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  Kuwait City (AFP) Sept 9, 2018 Gulf Arab army chiefs, including Qatar's military commander, will meet with US Central Command officials for talks on defence cooperation this week, a Kuwaiti official said Sunday. Speaking on condition of anonymity as he was not authorised to brief the press, an official with Kuwait's defence ministry said army commanders of the Gulf states - including boycott-hit Qatar - would hold talks Monday in a scheduled meeting of the Gulf Cooperation Council Supreme Military Committee in Kuwait City. ... read more |
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Re-opened Iraqi railway a sign of progressFallujah, Iraq (AFP) Sept 10, 2018 The newly revived railway between Baghdad and Fallujah snakes across the western Iraqi desert, through a landscape of burned-out tanks, abandoned cars and collapsed buildings. ... more 
Oil prices down after Pompeo outlines plan to get nations off Iranian oilWashington (UPI) Sep 7, 2018 Speaking in India this week, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo shared plans to wean nations off Iranian oil before the U.S. reimposes sanctions on Iran in November. ... more 
Court scraps multibillion-dollar Ecuador damages against ChevronQuito (AFP) Sept 7, 2018 An appeals court in The Hague has cancelled $9.5 billion in damages handed down by an Ecuadoran court against American energy giant Chevron for causing oil pollution in the Amazon jungle, Quito said Friday. ... more 
Oil prices down, OPEC production at 10-month highWashington (UPI) Sep 6, 2018 Amid lingering fears the reimposition of U.S. sanctions on Iran could complicate the global oil market, OPEC nations reported a strong August in the latest S&P Global Platts survey. ... more |
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Oil markets up as Gulf Coast braces for GordonWashington (UPI) Sep 4, 2018 The oil and gas industry is cautiously watching Tropical Storm Gordon as the system approaches refineries and platforms along the northern Gulf Coast of the United States. ... more 
Iraq oil exports hit 2018 peak in AugustBaghdad (AFP) Sept 1, 2018 Iraq's oil exports for August hit their highest monthly figure this year, the oil ministry said Saturday, with nearly 112 million barrels of crude bringing $7.7 billion to the war-torn country's ailing economy. ... more 
PetroChina's profits double as oil prices soarShanghai (AFP) Aug 30, 2018 China's biggest oil producer PetroChina said Thursday its net profit more than doubled in the first half of the year as global crude prices soared. ... more
Crude oil rises on news of decline in U.S. inventoriesWashington (UPI) Aug 30, 2018 Crude oil futures moved upward on Thursday after news of a decline in U.S. oil inventories, and analysts' wait-and-see approach to Iranian threats to leave the 2015 nuclear deal. ... more 
Water pollution lays waste to Iraq's oil-rich southBasra, Iraq (AFP) Aug 31, 2018 Younes Selim clutches his stomach in pain at a hospital in southern Iraq, one of thousands to fall ill in a region flush with oil but desperately short of drinking water. ... more |
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Chinese airlines' profit hit by fuel costs, weak yuanShanghai (AFP) Aug 31, 2018 China's major airlines mostly saw their earnings battered in the first half of the year as a weaker Chinese yuan and higher fuel prices offset steadily rising passenger traffic. ... more  |
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Court blocks construction of Canada pipeline to PacificOttawa, Canada (AFP) Aug 30, 2018 A Canadian court on Thursday quashed the government's approval of the Trans Mountain pipeline to the Pacific, siding with indigenous people worried that increased tanker traffic will harm whales along the coast. ... more 
Alberta pulls out of carbon tax initiative after pipeline rulingMontreal (AFP) Aug 31, 2018 The Canadian province of Alberta announced Thursday it would pull out of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's flagship climate change initiative in protest against a court ruling against the expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline. ... more 
Labor Day weekend gas prices highest in four yearsWashington (UPI) Aug 31, 2018 U.S. gasoline prices, as well as demand, remain high for the Labor Day weekend, the U.S. Energy Information Administration reported on Friday. ... more
U.S. action on NAFTA, India's Iranian oil imports roils marketsWashington (UPI) Aug 31, 2018 As Canada rushes to join NAFTA negotiations, and India and the United States prepare to discuss Iranian oil imports, oil prices were down slightly heading into the Labor Day weekend in the United States. ... more 
Petronas wades into Gambian watersWashington (UPI) Aug 28, 2018 Malaysian energy company PETRONAS is funding 80 percent of the costs to drill into an emerging oil basin off the coast of Gambia, a project developer stated. ... more |
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 Sapporo, Japan (SPX) Sep 06, 2018 
Hokkaido University researchers have created an improved catalyst for the conversion of methane gas into syngas, a precursor for liquid fuels and fundamental chemicals.
Syngas, also known as synthesis gas, is a mixture made primarily of carbon monoxide and hydrogen and is used to manufacture polymers, pharmaceuticals, and synthetic petroleum. It is made by exposing methane to water vapor a ... more |
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 Houghton MI (SPX) Sep 06, 2018 
At the end of one of the hottest summers on record, as fights about how to power homes rage, renewable solar energy continues to present an option that does not significantly add greenhouse gases to the environment in exchange for lighting and cooling our homes. And it's just been given another edge through material science.
In a new study published in Energies, researchers have found a wa ... more |
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 Freiburg, Germany (SPX) Sep 06, 2018 
Wind power is an important pillar in Germany's energy policy turnaround: According to the German government, the resource should cover 65 percent of German electricity needs by 2030, along with solar, hydropower and biomass. In a recent study, Dr. Christopher Jung and Dr. Dirk Schindler from the University of Freiburg show that it will be possible to cover 40 percent of the current electricity c ... more |
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 Vienna (AFP) Sept 10, 2018 
The UN's nuclear agency on Monday said global capacity for electricity generation through nuclear power may be shrinking over the coming decades.
In a new report the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said that the sector would face challenges as "ageing reactors are retired and the industry struggles with reduced competitiveness".
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 Bangkok (AFP) Sept 7, 2018 
Island nations like Fiji and the Maldives are almost at the "point of no return" because of rising sea levels, a leading climate negotiator warned Friday.
As well as losing land and infrastructure to encroaching oceans as the planet heats up, many islands are also facing extreme flooding and damage from tropical storms, warned Amjad Abdulla, head negotiator for the Alliance of Small Island S ... more |
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 Kolbsheim, France (AFP) Sept 10, 2018 
French police used tear gas early Monday to disperse around 200 protesters blocking the construction of a ring road near the eastern city of Strasbourg, an AFP journalist said.
Regional authorities gave the green light in August to the plan for the construction of the 24-kilometre (15-mile) stretch of motorway.
But critics say it will destroy farmland and threaten endangered species incl ... more |
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 Basra, Iraq (AFP) Sept 7, 2018 
Three mortar shells were fired into Baghdad's green zone early Friday as a curfew was imposed in the southern Iraqi city of Basra after a fresh outbreak of violent protests over poor public services left one person dead and 35 injured.
The rare assault by unidentified attackers on the heavily-fortified green zone, which houses Iraqi government officials and the US Embassy, came "without any ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Sep 06, 2018 
The Soviet rocketry program, which would eventually help Moscow achieve strategic parity with the United States and send human beings into space, had its origins in a design reverse-engineered from a captured German V-2.
Russian Space Systems, a subsidiary of Roscosmos, has published a unique and detailed photo album detailing the elements that comprised the R-1, a short-range ballistic mi ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Sept 4, 2018 
Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing said Tuesday it would halt most late-night ride services for a week as it tries to reassure the public following the rape and murder of a passenger.
The company has been slammed by passengers and regulators, including China's transport ministry, after a 20-year-old passenger was raped and murdered by her driver in the eastern city of Wenzhou last month ... more |
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 Nairobi (AFP) Sept 6, 2018 
Kenya has arrested a Chinese businessman after a video of him making a string of racist remarks was widely shared on social media, the government said Thursday.
The Chinese national, identified as Liu Jiaqi, has been arrested and is being processed for deportation, said Kenya's immigration department.
"His work permit has been cancelled and (he) will be deported on racism grounds," the i ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Sep 5, 2018 
Lockheed Marti has received an $47.5 million contract for repair and overhaul of the B-2 digital countermeasure receiver.
Work on the contract, announced Tuesday by the Department of Defense, will be performed in Oswego, N.Y., and is expected to be completed August 2023. Air Force capital funds will be obligated on the basis of individual orders.
The B-2 Spirit long-range heavy s ... more |
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 Santa Barbara CA (SPX) Sep 07, 2018 
If we proactively implement effective fisheries management and limit global temperature rise, the world's oceans still have the potential to be significantly more plentiful in the future than today, despite climate change. This finding is among several that appear in a first-of-its kind study, "Improved fisheries management could offset many negative effects of climate change," that appears in t ... more |
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 New Delhi (AFP) Sept 6, 2018  Top Indian and US officials on Thursday touted deepening ties that will see greater cooperation between the two countries' militaries - and will likely result in India buying more American arms.
The US has gone to great lengths to forge a closer bond with India as Washington seeks partners to push back against China's economic and military rise across the region.
As an example, Indian D ... more |
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 Begur, Spain (AFP) Sept 10, 2018 
Sandwiched between the crystalline blue sea and green pine trees lies Aiguafreda, one of Spain's last largely unspoiled Mediterranean coves, which is threatened by a new building frenzy.
From Catalonia to the Balearic Islands numerous building projects which came to a halt during Spain's 2008 economic crisis have been restarted as growth returns, raising fears among green groups of a new "co ... more |
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 McLean VA (SPX) Sep 06, 2018 
During a disaster, whether natural or man-made, restoring and maintaining communications is critical. Recent research and guidance issued by the Satellite Industry Association (SIA) reflects the importance of incorporating satellite services in an emergency response plan to facilitate communications before, during, and after a disaster.
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