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Venezuela's Maduro says he wants dialogue with US
Sep 21, 2025 (AFP)
The letter addressed to Trump is dated September 6 and was sent days after the United States deployed warships off the coast of Venezuela and carried out the fi...
Venezuela claims 'impregnable' defenses; experts doubtful
Sep 19, 2025 (AFP)
But military experts take a dim view of Venezuela's combat readiness, saying years of crisis have made a paper tiger of its armed forces. President Nicolas Madu...
Venezuela to hold military drills in response to U.S. 'hostile' actions
Sep 18, 2025 (UPI)
Padrino announced Wednesday during a televised meeting with the high command of the Venezuelan armed forces that about 22 aircraft and some 30 vessels -- includ...
S.Africa top court hears landmark case on Shell offshore exploration
Sep 16, 2025 (AFP)
The Constitutional court hearing marks the last steps in a years-long legal battle against Shell's plans to conduct seismic surveys off the country's south-east...
Venezuela's Maduro vows to defend against US 'aggression'
Sep 15, 2025 (AFP)
Referring to the US naval build-up in the Caribbean and the recent deadly attack on an alleged Venezuelan drug boat, Maduro told reporters that Caracas would "f...
Europe stumped by Trump demands over Russia sanctions
Sep 15, 2025 (AFP)
But Trump's requests do not seem feasible, and the EU notes that it has already hammered the Kremlin with sanctions. Meanwhile, diplomats fear it could be a plo...
Iraq signs $1bn investment deals with World Bank's IFC
Sep 13, 2025 (AFP)
At a ceremony marking two decades of the International Finance Corporation's presence in Iraq, Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani announced the new contract...
China chides 'economic pressure' over Trump threat of Russian oil tariffs
Sep 10, 2025 (AFP)
On Tuesday, in talks between US and European Union officials, Trump suggested he was willing to broaden tariffs on Russian oil buyers such as China and India --...
Israeli strikes shake quiet Qatar, strain US ties
Sep 10, 2025 (AFP)
"Honestly no one expected it to be an explosion (from an attack) here. I thought construction workers had dropped something heavy," the 27-year-old Qatari stude...
Maduro deploys 25,000 troops to Venezuela borders
Sep 08, 2025 (AFP)
In a message Sunday night on social media Maduro said he had deployed "25,000 men and women from our glorious National Bolivarian Armed Forces" to the frontier ...
Global trade drives one third of rising methane emissions
Sep 07, 2025 (SPX)
The analysis identifies South-South trade as a key driver, with Asia and the Pacific emerging as the largest emitters due to rapid industrial growth and populat...
Transparent WO3 film breakthrough boosts hydrogen production efficiency
Sep 07, 2025 (SPX)
The team engineered the WO3 film directly onto a conductive fluorine-doped tin oxide (FTO) substrate using a surfactant-template process with in situ template-c...
Venezuela's Maduro urges dialogue after Trump threat
Sep 06, 2025 (AFP)
Tensions between the two countries soared in recent days after the Pentagon accused Venezuela of buzzing its ships in the Caribbean following a deadly US strike...
States receive $86 million to enhance pipeline safety
Sep 04, 2025 (UPI)
"Safety is the number one priority of the Department of Transportation," Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said in a statement. "The grants announced today wi...
Taiwan says China illegally deploying oil rigs in its waters
Sep 03, 2025 (AFP)
President Lai Ching-te's office made the remarks after a report published by a US think tank said Chinese state oil giant CNOOC had 12 structures in Taiwan's cl...
Russia, China move closer to building new gas pipeline
Sep 02, 2025 (AFP)
The memorandum of understanding to build the Power of Siberia 2 pipeline was signed during a visit to China by Russian President Vladimir Putin. Although the mo...
China achieves world first in offshore heavy oil thermal recovery
Sep 01, 2025 (SPX)
Heavy oil, characterized by high viscosity, density, and poor flow, has long posed significant extraction challenges. Offshore recovery adds further complexity ...
Norway, environmentalists back in court over oil field permits
Aug 28, 2025 (AFP)
In January 2024, the Oslo district court ruled that the permits awarded for three North Sea fields were invalid because the CO2 emissions generated by the futur...
Beijing rejects Japan protest over gas field in East China Sea
Aug 26, 2025 (AFP)
Tokyo's foreign ministry said late Monday it had confirmed that Beijing was setting up drilling rigs in the area -- where the two countries' exclusive economic ...
Breakthrough oxide enables solar heat hydrogen production at record speed
Aug 26, 2025 (SPX)
Led by Professor Hyungyu Jin and Dr. Dongkyu Lee of POSTECH with Professor In-Ho Jung and Dr. Joonhyun Nam of SNU, the researchers discovered (MgMnCo)0.65Fe0.35...
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