's 10-month-old moratorium on West Bank housing starts expired three weeks ago, according to an Associated Press count based on an extensive tour of settlements and interviews with mayors, construction workers and a contractor. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill)AP - Israeli settlers have begun building new homes at an extraordinary pace since the government lifted its moratorium on West Bank housing starts — almost 550 in three weeks,…

Israeli building slowdown ends; settlers celebrate (AP)

September 26th, 2010

Jewish settlers participate in a cornerstone laying ceremony for a daycare center at the West Bank Jewish settlement of Kiryat Netafim, Sunday, Sept. 26, 2010. With a midnight deadline looming, Israel's prime minister on Sunday called on West Bank settlers to 'show restraint' after the end of a government-ordered construction slowdown, attempting to lower tensions with the Palestinians and prevent a breakdown in newly re-launched Mideast talks. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)AP - Jewish settlers released balloons and broke ground on a kindergarten in celebration Sunday as a 10-month construction slowdown expired, while U.S. and Israeli leaders tried to figure out…

Israel: Settlers brace for end of building freeze (AP)

September 25th, 2010

An Israeli soldier detains a protester during a demonstration against Israel's settlements in the West Bank village of Beit Omar, near the city of Hebron, Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010. (AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi)AP - Israeli settlers have hauled construction equipment into a Jewish settlement deep inside the West Bank, officials said Saturday, preparing to break ground on a new housing project even…

Iran official announces building of new nuke site (AP)

August 16th, 2010

FILE - In this Nov. 30, 2009 file photo released by the semi-official Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA), Iranian technicians, work with foreign colleagues at the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant, just outside the southern port city of Bushehr, Iran. Russia announced Friday, Aug. 13, 2010 that it will begin the startup next week of Iran's only atomic power plant, giving Tehran a boost as it struggles with binternational/b sanctions and highlighting differences between Moscow and Washington over pressuring the Islamic Republic to give up activities that could be used to make nuclear arms. (AP Photo/ISNA,Mehdi Ghasemi)  EDITORIAL USE ONLYAP - Iran said Monday it will begin building a new site to enrich uranium by March, moving ahead with a plan that defies international efforts to curb its nuclear…

Iran studies building nuclear fusion reactor (AP)

July 24th, 2010

A general view shows the Bushehr nuclear power plant in the Iranian Persian Gulf port of Bushehr in 2006. The European Union reached agreement Thursday on a package of sanctions against Iran which targets Tehran's energy sector over its refusal to halt sensitive nuclear work, an EU diplomat said.(AFP/File)AP - Iran’s nuclear agency began studies Saturday to build an experimental nuclear fusion reactor, something that has yet to be achieved by any nation.


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APNewsBreak: Israel halts east Jerusalem building (AP)

April 26th, 2010

An Ultra-orthodox Jewish boy climbs on timber beams at a construction site in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Ramat Shlomo, Monday, April 26, 2010. Under heavy U.S. pressure, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has imposed a de facto freeze on new Jewish construction in disputed east Jerusalem despite his declarations to the contrary, city officials said Monday, a move likely to enrage hardline supporters but advance U.S.-backed Mideast peace efforts. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)AP - Israel’s prime minister has effectively frozen new Jewish construction in east Jerusalem, municipal officials said Monday, reflecting the need to mend a serious rift with the U.S. and…