Rome (AFP) Sept 26, 2017 - Libyan military strongman Khalifa Haftar met Italy's defence minister and security chiefs in Rome Tuesday, bolstering his stature as a key player in international efforts to stabilise his troubled country.
Colombo (AFP) Sept 12, 2020 - Sri Lankan military divers fixed a fuel leak from the engine of a fire-damaged oil tanker off the island's east coast, the navy said Saturday, in a salvage operation after the huge week-long blaze.
Bad Kissingen, Germany (AFP) Sept 19, 2019 - German farmer Edgar Thomas already has two towering pylons spoiling the view of the picturesque rolling hills around his land, and he's exasperated that his area is being asked to find room for more.
Madrid (AFP) Sept 28, 2010 - Spain's economic crisis is sucking the air out of the windmill business.
Madrid (AFP) Sept 14, 2010 - Spain's Gamesa, one of the world's top wind turbine manufacturers, said Tuesday it would triple its total investment in China by 2012 to meet rising demand for clean energy there.
Madrid (AFP) Sept 27, 2011 - Shares in Spain's Gamesa, one of the world's top wind turbine makers, closed sharply higher Tuesday after it announced a new contract with a Chinese firm that is part of a surge in clear energy investments in China.
Madrid (AFP) Sept 29, 2015 - Spain's state prosecutor on Tuesday asked the Supreme Court to overturn a lower court's decision to acquit three men over the 2002 Prestige tanker spill, one of Europe's worst environmental disasters.
Madrid (AFP) Sept 20, 2010 - Spain's government Monday approved the construction of the country's largest biomass plant, the renewable energy group Ence announced Monday.
New York (AFP) Sept 20, 2022 - Germany, China, Spain and the UK are leading the world's richest nations in the push towards renewable energy, a new report said Tuesday.
New York (AFP) Sept 20, 2022 - A commercial plane photoshopped with the tail of a shark, hashtags that misleadingly evoke sustainability, tokenistic use of minorities to distract and to signal virtue: a Harvard report published Tuesday highlights rampant greenwashing by leading companies on social media.
Tokyo (AFP) Sept 19, 2010 - A dispute between Beijing and Tokyo, sparked by Japan's arrest of a Chinese skipper in disputed waters almost two weeks ago, has turned into the worst row in years between Asia's two biggest economies.
United Nations (AFP) Sept 23, 2019 - Sixty-six countries have signaled their intent to achieve net zero carbon dioxide emissions by 2050, the United Nations said Monday, seen as a vital goal in preventing catastrophic longer term climate change.
Baghdad (AFP) Sept 14, 2019 - Iraq on Saturday signed a $1.3 billion deal with German industrial conglomerate Siemens and Egypt's Orascom Construction to rebuild a major power plant complex in the ravaged city of Baiji, north of Baghdad.
Wellington (AFP) Sept 6, 2012 - The Filipino captain of the ship that caused New Zealand's worst maritime environmental disaster has issued a public apology for the catastrophe and for trying to cover up his role.
The Hague (AFP) Sept 21, 2012 - Royal Dutch Shell counter-attacked against Greenpeace on Friday, asking a judge to ban the group protesting near any of its property, with a million-euro fine as the cost of flouting the ruling.
London (AFP) Sept 28, 2015 - Anglo-Dutch energy giant Royal Dutch Shell said Monday it had scrapped its controversial offshore exploration in Alaska after failing to find sufficient quantities of oil and gas.
