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.
Kuwait City (AFP) Sept 14, 2014 - The National Bank of Kuwait's investment arm has been selected as exclusive financing adviser for a $12-billion clean fuel refineries project, the bank said in a statement on Sunday.
Al Dhafra Air Base, UAE (AFP) Sept 1, 2020 - White House advisor Jared Kushner visited a UAE air base Tuesday where the US operates F-35 fighter jets coveted by Abu Dhabi - the thorniest issue in the Emirates' newly established ties with Israel.
Arbil, Iraq (AFP) Sept 1, 2012 - Iraqi Kurdistan will export oil via federal pipelines until September 15, an official said on Saturday, extending a one-month confidence-building measure amid a row with the central government in Baghdad.
