Arbil, Iraq (AFP) Sept 5, 2011 - North Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region on Monday condemned a draft oil and gas law that was approved by the central government and called on parliament to reject it.
Amman (AFP) Sept 11, 2011 - Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region halted crude exports on Sunday, nearly a week after it condemned a new oil and gas law approved by the central government, Oil Minister Abdelkarim al-Luaybi said.
Colombo (AFP) Sept 9, 2020 - A stricken oil tanker off Sri Lanka that has been on fire since last week has left a kilometre-long (0.6 mile) slick across the Indian Ocean, the country's navy said Wednesday, sparking fears of an environmental disaster.
Juba (AFP) Sept 27, 2017 - President Salva Kiir on Wednesday ordered South Sudanese police to cooperate with a new 4,000-strong United Nations force being deployed in the capital Juba.
Berlin (AFP) Sept 20, 2019 - German Chancellor Angela Merkel's government Friday announced a sweeping climate policy package worth at least 100 billion euros ($110 billion euros) by 2030.
Amman (AFP) Sept 4, 2019 - Jordan said it received its first shipment Wednesday of Iraqi oil, interrupted for five years by the Islamic State group's control of swathes of Iraq between 2014 and 2017.
Amman (AFP) Sept 19, 2013 - Jordan and China have inked a memorandum of understanding to build a $2.5 billion (1.8 billion euros) oil shale-fired power plant in the kingdom to produce 900 megawatts of electricity, media said Thursday.
London (AFP) Sept 20, 2021 - Forcing wealthy nations to honour their UN climate fund pledges this week will be a stretch, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson admitted ahead of a Monday meeting with global leaders aiming to do just that.
Taipei (AFP) Sept 14, 2010 - A Taiwanese boat with anti-Japan protesters heading for a group of disputed islands in the East China Sea was forced to turn back Tuesday by Japanese patrol boats, activists and officials said.
Beijing (AFP) Sept 24, 2010 - China is investigating four Japanese nationals over claims they filmed sensitive military installations, state media said Thursday, in an escalation of a damaging row between the two countries.
Tokyo (AFP) Sept 16, 2015 - Japan said Wednesday it has lodged a protest after uncovering evidence that China has started extracting gas in a disputed area near their border in the East China Sea.
Tokyo (AFP) Sept 15, 2011 - Japan plans to build a floating wind farm near the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant as part of the country's disaster reconstruction effort, a government official said Thursday.
Tokyo (AFP) Sept 20, 2009 - Japan's new government led by Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama plans to introduce a mandatory cap-and-trade greenhouse gas emissions system as early as 2011, a report said Sunday.
Tokyo (AFP) Sept 13, 2010 - Japan on Monday released the 14 crew of a Chinese fishing trawler that collided with two Japanese coastguard vessels in disputed waters last week, but kept its captain in detention.
Tokyo (AFP) Sept 27, 2010 - Japan demanded Monday that China pull back two fisheries patrol boats from near a disputed island chain that is at the centre of the worst diplomatic row in years between the Asian giants.
Tokyo (AFP) Sept 19, 2012 - Resource-hungry Japan called Wednesday for a revamp of the world's LNG market, as it ramps up its hunt for new sources of energy for a country badly scarred by the Fukushima disaster.
