Madrid (AFP) March 3, 2009 - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev wrapped up a visit Tuesday to Madrid by signing an energy cooperation pact and a deal to enable Spanish military equipment and staff to reach Afghanistan via Russia.
Hanover, Germany (AFP) March 3, 2009 - California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger kicked off the world's biggest high-tech fair Tuesday, telling executives to seize the economic crisis as a moment to shape up and go green.
Washington DC (SPX) Mar 03, 2009 - The New Fuels Alliance (NFA) is warning that California's efforts to reduce carbon emissions from gasoline may actually increase greenhouse gas emissions and worsen the state's dependence on dirty fossil fuels.
Caracas, Venezuela (UPI) Mar 3, 2009 - The Venezuelan economy contracted in 2009 under the weight of a political crisis triggered by power and water shortages and disenchantment with government policies against dissent, analysts said.
Buenos Aires (UPI) Mar 2, 2009 - Argentina is angling for a U.S. role in its Falklands oil dispute with Britain that will go beyond Washington sitting on the fence as the elder cousin to both Buenos Aires and London, analysts said Tuesday.
Kuala Lumpur (AFP) March 2, 2009 - Hopes of a biofuel bonanza for Southeast Asia, raised when sky-high oil prices made the search for alternative fuels a priority, have been shelved as global fortunes and crude prices nose-dive.
Hanover, Germany (AFP) March 2, 2009 - California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, guest of honour at the world's biggest high-tech fair, told crisis-hit executives Monday to stop their whining and invest in the future.
Brussels (UPI) Mar 2, 2009 - The European Union rolled out the red carpet for Ukraine's new President Viktor Yanukovych who made his first foreign trip to Brussels rather than Moscow.
Buenos Aires (UPI) Mar 1, 2009 - Argentina tightened its security noose around the Falkland Islands with a tough new warning to Australian oil explorer Billiton to stay out of the controversial hydrocarbon prospecting operations in the Falklands, which it claims are under British occupation.
Paris (AFP) March 1, 2009 - As world leaders scramble to buoy the global financial system, the economic crisis has quietly claimed yet another victim: Europe's nascent market for carbon pollution.
Paris (UPI) Mar 1, 2009 - Gaz de France Suez on Monday joined the Gazprom-dominated Nord Stream natural gas pipeline project, further diversifying the project's ownership structure.
New Delhi (UPI) Mar 1, 2009 - The Indian government proposed a coal tax Friday aimed at creating a fund for promoting clean energy.
Aboard Iraq Navy Patrol Boat 103, Northern Gulf (AFP) March 1, 2009 - As a grey speck appeared above the waves, Iraqi Captain Mithak realised it was too small and fast to be just another fishing boat, so he reached for the radio.
Berlin (AFP) March 1, 2009 - The world's biggest high-tech fair kicks off Tuesday hosting guest-of-honour Arnold Schwarzenegger and offering cutting-edge solutions promising to beat the economic crisis as well as climate change.
Beijing (AFP) Feb 28, 2009 - China and Japan Saturday played down a bitter territorial dispute and urged North Korea not to threaten regional peace in talks between their foreign ministers here, a Japanese official said.
Washington (UPI) Feb 27, 2009 - Iran's vast, largely untapped natural gas reserves are increasingly coming into the view of Brussels' bureaucrats, especially after the January Ukrainian-Russian gas disputes, which traumatized Europe to search for alternative sources in the Caspian basin.
