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  Washington (UPI) Mar 6, 2018 Gasoline prices climbed last week in the United States after three weeks of decreases at the pump, according to an analysis. The national average of $2.53 for one gallon of regular gas is one cent more than last Monday with 25 states seeing increases, the motor club AAA reported Monday. About 63 percent of the drivers in the United States are paying $2.50 per gallon or less. "2018 has seen fluctuating crude oil prices, strong gasoline demand and new U.S. oil production records cre ... read more |
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Oil prices stable as U.S. production stands at all-time highWashington (UPI) Mar 6, 2018 U.S. crude oil prices were stable Tuesday as production in the nation is at an all-time high. ... more 
Stocks, oil prices lower on tariff hike jittersWashington (UPI) Mar 5, 2018 Stocks and crude oil prices opened lower Monday on fears of U.S. steel and aluminum tariffs proposed by President Donald Trump. ... more 
Turkey court rejects appeal to free Greek soldiers: reportAnkara, Turkey (AFP) March 5, 2018 A Turkish court on Monday rejected a request for the release of two Greek soldiers arrested last week for illegally entering the country, local media reported. ... more 
PNG quake leaves 67 dead as aftershocks rock homesSydney (AFP) March 5, 2018 At least 67 people were killed by an earthquake that devastated Papua New Guinea's remote highlands last week, the Red Cross said Monday, with thousands more homeless and without food and clean water. ... more |
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Sanctions still under consideration for Venezuela, U.S. saysWashington (UPI) Mar 2, 2018 All options are on the table, including sanctions, when considering tools to coerce Venezuela into following constitutional lines, the U.S. government said. ... more 
Turkey arrests two Greek soldiers 'on espionage charges'Ankara (AFP) March 2, 2018 A Turkish court on Friday placed two Greek soldiers under arrest on espionage charges after they illegally crossed into Turkey, state media reported, in a move that risks a new flaring of tensions between Ankara and Athens. ... more 
British energy demand strains from winter Storm Emma waneWashington (UPI) Mar 2, 2018 Demand strains from winter Storm Emma, which caused widespread problems across much of Europe, have eased somewhat, a British utility said Friday. ... more 
Man-made earthquake risk reduced if fracking is 895m from faultsDurham UK (SPX) Mar 02, 2018 The risk of man-made earthquakes due to fracking is greatly reduced if high-pressure fluid injection used to crack underground rocks is 895m away from faults in the Earth's crust, according to new r ... more 
New funding surfaces for offshore GambiaWashington (UPI) Feb 26, 2018 Up to $45 million in costs to drill a well off the Gambian coast is covered through a deal with Malaysian oil company PETRONAS, Australia's FAR Ltd. said. ... more |
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Winter Storm Emma strains British gas suppliesWashington (UPI) Mar 1, 2018 Severe weather striking the United Kingdom and parts of Europe means there's a deficit of natural gas on the market, a British utility said Thursday. ... more  |
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Spring gas prices could be the highest in two yearsWashington (UPI) Mar 1, 2018 On average, motorists in the United States may be paying the highest price for gasoline since the summer of 2015, motor club AAA reported Thursday. ... more 
OMV sells off its Pakistan upstream unitWashington (UPI) Mar 1, 2018 Austrian energy company OMV said it was leaving the Pakistani exploration and production sector behind with a $191 million divestment. ... more
U.S. supply builds send oil prices lower for second straight dayWashington (UPI) Mar 1, 2018 Supply-side strains resurfaced in the United States to help send crude oil prices on pace for a second day of heavy losses in Thursday trading. ... more
Sanctions force Exxon out of joint venture with a Russian oil companyWashington (UPI) Mar 1, 2018 U.S. and European sanctions on Russia meant Exxon Mobil had to leave a joint venture with Russian oil company Rosneft, the U.S. supermajor said in a filing. ... more 
Chinese oil baron hit by investigation: reportBeijing (AFP) March 1, 2018 Shares of two firms linked to Chinese conglomerate CEFC China Energy tumbled Thursday after a report that its high-flying chairman was under investigation. ... more |
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 Singapore (AFP) March 1, 2018 
Malaysia will press the European Union not to ban palm oil in biofuels during talks this week, the country's trade minister said Thursday, warning the move would hit the rural poor.
The European Parliament earlier this year voted in favour of a draft law on renewable energy that calls for the use of palm oil in biofuels to be banned from 2021, amid mounting worries about its impact on the en ... more |
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 Brooklyn MY (SPX) Mar 06, 2018 
Solar cells have great potential as a source of clean electrical energy, but so far they have not been cheap, light, and flexible enough for widespread use. Now a team of researchers led by Tandon Associate Professor Andre D. Taylor of the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department has found an innovative and promising way to improve solar cells and make their use in many applications more ... more |
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 Bristol UK (SPX) Mar 06, 2018 
Over 400 individuals raise an impressive 2.8m pounds in just two weeks to refinance the Mean Moor community wind farm in Cumbria. It's thought to be the first wind farm in the country to be transferred to community ownership from a commercial developer.
Thanks to support from Energy4All, and financing from ethical investment company, Thrive Renewables, three renewable Energy Co-operatives ... more |
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 Mandres-En-Barrois, France (AFP) March 3, 2018 
Police used tear gas during clashes with anti-nuclear protesters at a waste site in northeastern France on Saturday.
Demonstrators threw missiles at officers who have been blocking access to woodland at the Bure plant, halfway between Paris and Strasbourg, since a protest camp was dismantled 10 days ago.
Lejuc wood was selected by France's radioactive waste agency (ANDRA) for explorator ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Mar 5, 2018 
Scientists have developed new models to better understand how governments can work together to ensure global warming is limited to 1.5 degrees Celsius by 2100.
The different models consider a variety of political, socioeconomic and technological factors, including the impacts of economic inequality, energy demand and regional cooperation. The models considered five different so-called S ... more |
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 Frankfurt Am Main (AFP) March 2, 2018 
German computer chip maker Infineon said Friday it is teaming up with China's biggest car maker, SAIC Motor Corporation, to produce power modules for the Chinese electric car market, the world's biggest.
Infineon said in a statement it will hold a 49-percent stake in the new Shanghai-based company, SAIC Infineon Automotive Power Modules (SIAPM), which will make inverters - vital parts that ... more |
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 Baghdad (AFP) March 5, 2018  Iraq has ordered the seizure of assets that belonged to executed dictator Saddam Hussein and more than 4,200 officials from his former regime, an official statement said Monday.
The list of ex-regime bosses was drawn up by the Iraqi agency charged with tracking down former officials from Saddam's Baath Party, and includes their relatives.
Saddam's name appeared at the top of the list an ... more |
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 Vienna (AFP) March 5, 2018  The failure of the 2015 accord between Iran and world powers to restrict Tehran's nuclear programme would be a "great loss", the head of the UN's atomic watchdog said Monday.
International Atomic Energy Agency director general Yukiya Amano said Iran was, as of today, "implementing its nuclear-related commitments" under the deal.
US President Donald Trump has been a harsh critic of what h ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) March 5, 2018 
China signalled Monday it was hardening its stance on dissent in Taiwan and Hong Kong, where it faces growing frustration with the increasingly authoritarian government of President Xi Jinping.
In a report to the opening session of the annual National People's Congress in Beijing, Premier Li Keqiang warned China "will never tolerate any separatist schemes" in Taiwan, amid increasing tensions ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) March 5, 2018 
A propaganda video released by the Islamic State group that apparently shows the deadly ambush of US troops in Niger raised fresh questions Monday as to the nature of the mission and why the soldiers had been left so vulnerable.
The distressing video, distributed by a pro-IS news agency, includes graphic footage taken by a solder wearing a helmet camera.
It shows the chaos of the attac ... more |
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 Kuala Lumpur (AFP) March 3, 2018 
A new hunt for flight MH370 is expected to end by mid-June, Malaysian authorities said Saturday, as families marked four years since the disappearance of the plane amid renewed hope.
The Malaysia Airlines jet disappeared on March 8, 2014 with 239 people - mostly from China - on board, en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
No sign of the plane was found in a 120,000 square kilometre (4 ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) March 5, 2018 
China set its 2018 economic growth target at "around 6.5 percent" on Monday, in line with expectations but lower than the 6.9 percent increase registered last year.
The target, which is the same as last year, was presented by Premier Li Keqiang in a report for Monday's opening session of the annual National People's Congress, the rubber-stamp parliament.
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Mar 07, 2018 
Last week President Putin said, during his annual address to the Federal Assembly, that Russia has developed an invincible new cruise missile and warned that any use of nuclear weapons against Russia or its allies will be viewed as a nuclear attack and would trigger an immediate response from Moscow.
Sputnik discussed this with Dr. Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan, Senior Fellow and Head of th ... more |
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 Majalaya, Indonesia (AFP) March 2, 2018 
The scabies on Indonesian rice farmer Yusuf Supriyadi's limbs are a daily reminder of the costs of living next to the "world's dirtiest river".
Supriyadi depends on the Citarum's murky waters - a floating carpet of household rubbish, toxic chemicals and animal feces - to irrigate a small rice plot in West Java that sustains his family of six.
The farmer's rice yield is now down by two- ... more |
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 United Nations, United States (AFP) March 3, 2018 
The issues that come before the UN Security Council are the gravest to face any decision-making body - questions of war and peace, life and death.
But when world diplomats are building towards a weighty decision, almost any diplomatic tactic seems fair game, even sleight of hand.
All the envoys in endless daily meetings in the vast glass-walled tower on Turtle Bay, New York, would say ... more |
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