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July 24, 2017 10:58 AM

World's 1st floating wind farm starts to take shape off coast of Scotland

The world's first full-scale floating wind farm has started to take shape off the north-east coast of Scotland. The revolutionary technology will allow wind power to be harvested in waters too deep for the current conventional bottom-standing turbines used. <br/><br/>The Peterhead w...

July 24, 2017 10:50 AM

Afghanistan: 24 killed, 40 injured in Suicide car bombing in Kabul

In Afghanistan, a suicide car bombing in the capital Kabul today killed at least 24 people and injured 40. Acting Afghan Interior Ministry spokesman Najib Danish gave this information. <br/><br/>Police said, a suicide attacker detonated a car bomb in the western part of Kabul, although t...

July 24, 2017 10:47 AM

Jordan: Two people killed, Israeli wounded in shooting incident in Amman

In Jordan, two Jordanians have been killed and an Israeli wounded in a shooting incident at the Israeli embassy in the capital Amman. <br/><br/>According to a local security source the two Jordanians were working for a furniture firm and entered the embassy before the shooting. Few detai...

July 24, 2017 10:47 AM

Six OPEC & non-OPEC ministers to meet today in St Petersburg

Oil prices were little changed today following a steep fall in the previous session amid growing expectations that the joint OPEC and non-OPEC ministerial meeting later in the day would address rising production from Nigeria and Libya, two OPEC members exempted from the cuts.<br/><br/>Si...

July 24, 2017 10:46 AM

Cuba's top US negotiator named to new post

Cuba has reassigned the woman who led two years of intense negotiation with the United States under the detente worked out by former US President Barack Obama and Cuban leader Raul Castro. <br/><br/>State media said Josefina Vidal, former head of North American affairs at the Foreign Min...

July 24, 2017 7:55 AM

5.4 magnitude earthquake Jolts Southern Iran

In Iran, a strong 5(point)4 magnitude earthquake has led to a power outage in a remote area in the country's south. Iranian state TV has reported the quake that struck yesterday jolted the Sirch village in the southern province of Kerman, some 1100 kilometers south of the capital Tehran. <br...

July 24, 2017 2:26 AM

Turkish President Erdogan visits Gulf in bid to defuse Qatar row

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan travelled to Saudi Arabia and Kuwait today as part of a diplomatic tour aimed at healing an Arab rift with Ankara's ally Qatar. The Gulf states' official news agencies reported this. Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt cut ties and imp...

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