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Wood secures EPC contract for West Qurna 1 oilfield in Iraq
Wood, a UK-based provider of technical services to the energy sector, has secured a contract from PetroChina for the West Qurna 1 oilfield in southern Iraq. Under the contract,...
Passengers Scream in Terror as Out-of-Control Bus Hits Several Vehicles, Injuring at Least 13, After ‘Braking System Failure’
NEED TO KNOW13 people were injured when a busy inter-city bus had a "braking system failure" in São Paulo, BrazilThe incident occurred at 7:30 a.m. on Monday, Nov. 17...
Eastern Libya halts cooperation with UN after Qatar-UNDP pact
Officials in eastern Libya expressed concern, calling the move an “entirely unacceptable” breach of diplomatic protocol.Libya’s eastern authorities have halted their collaboration with the United Nations Support Mission in...
Polish foreign minister fingers Russia’s GRU in rail track blast
WARSAW, Poland — In the aftermath of a blast that destroyed a train track in a village south of the country’s capital Warsaw, Polish Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign...
Poland closes last Russian consulate after attack
Poland is closing the Russian Consulate General in Gdańsk - Moscow's last in the country - Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski said on Wednesday in response to the weekend's bomb...
Germany’s Merz faces angry backlash in Brazil after disparaging Belém
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is facing a severe backlash in Brazil over comments made following his visit to the Amazonian city of Belém, the host city for the UN...
Hong Kong PolyU’s top AI scientist Yang Hongxia eyes ‘last mile of generative AI’
Chinese artificial intelligence scientist Yang Hongxia, a professor at Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU), is seeking to democratise large language models (LLMs) by empowering hospitals and various enterprises to...
Fabricated exchange at Chinese government briefing misleads online
Chinese media have reported that fraudsters were able to use SIM cards smuggled out of China in telecom scams despite a rule that anyone buying the cards must register...
China bans Japanese seafood as diplomatic dispute deepens
By Kaori Kaneko and Eduardo BaptistaTOKYO/BEIJING (Reuters) -China informed Japan on Wednesday that it will ban all imports of Japanese seafood, media outlets reported - a decision which comes...
EU plans fast-track system for military transport in emergencies
The European Commission will on Wednesday propose an emergency system to speed up the cross-border movement of troops and military equipment in response to growing security threats from Russia,...
