Nicosia (AFP) Sept 12, 2020 - US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called on Turkey to cease tension-raising activities in the eastern Mediterranean during a visit to Cyprus Saturday, urging all sides to back diplomacy.
Athens (AFP) Sept 12, 2020 - Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Saturday announced a robust arms purchase programme and an overhaul of the country's military amid rising tension with Turkey in the eastern Mediterranean.
Nicosia (AFP) Sept 12, 2020 - Cyprus has condemned a Turkish naval exercise off the divided island's coast as illegal, ahead of a visit by top US diplomat Mike Pompeo to discuss heightened tensions in the Mediterranean.
Colombo (AFP) Sept 12, 2020 - Sri Lankan military divers fixed a fuel leak from the engine of a fire-damaged oil tanker off the island's east coast, the navy said Saturday, in a salvage operation after the huge week-long blaze.
London (AFP) Sept 11, 2020 - Britain on Friday announced a 23.8 million pounds ($30.5 million, 25.7 million euros) investment to triple the size of its base in an Omani port close to the sensitive waters of the Gulf.
Stockholm (AFP) Sept 11, 2020 - Activists from Greenpeace said on Friday they were blockading an oil refinery in western Sweden as a protest against a planned expansion of the facility.
Paris, France (SPX) Sep 11, 2020 - ENGIE and ArianeGroup have just announced the signing of a cooperation agreement in the field of renewable liquid hydrogen to speed up the decarbonisation of heavy-duty and longdistance transportati
Huntsville AL (SPX) Sep 11, 2020 - Fusion propulsion research to enable rapid deep space travel has landed a professor at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of the University of Alabama System, a $143,000 inaugural
Tehran (AFP) Sept 10, 2020 - The Iranian navy began a three-day exercise in the Sea of Oman near the strategic Strait of Hormuz on Thursday, deploying an array of warships, drones and missiles.
Paris (AFP) Sept 10, 2020 - A multi-national plan to exploit oil in east Africa threatens 12,000 familes and fragile ecosystems, international charity groups warned Thursday
Rome (AFP) Sept 10, 2020 - German and Italian warships intercepted an oil tanker Thursday carrying a load of jet fuel to Libya in a suspected breach of an arms embargo against the north African country.
Daegu, South Korea (SPX) Sep 10, 2020 - The escalating carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and the consequent acceleration of climate change are alarming, and it has proven challenging to find feasible ways to actively reduce the concentration
Cairo (AFP) Sept 9, 2020 - Sudan's government and rebel forces have agreed a landmark deal aimed at ending decades of war in which hundreds of thousands of people have been killed.
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.
College Station TX (SPX) Sep 09, 2020 - In a new study, researchers at Texas A and M University have described their novel plant-based energy storage device that could charge even electric cars within a few minutes in the near future. Fur
San Luis Obispo CA (SPX) Sep 09, 2020 - As California aims to provide 60% of its energy from renewable sources by 2030 and 100% by 2045, a study from California Polytechnic State University provides some good news. Offshore winds along th
