Caracas (AFP) Sept 12, 2018 - Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro departed Wednesday for China in search of agreements to bolster the oil-exporting country's collapsing economy.
Caracas (AFP) Sept 3, 2015 - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro met in Beijing Thursday with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss ways to stabilize oil prices, the government news agency AVN reported.
Caracas (AFP) Sept 8, 2025 - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said he had deployed 25,000 troops along the Caribbean coast and the border with Colombia amid soaring tensions with US President Donald Trump.
Paris (AFP) Sept 22, 2020 - French President Emmanuel Macron will hold telephone talks with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday for the first time since tensions flared over Turkey's behaviour in the eastern Mediterranean, the Elysee Palace said.
Baghdad (AFP) Sept 2, 2020 - French President Emmanuel Macron is set to make his first official visit to Iraq Wednesday, where he hopes to help Baghdad reassert its sovereignty despite simmering US-Iran tensions.
Paris (AFP) Sept 25, 2023 - President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday France will triple its heat pump production over the next four years as part of a government climate plan.
Monaco (AFP) Sept 26, 2010 - Luxury yachts that whisk their millionaire owners or charter guests to the world's top beauty spots, guzzling gallons of fuel on the way, have long scraped the bottom of the green league tables.
Paris (AFP) Sept 17, 2022 - France's famed Louvre and Versailles museums will turn off their lights earlier as a symbolic measure to remind the public of the energy crisis sparked by the Ukraine war, the culture minister said on Saturday.
Washington (AFP) Sept 13, 2010 - BP began drilling Monday the final stretch of a relief well that will allow engineers to permanently seal its disastrous Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico.
Baku (AFP) Sept 28, 2012 - A lightning strike that damaged a key power station in Azerbaijan sparked a mass power cut Friday in Baku and other parts of the country, halting the capital's metro and causing traffic chaos, officials said.
Beijing (AFP) Sept 13, 2011 - The National Transitional Council has agreed to uphold agreements with China made before the fall of Moamer Kadhafi, Beijing said Tuesday, a day after recognising the NTC as Libya's government.
Madison WI (SPX) Sep 29, 201 - Engineering researchers from Tufts University, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Harvard University have demonstrated the low-temperature efficacy of an atomically dispersed platinum catalyst, which could be suitable for on-board hydrogen production in fuel-cell-powered vehicles of the future.
Tokyo (AFP) Sept 24, 2013 - Japan and Canada will hold talks Tuesday on Canadian shale gas exports to Japan, reports said, as the resource-poor Asian country looks to diversify its sources of fuel.
London (AFP) Sept 25, 2013 - A prominent Green Party lawmaker was charged Wednesday following her arrest last month at a British anti-fracking protest.
Caracas (AFP) Sept 13, 2020 - Oil has washed up to Venezuela's west coast after a leak in a pipeline that takes crude to the country's main refinery, national oil company PDVSA said on Saturday.
Kuwait City (AFP) Sept 10, 2009 - Kuwait plans to double its power production capacity to more than 20,000 megawatts over the next five years, Prime Minister Sheikh Nasser Mohammad al-Ahmad al-Sabah said on Thursday.
