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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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 Paris, France (SPX) Mar 06, 2018 
Framatome, Bureau Veritas and Doosan Babcock signed an Agreement creating EQUALLE, an alliance targeted at supporting the challenge of nuclear Equipment Qualification for the benefit of new build projects and in-service reactors in the United Kingdom. The qualification of nuclear safety equipment ensures its operability in normal and accidental conditions in compliance with the safety case.
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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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 Tokyo (AFP) March 5, 2018 
Top Japanese carmakers said on Monday they were teaming up to nearly double the amount of hydrogen stations in Japan, as the car-mad country seeks to head off competition from China and Germany.
Toyota, Nissan and Honda formed a joint venture with major gas and energy companies, including French industrial gases company Air Liquide, to build 80 new hydrogen stations in the next four years, t ... more |
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 Baghdad (AFP) March 7, 2018 
The head of the International Committee of the Red Cross warned Iraq on Wednesday of resentment among relatives of detainees suspected of fighting for the Islamic State group.
The ICRC's Peter Maurer called for reconciliation in the country three months after the Iraqi government declared victory over the IS jihadists.
"This is a critical moment in Iraq and Iraqi politics," Maurer told a ... more |
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 Seoul (AFP) March 8, 2018 
South Korea will investigate allegations that ousted president Park Geun-hye planned to send military troops to quash the candle-lit protests that culminated in her impeachment last year, the defence ministry said Thursday.
Activist group the Centre for Military Human Rights Korea (CMHRK), citing multiple leaks, said top military leaders had studied plans to crack down on demonstrators calli ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) March 7, 2018  China is set to pass its first constitutional amendments in 14 years this weekend, but at Wednesday's public discussion on the changes, delegates seemed more interested in talking about beef noodles and taking naps.
No one expected dissent as legislators from the northwest provinces of Gansu and Qinghai gathered in Beijing's cavernous Great Hall of the People Wednesday to deliberate changes ... more |
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 Kinshasa (AFP) March 7, 2018  Eighteen employees of a gorilla sanctuary in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have been abducted by a militia group, sources said on Wednesday.
An official with an NGO said the abduction took place on Monday in the area of Nzovu, which lies in the huge Kahuzi-Biega National Park, and an armed group called the Mai-Mai Raia Mutomboki was responsible.
The victims comprise nine administr ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Mar 7, 2018 
The U.S. military sent F-35B Lightning II aircraft this week to the East China Sea for the fighter's first operational deployment with a Marine Expeditionary Unit.
A detachment of the aircraft deployed with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit landed Monday on the USS Wasp, an amphibious assault ship, according to the U.S. Marines. The expeditionary unit will patrol the Indo-Pacific regio ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) March 8, 2018 
President Donald Trump's team played down talk of a trade war Wednesday as it fought to limit a financial market sell-off, promising a quick decision on contentious tariffs that prompted a popular economic advisor to the president to quit.
Administration big guns Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin rushed to the cameras to calm market jitters over proposed ste ... more |
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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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 Brussels (AFP) March 6, 2018 
Belgium began Monday to make iodine pills available free to its 11 million people in case of an accident at its ageing nuclear plants but said there was no "specific risk."
The government also launched a website in the country's official languages French, Dutch and German to tell people what to do in an emergency as it began implementing plans announced two years ago.
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