Samrawit Gougsa, Editor (Business) OKLAHOMA CITY, OK — Aubrey McClendon, former CEO of Chesapeake Energy Corp., has secured an estimated $1.7 billion in order to kick-off drilling operations in Ohio’s Utica Shale for the new company he founded, American Energy Partners LP. The significant sum will be spent on hunting for oil and natural gas in the Ohio Utica Shale. A subsidiary division of the company, American Energy- Utica LLC, has raised several private […]
Emily Dutton Correspondent (Europe) MOSCOW — The police arrested around 1,200 migrants on Monday, in what they described as a pre-emptive raid. It was the latest in a series of dramatic events, which appear to have been sparked by the murder of an ethnic Russian a week before. The arrests were made at a vegetable warehouse, which was the scene of an ultra-nationalist riot just hours previously. Rioters targeted the scene claiming it was […]
Steve Lambert Editor (Sport) The qualifying stages of the World Cup have come to a close and we now know the nine teams from Europe that are certain to be at the finals next year in Brazil. Meanwhile, another eight second-placed teams have been given a last chance to get through, having to wait until next month to compete in the play offs. In Group A, already champions Belgium had to make do with […]
Anissa Katti, Correspondent (Asia: Middle East & Central) GENEVA – The discussions surrounding the more than controversial Iranian nuclear plan have resumed on October 15 and 16. The five permanent countries (United States, United Kingdom, France, China and Russia) of the Security Council, Germany, the Iranian minister of Foreign Affairs (Javad Zarif) and the prime Iranian negotiator, regarding the nuclear question, were all present. This unfreezing of the political tensions surrounding the nuclear plan […]
Lais Fulgencio, Editor (South America) Two of the 30 Greenpeace activists, Brazilian biologist Ana Paula Maciel and a British cameraman, were formally charged on September 2 this week for piracy, according to Greenpeace lawyer Mikhail Kreindlin. The two activists were detained in Russia for organising a protest at a Russian oil platform in the Arctic and are the only two accused of piracy by the Russian authorities for now. If convicted, they face up to 15 […]
Viktor Tsvetanov, Correspondent (Europe) KIEV – The Ukrainian government has agreed to sign an association deal with the European Union at the third Eastern Partnership Summit in Vilnius, due to take place in November, which means that a customs union with Russia will no longer be on the agenda. The Eastern European country has long been rambling between the choice to association with the EU, thus gain trade access to the 27 EU member states […]
Viktor Tsvetanov, Correspondent (Europe) STOCKHOLM – Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt accused Russia of drawing on economic warfare tools against former Soviet republics that have been considering closer trade relations with the European Union. Bildt, who reportedly expressed outrage against Russia’s foreign policy, using words like “brutal pressure” and “economic warfare”, also insisted on that the European Union needs a strategy to resist Moscow’s ongoing policy. The EU will be negotiating trade deals with Armenia, Georgia and Moldova at a summit of regional and EU […]
Alejandro Faini, Editor (North America) WASHINGTON DC — Syria has become the main topic in the international community and hugely influential in the United States. John Kerry and the entire Obama cabinet have been pushing inside and outside of the US for an initiative to attack the Syrian army as a “punishment” for the use of Chemical Weapons, despite the different flaws and differences in the investigations lead by the US and its allies. A day […]
Denislav Dochev, Correspondent (Business) Several years ago was signed the biggest and the most important energy project in Southern Europe. Since then South Stream has been qualified as project of strategic importance for Bulgaria and the other Balkan countries involved. The possible investment to Bulgaria is estimated at more than $3 Billion. The project has not been started yet, as there is not a single problem where EU and the Russian Federation stand on […]
Tahmeena Alam, Correspondent (Asia: Middle East & Central) Israel’s plans for almost 2000 new settler homes, amidst the on-going peace talks with Palestine, is in serious danger of ‘undermining’ peace efforts, said UN Secretary General, Ban Ki Moon. Ban Ki Moon, on a tour of the Middle East, weighed his concerns as he visited the occupied West Bank on Thursday, meeting with both Shimon Peres and Mahmoud Abbas, on separate occasions. “I am deeply troubled […]
