Tehran (AFP) July 5, 2020 - Iran has been negotiating a 25-year accord with China and the terms will be announced once a deal is struck, the foreign minister told a stormy session of parliament Sunday.
New York (AFP) July 5, 2020 - Duke Energy and Dominion Energy announced Sunday they had dropped plans to build a controversial natural gas pipeline through mountains in the eastern United States.
Tripoli (AFP) July 5, 2020 - Libya's UN-recognised government Sunday condemned overnight air raids against a recaptured strategic air base in the west of the country, alleging they were carried out by a foreign air force.
Tokyo (AFP) July 3, 2020 - Japan vowed Friday to study concrete ways of phasing out old, more carbon-emitting coal-fired power stations by 2030, following reports it plans to mothball around 100 ageing plants.
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jul 03, 2020 - The group of associate professor Hitoshi Tamura and others of the National Institute of Natural Sciences (NINS) National Institute for Fusion Science (NIFS) first applied topology optimization techn
Southampton UK (SPX) Jul 03, 2020 - New research has shown that Drax power station in North Yorkshire is the optimal site for the carbon capture and storage facilities that will be needed reduce carbon emissions and achieve the target
Plainsboro NJ (SPX) Jul 03, 2020 - A challenge to creating fusion energy on Earth is trapping the charged gas known as plasma that fuels fusion reactions within a strong magnetic field and keeping the plasma as hot and dense as possi
London (AFP) July 3, 2020 - A UK court on Friday fined Greenpeace Pounds 80,000 for breaching a ban to block a BP oil rig in the North Sea last year.
Bochum, Germany (SPX) Jul 03, 2020 - Better still: living algae can be used as biocatalysts for certain substances, and they bring the co-substrate along, producing it in an environmentally friendly manner through photosynthesis. The t
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jul 03, 2020 - The research team of Assistant Professor Masahiko Sato and Professor Yasushi Todo of the National Institutes of Natural Sciences (NINS) National Institute for Fusion Science (NIFS) has succeeded usi
Berlin (AFP) July 2, 2020 - Turkey's foreign minister on Thursday said France should apologise for making false claims about a naval incident in the Mediterranean that has fuelled tensions between the NATO allies.
Baghdad (AFP) July 1, 2020 - Iraq's oil exports sank further in June as it tries to abide by OPEC production cuts, its oil ministry said Wednesday, but revenues crept up thanks to recovering crude prices.
Washington DC (UPI) Jul 01, 2020 - The United Arab Emirates' Joint Aviation Command concluded joint exercises in the Arabian Gulf with U.S. forces, the U.S. Marines said on Wednesday.
Riyadh (AFP) June 28, 2020 - Vacant religious sites. Abandoned pilgrim tents. Lifeless hotels. A stunning emptiness - and fears of economic ruin - haunt the usually bustling city of Mecca after Saudi authorities curtailed the hajj pilgrimage over coronavirus.
Solomons MD (SPX) Jun 26, 2020 - For the endangered Atlantic sturgeon and the commercially and recreationally important striped bass, the Delaware-Maryland-Virginia coastal shelf serves as an important spring and fall flyway.
Bochum, Germany (SPX) Jun 26, 2020 - Researchers from Basel, Bochum and Copenhagen have gained new insights into the energy states of quantum dots. They are semiconductor nanostructures and promising building blocks for quantum communi
