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  Washington (UPI) Apr 4, 2018 An oil tanker moving through the Red Sea suffered only minor damage after it was attacked by Houthi rebels in Yemen, the Saudi government said. Col. Turku al-Maliki, spokesman for the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen, said on Twitter that naval forces were able to thwart a major escalation after Houthi rebels targeted a Saudi oil tanker. Speaking through the official Saudi Press Agency, the spokesman said the attack was in international waters and a flagrant violation to maritime rules in th ... read more |
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NGO threatens Shell with lawsuit over climate 'destruction'The Hague (AFP) April 4, 2018 An environmental campaign group on Wednesday threatened to take Anglo-Dutch oil giant Royal Dutch Shell to court should it fail to comply with climate targets set out under the Paris agreement. ... more 
Saudi says oil unaffected by Yemen rebel attack on tankerRiyadh (AFP) April 4, 2018 Saudi Arabia on Wednesday shrugged off a Yemeni rebel missile attack on one of its oil tankers in the Red Sea saying it had zero impact on the kingdom's crude exports. ... more 
Fears of trade war send oil prices sharply lowerWashington (UPI) Apr 4, 2018 Fears of a trade war between the largest economies in the world, China and the United States, sent crude oil prices following stock futures lower on Wednesday. ... more 
'Significant' gas discovery made offshore NorwayWashington (UPI) Apr 4, 2018 New natural gas discoveries on the Norwegian continental shelf could hold "significant" quantities of reserves, a subsidiary of Austria's OMV said Wednesday. ... more |
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EPA says Obama-era fuel guidelines were politically chargedWashington (UPI) Apr 3, 2018 While a trade group representing the U.S. auto industry said a review of fuel standards was the right move, critics said it would hurt the average consumer. ... more 
U.S. gas prices up, and expected to keep risingWashington (UPI) Apr 3, 2018 Gas prices may continue to move higher in the United States as refineries start to shift to a summer-blend, which is more expensive to make, AAA reports. ... more 
Oil prices bounce back on signs of balanceWashington (UPI) Apr 3, 2018 After posting steep declines in the previous session, crude oil prices moved higher in Tuesday trading on signs the U.S. market surplus has evaporated. ... more
More than $1 billion on contracts awarded offshore NorwayWashington (UPI) Apr 3, 2018 More than $1.5 billion in contracts for drilling services were awarded to companies for work in Norwegian waters, energy major Statoil said. ... more 
Russia expects support for Nord Stream 2 from European partnersWashington (UPI) Apr 3, 2018 Even with some European countries lining up behind the project, getting approval for the Nord Stream 2 pipeline is a work in progress, Moscow said. ... more |
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Gas-rich Papua New Guinea still coping with earthquake damageWashington DC (UPI) Apr 02, 2018 More than a month after an earthquake crippled Papua New Guinea's gas potential, the World Food Program said a quarter million people still need aid. ... more  |
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Oil spill cleanup fire kills two in IndonesiaJakarta (AFP) March 31, 2018 At least two people died in a fire as Indonesian authorities tried to cleanup an oil spill off Borneo island Saturday, an official said. ... more 
Oil prices turn lower despite North American rig count declineWashington DC (UPI) Apr 02, 2018 Crude oil prices turned lower in a Monday trading muted by an extended Easter holiday as Middle East gains offset a dip in North American rig counts. ... more 
Iraqi oil exports increased in MarchWashington DC (UPI) Apr 02, 2018 Data show March exports from Iraq, one of OPEC's top producers, at an average of 3.4 million barrels of oil per day were slightly higher than the previous month. ... more 
U.S. strikes environmental bell with next offshore leaseWashington (UPI) Apr 2, 2018 Giving drillers the rights to reach nearly 50 billion barrels of oil in the Gulf of Mexico will come with a degree of responsibility, the U.S. government said. ... more 
Bahrain announces its largest oil discovery everWashington DC (UPI) Apr 02, 2018 The government of Bahrain said it made the largest discovery of oil ever made since the exploration in the kingdom started in the 1930s. ... more |
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 South Bend IN (SPX) Apr 05, 2018 
Researchers at the University of Notre Dame are developing a renewable energy approach for synthesizing ammonia, an essential component of fertilizers that support the world's food production needs. The Haber-Bosch process developed in the early 1900s for producing ammonia relies on non-renewable fossil fuels and has limited applications for only large, centralized chemical plants.
The new ... more |
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 Sheffield UK (SPX) Apr 05, 2018 
Scientists from the University of Sheffield have solved the structure of a photosynthetic protein to reveal how it converts near-infrared light into an electrical charge.
The new study gives a pioneering insight into the efficiency and limits of the life-giving process, photosynthesis.
Plants and algae use chlorophyll to absorb energy from the Sun to power photosynthesis at wavelengt ... more |
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 Gothenburg, Sweden (SPX) Mar 29, 2018 
The Evolution of Wind Power is the result of a cooperation between The Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) and renewable energy software company Greenbyte. The interactive map reveals the cumulative installed capacity per country, continent and the world between 1981-2018. Let's take a closer look at the figures and see what has happened in the past twelve months.
China continues its incredi ... more |
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 Paris, France (SPX) Apr 05, 2018 
AREVA has developed a cutting-edge technology for nuclear reactor vessel inspections that optimizes both the safety and reliability of operations. The automated tool, known as Lower Girth Weld Inspection Tool (LGWIT), allows plant personnel to remotely perform inspections through narrow gaps of the reactor vessel internals.
The tool's remote operation replaces the need for direct human int ... more |
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 Berkeley UK (SPX) Apr 03, 2018 
Scientists have directly measured the increasing greenhouse effect of methane at the Earth's surface for the first time. A research team from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) tracked a rise in the warming effect of methane - one of the most important greenhouse gases for the Earth's atmosphere - over a 10-year period at a DOE field observation ... more |
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 San Francisco (AFP) March 27, 2018 
US federal investigators said Tuesday they were examining a fatal crash last week involving a Tesla electric automobile in California.
The California Highway Patrol reported that a 38-year-old man died Friday after his 2017 Tesla Model X collided with a highway barrier near the town of Mountain View, according to The San Jose Mercury News.
The vehicle caught fire before two other approac ... more |
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 Baghdad (AFP) April 2, 2018  A Baghdad court on Monday sentenced six Turkish women to death and a seventh to life in prison for membership of the Islamic State jihadist group, a judicial source said.
The source told AFP that the women, all accompanied by small children in the court, had surrendered to Kurdish peshmerga fighters after having fled Tal Afar, one of the last IS bastions to fall to Iraqi security forces last ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) April 3, 2018 
China's foreign minister told his North Korean counterpart on Tuesday that Beijing appreciates Pyongyang's efforts to ease nuclear tensions ahead of planned summits between the isolated country's leader Kim Jong Un and the South Korean and US presidents.
North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho met China's chief diplomat Wang Yi in Beijing just a week after Kim made a surprise trip to the Ch ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) April 3, 2018  China's culture watchdog has slapped fines on websites that posted parodies of "Communist classics and heroes", as the authorities further restrict what people can say - or even laugh at - online.
Major video sites iQiyi and Sina were handed undisclosed fines for "distorting or mocking" classic works, the culture ministry said, less than two weeks after new rules were issued to ban online ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) April 3, 2018 
President Xi Jinping greeted Zimbabwean counterpart Emmerson Mnangagwa as an "old friend" of China on Tuesday as the African leader visited Beijing, which previously backed his ousted predecessor Robert Mugabe.
Mnangagwa, who received military training in China when he was a young liberation fighter in the 1960s, was met with a military honour guard at the Great Hall of the People on his fir ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) April 4, 2018 
The United States on Wednesday approved $4.7 billion in deals for American firms to sell jet fighters to Slovakia, military helicopters to Spain and armed drones to Britain.
All three countries are NATO members, and the sale of F-16 fighters to Slovakia will enable it to retire its Russian-built MiG-29s and build a fleet to work with its Western allies.
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 Geneva (AFP) March 29, 2018 
An international organisation that Donald Trump demeans, undermines and then embraces when it suits his interests: probably sounds familiar within NATO, or the UN.
Now it's time to add the World Trade Organization to the list.
The early signs of the US president's intentions towards the Geneva-based trade body all pointed towards hostility.
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 Washington (AFP) April 4, 2018 
Pentagon planners scrambled Wednesday to find ways to support President Donald Trump's surprise edict that he would send "the military" to guard America's southern border.
The commander-in-chief's seemingly off-the-cuff directive blindsided officials Tuesday, when Trump said the military would guard the frontier until "we can have a wall and proper security."
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 Washington (AFP) April 3, 2018 
Donald Trump's environment chief came under mounting criticism Tuesday, including from within his own Republican Party, over renting a lobbyist's apartment and other damaging revelations, but he appeared to have the president's backing.
Amid speculation that Scott Pruitt, head of the Environmental Protection Agency, could be the latest of Trump's cabinet members to get the axe, congressional ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) April 5, 2018  President Donald Trump's shock order to send National Guard troops to the frontier with Mexico Wednesday came after data showed that illegal immigration has sharply rebounded following a plunge in his first year in office.
Data on border apprehension for March released late Wednesday indicates undocumented immigrants are pouring into the country at the highest level in four years.
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