Dubai (AFP) Aug 13, 2020 - Iranian forces boarded a tanker in international waters in the Gulf of Oman, using a helicopter and two ships to take over the vessel for several hours, US officials said.
Paris (AFP) Aug 13, 2020 - Tensions between France and Turkey increased on Thursday as Paris announced it was temporarily reinforcing its military presence in the eastern Mediterranean, where Ankara is quarrelling with Greece over gas reserves.
Juba (AFP) Aug 12, 2020 - Clashes between soldiers and civilians during a disarmament exercise in the central South Sudanese town of Tonj have left 127 dead, the army spokesman said Wednesday.
Paris (AFP) Aug 12, 2020 - Wind and solar produced a record 10 percent of global electricity in the first half of 2020 as the world's coal plant fleet ran at less than half its capacity, analysis published Thursday showed.
Washington DC (UPI) Aug 12, 2020 - Chemists at Washington University in St. Louis have developed a method for converting red bricks, the ubiquitous building material, into smart bricks that can be charged and store energy like a battery.
Athens (AFP) Aug 10, 2020 - Greece on Monday accused Turkey of threatening peace in the eastern Mediterranean and called a military meeting after Ankara resumed searching for oil and gas near a Greek island.
Brussels (AFP) Aug 9, 2020 - Turkey's resumed search for oil and gas in the eastern Mediterranean is extremely worrying, the EU said Sunday after Greece and Egypt set up an exclusive economic zone in the region.
Khartoum (AFP) Aug 7, 2020 - Sudanese troops and civilians were killed in a clashes with a rebel group in the country's south, an army statement said Friday, without specifying the number of casualties.
Washington DC (UPI) Aug 07, 2020 - A defense cooperation agreement between France and Cyprus, three years in the making, is now in force, the Cypriot government announced this week.
Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany (SPX) Aug 07, 2020 - Emission-free flight is a central goal of civil aviation. Emission-free air transport could be achieved in the long term by converting hydrogen into electricity. This would enable the environment-fr
Sulaimaniyah, Iraq (AFP) Aug 5, 2020 - In Iraq's Kurdistan region and at the country's Muslim Shiite holy sites, trading US dollars for rials from Iran was once big business.
Paris (AFP) Aug 5, 2020 - With oil prices blasted by a double blow of oversupply and demand throttled by the coronavirus crisis, some industry giants are eyeing less polluting investments as bets on a less hydrocarbon-heavy future.
Rome (AFP) Aug 5, 2020 - Italy's defence ministry said on Wednesday it would strengthen cooperation with Libya, citing a willingness for improved relations with the war-torn country's UN-recognised government.
London (AFP) Aug 4, 2020 - BP plunged into a quarterly net loss of almost $16.85 billion as the coronavirus pandemic ravaged oil demand and prices, triggering huge asset writedowns, the British energy giant announced Tuesday.
Halle, Germany (SPX) Aug 03, 2020 - In future, paraffin wax could help to make underground thermal storage units more durable. Such systems are used, for example, to store solar energy over a longer period of time. In a new study, geo
University Park PA (SPX) Aug 03, 2020 - The possibility of achieving room temperature superconductivity took a tiny step forward with a recent discovery by a team of Penn State physicists and materials scientists. The surprising dis
