Athens (AFP) Sept 14, 2024 - An operation to tow an abandoned tanker struck by Yemen's Huthi rebels in August, threatening environmental disaster, began Saturday and is ongoing, a Greek defence ministry source told AFP.
Juba (AFP) Sept 9, 2019 - South Sudan's exiled rebel leader Riek Machar arrived in Juba on Monday for the first time in a year and held rare talks with President Salva Kiir as the rivals try to salvage a stalled peace agreement.
Seoul (AFP) Sept 16, 2011 - South Korean news media on Friday blasted energy authorities over the country's worst-ever power cuts, with one newspaper calling them a man-made disaster.
Seoul (AFP) Sept 14, 2007 - South Korea on Friday began operating a nuclear fusion test reactor using an advanced superconducting magnetic system, as part of an international search for a limitless clean energy source.
Seoul (AFP) Sept 18, 2011 - A top South Korean official on Sunday blamed hot weather and inaccurate reports by public officials for the nation's worst-ever blackout and vowed to punish those responsible.
Johannesburg (AFP) Sept 21, 2010 - South African petrochemical giant Sasol on Tuesday flew the world's first passenger aircraft using the company's own developed and internationally approved fully synthetic jet fuel.
Johannesburg (AFP) Sept 1, 2022 - A South African court on Thursday upheld a ban imposed on energy giant Shell from using seismic waves to explore for oil and gas off the Indian Ocean coast.
Johannesburg (AFP) Sept 16, 2025 - South Africa's top court on Tuesday heard arguments in a landmark case pitting environmentalists and coastal communities against energy giant Shell's oil and gas exploration off the Indian Ocean coast.
Pretoria (AFP) Sept 11, 2012 - South Africa will process applications for shale gas exploration but hold off on controversial fracking drilling while new rules are drafted, the mines minister said Tuesday.
Johannesburg (AFP) Sept 21, 2021 - South Africa's energy regulator on Tuesday approved generating licenses for three controversial floating power plants, stoking environmental concerns as Africa's most industrialised nation grapples with electricity shortages.
Johannesburg (AFP) Sept 7, 2012 - South Africa on Friday said it was lifting a freeze on shale gas exploration in a move condemned by environmentalists who fear that controversial fracking will pollute scarce water sources.
Johannesburg (AFP) Sept 15, 2009 - South Africa will not sign any deal that would compromise the country's economic development chances at the upcoming climate change conference in Copenhagen, the environment minister said Tuesday.
Brussels (AFP) Sept 9, 2008 - Russia's decision to send warships to the Caribbean is not just a riposte to US navy manoeuvres in the Black Sea, but a sign of Moscow's determination to contest American influence, say analysts.
Vladivostok, Russia (AFP) Sept 5, 2019 - Russia's Novatek on Thursday announced the launch of a major liquefied natural gas project in the Arctic with Chinese, French and Japanese partners.
Moscow (AFP) Sept 27, 2016 - Russian investigative journalist Grigory Pasko, who was jailed for espionage for exposing radioactive pollution by the navy, said Tuesday he was hit on the head by unidentified attackers in Siberia.
Saint Petersburg (AFP) Sept 5, 2017 - Russian environmentalists on Tuesday said the planned Nord Stream 2 pipeline that will funnel Russian gas to Europe threatens a coastal Baltic refuge that is home to rare animals and birds.
