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US to expel a dozen Saudi trainees after base attack probe: media
Jan 12, 2020 (AFP)
In December, Mohammed Alshamrani, who was in the United States as part of a Saudi military training program, opened fire in a classroom at the Pensacola Naval A...
Brazil's govt to propose oil exploration on indigenous land: media
Jan 11, 2020 (AFP)
Opening up protected native territory was a key campaign pledge for President Jair Bolsonaro, but activists blame economic activity for an uptick in violence an...
Pentagon: 'aggressive' Russian naval ship nearly caused Arabian Sea collision
Jan 10, 2020 (AFP)
The Russian ship ignored collision warning blasts from the USS Farragut and came extremely close before turning away, narrowly averting a crash on Thursday, sai...
Preparing for the hydrogen economy
Jan 10, 2020 (SPX)
Published in Science, the researchers found hydrogen accumulates at microstructures called dislocations and at the boundaries between the individual crystals th...
China opens oil and gas exploration to foreign firms
Jan 09, 2020 (AFP)
The Ministry of Natural Resources said foreign firms registered in China with net assets of not less than 300 million yuan ($43 million) will be eligible to obt...
Oil prices spike over 4.5% after Iran attacks
Jan 08, 2020 (AFP)
The benchmark WTI jumped as much as 4.53 percent to $65.54 a barrel before settling down slightly after Iran unleashed its first response to the US assassinatio...
Venezuela's reelected Guaido calls for protests
Jan 08, 2020 (AFP)
Guaido was barred from entering the assembly by the National Guard for around half an hour in dramatic and chaotic scenes, while a rival claimant to the speaker...
Barclays bank faces landmark investor vote on climate
Jan 08, 2020 (AFP)
A total of 11 institutional investors managing more than 130 billion pounds ($170.6 billion, 153 billion euros) have joined forces with more than 100 individual...
Europe warns Turkey over Libya intervention
Jan 07, 2020 (AFP)
Britain, France, Germany and Italy put out a statement calling for an end to fighting and "continuing outside interference" following emergency talks in Brussel...
Venezuela's Guaido sworn in as parliament speaker after stand-off
Jan 07, 2020 (AFP)
Guaido, who also claims to be acting president, leads the opposition to leftist President Nicolas Maduro, who is blamed for an acute economic crisis and accused...
Climate protesters mount gas rig in Scotland
Jan 06, 2020 (AFP)
Extinction Rebellion Scotland confirmed that three of its supporters boarded the Valaris 122 rig, but said later that they were forced down after around five ho...
Erdogan says Turkish soldiers have begun Libya deployment
Jan 05, 2020 (AFP)
"Our soldiers' duty there is coordination. They will develop the operation centre there. Our soldiers are gradually going right now," he told CNN Turk broadcast...
UK navy to escort British shipping in Strait of Hormuz
Jan 05, 2020 (AFP)
The Ministry of Defence said late Saturday that the frigate HMS Montrose and HMS Defender, a destroyer, "will resume accompaniments of UK-flagged commercial ves...
Saudi 'not consulted' over US strike that killed Iran general
Jan 05, 2020 (AFP)
Saudi Arabia faces a "heightened risk" of missile and drone attacks, the United States warned, after Tehran vowed "revenge" following the strike on Friday that ...
Nigerian communities struggle with devastating oil spills
Jan 03, 2020 (AFP)
Her smallholding at Ikarama-Okordia, a community in southern Nigeria's Bayelsa state, became unfit for growing crops after crude from a nearby Shell facility sp...
Oil prices soar as US kills top Iranian general, fans war fears
Jan 03, 2020 (AFP)
The head of Iran's Quds Force, Qasem Soleimani, was hit in an attack on Baghdad's international airport early Friday, according to Hashed al-Shaabi, a powerful ...
Oil prices surge after US strike kills Iranian general
Jan 03, 2020 (AFP)
The head of Iran's Quds Force, Qasem Soleimani, was hit in an attack on Baghdad's international airport early Friday, according to Hased, a powerful Iraqi param...
Gulf allies of US fear reprisals after Soleimani killing
Jan 03, 2020 (AFP)
Soleimani, the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' foreign operations arm, was killed Friday along with an Iraqi pro-Iran leader and their entourage ...
South Sudan president pardons prominent economist
Jan 03, 2020 (AFP)
Peter Biar Ajak was among 30 prisoners on a pardon list seen by AFP and dated January 1. A spokesman for the main prison in the capital Juba, where Biar was bei...
Iraq protesters lock down oil field, call strike
Dec 29, 2019 (AFP)
Several hundred people demanding jobs shut off access to the Nasiriyah field, 300 kilometres (190 miles) south of Baghdad, which produces 82,000 barrels of oil ...
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