UK Business and Energy Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng ordered the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) on Saturday to investigate whether fuel retailers have passed on a 5-pence-per-liter price reduction to consumers. Petrol and diesel prices have reached record highs in the UK, partly as a result of the government’s own embargo …
Read More »‘Dozens eliminated’ after trying to storm police stations in Kazakhstan – official
Kazakhstani security services have claimed that they prevented attempts to storm police buildings in the country’s former capital, Almaty, on Wednesday night, killing dozens of protesters involved in the attacks. Demonstrators tried to take over the force’s headquarters and several stations across the city overnight, police spokeswoman Altanat Avirbek said on Thursday …
Read More »Lebanon in COMPLETE DARKNESS after 2 power stations shut down, blackout will ‘continue for few days’
The blackout in the country of almost six million is expected to last for several days, the government source told Reuters. “The Lebanese power network completely stopped working at noon today, and it is unlikely that it will work until next Monday, or for several days,” the official told the …
Read More »No fuel shortage? Motorists queue for petrol across UK, nearly 400 stations impose £30 limit amid ‘unprecedented demand’
Long queues of cars at petrol stations were spotted across the UK on Friday, with hundreds of motorists seeking to top off their tanks amid fears of fuel shortages. Some petrol stations ran out of fuel and closed, while many others lacked at least one brand of fuel, according to …
Read More »Rosatom to start setting up wind power stations across Russia, its press service says
“The current program for power supply agreements [under which the development of renewable energy sources is supported by the authorities] has been planned already, whereas, for the program for power-supply agreements 2.0, we are considering all possible territories of the country,” the source said. The list of regions for wind-power …
Read More »Torrential downpour FLOODS London as water gushes into Tube stations, strands motorists (VIDEOS)
The heavens opened up on London on Monday afternoon, after the Met Office warned of “heavy downpours” in the south of England. Streets were soon turned into rivers, as water lapped into stores and forced pedestrians to slog through knee-high floods to get home. Video footage showed vehicles nearly submerged …
Read More »Syrians filled the polling stations to defend their sovereignty and now fill the streets to celebrate the result
The irony of media outlets and pundits from America tweeting about what they view as the failure to hold free and fair elections in Syria was not lost on some. I wrote yesterday of the jubilation I saw in eastern Ghouta, where Syrians were celebrating the arrival of election day and proudly …
Read More »Gas stations run dry and motorists queue for fuel in US, as ransomware attack on pipeline leads to shortages (VIDEOS)
A ransomware attack on Friday shut down a 5,500-mile gasoline and diesel pipeline that supplies nearly half of the fuel supply of the entire US East Coast. Operated by the Colonial Pipeline Company, the vital fuel artery normally transits 100 million gallons per day from Texas all the way to …
Read More »Coming renaming 14 stations
On WDC, renamed 14 stations. At the Moscow Central diameters (IDC) at the request of passengers renamed 14 stations, informs “RIA Novosti” with reference to the press service of the Department of transport. “We constantly collect and analyse the views of passengers, to make a new form of transport more …
Read More »Rosstandart told about the new method of struggle with incomplete filling at gas stations
The government will introduce a bill that gives the right Rosstandart test purchases on nedolya fuel. This was stated by the head of Department Alexey Abramov. According to him, developed a new method of inspections of petrol stations. It is how to check specific column, and her work as a …
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