They are still handing out free apples and chocolate bars at the entrance to the Paris climate talks and a waterfall on the Indian stand spells out messages such as “climate justice”.
Islamic State (IS) terrorists could now be armed with chemical weapons if Britain had not acted to thaw relations with Muammar Gaddafi, Tony Blair has insisted.
The former Prime Minister mounted a robust defence of his diplomatic detente with the Libyan dictator, arguing that otherwise his stockpile of illegal armaments could still be in circulation.
Mr Blair also disclosed that he telephoned Gaddafi “two or three” times in 2011 to try to get him to give up power peacefully - but refused to criticise David Cameron for using force to overthrow the regime.
An idea drawn on the back of a napkin for the first full scale subsea compression station has led to its inventor being honoured by the Society for Underwater Technology (SUT).
No topic has so dominated public discussion over the past week like Donald Trump’s call to indefinitely ban Muslims from entering the U.S. Editorial pages have raged, talk shows have engaged, even leaders of his Republican Party have forcefully rejected the proposal. One group of national leaders, however, has said little: corporate chiefs.
A few, it is true, have spoken in broad terms, usually without mentioning Trump. Mark Zuckerberg, for example, wrote on his Facebook page that Muslims should know they are always welcome at Facebook “and that we will fight to protect your rights and create a peaceful and safe environment for you.”
DOF Subsea, a leading provider of integrated subsea solutions to the offshore oil and gas industry, is in the process of developing a diving capability to service the North Sea and West Africa.
The incoming chief executive of Occidental Petroleum has been given a promotion ahead of starting her new role.
Vicki Hollub will now become the company’s president and chief operating officer and will replace the current boss Stephen Chazen in 2016.
Earlier this year it was announced she would take over when Chazen retired as chief executive of the company.
Energy provider SSE said it has secured agreements to provide 3,150MW of de-rated electricity generation capacity from October 2019 to September 2020 at a price of £18 per kilowatt.
The company said the move was as a result of the GB Capacity Market Auction process.
High-stakes climate talks in France will not end today as planned but will last at least until Saturday, French foreign minister Laurent Fabius has announced.
Diplomats and other top officials from more than 190 countries are trying to agree on the text of what would be an unprecedented deal for all countries to reduce man-made carbon emissions and co-operate to adapt to rising seas and increasingly extreme weather caused by human activity.
Former Highland MP and chief secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander was yesterday knighted by Prince Charles.
Sir Danny, as he now is, was one of the four Liberal Democrats who drew up the Coalition government agreement in 2010.
The 43-year-old, who was accompanied at Buckingham Palace by his wife Rebecca and daughters Isabel, eight, and Isla, five, said: “It was a great honour and a wonderful ceremony and it’s all rather humbling.
Countries have been told “it’s time to come to an agreement” on a new international climate deal as they worked through the night into the last formal day of talks.
A new draft version of the agreement - which aims to put the world on a path to avoiding dangerous climate change - has been circulated at the United Nations summit in Paris, with mixed
reaction from campaigners, businesses and observers.
The latest draft is slightly shorter than previous drafts and has lost most of its “square brackets” which denote disagreement.
A new international climate deal would be “meaningless” without measures to review and ramp up the action countries will take to curb their emissions, European leaders have said.
November’s platform supply vessel and anchor handler spot market was characterised by an increase in rates but a big drop in activity according to Norwegian-based market analyst Westshore Shipbrokers.
Ministers from around the world have worked through the night as the talks for a new deal on climate change enter their final days.
Efforts are being made to break divisions on key issues in the agreement which aims to avoid dangerous climate change and provide finance for poor countries to deal with the impacts of global warming.
A draft of the text for the agreement released on Wednesday contained the potential for ambitious targets on curbing rising global temperatures and cutting emissions over the coming decades, as well as weaker options, and a new text is expected later today.
Saudi-led forces fighting in Yemen have cleared a Red Sea island of Shiite rebels, Saudi state television reported.
The report today said forces had seized control of Jazirat al-Hanish al-Kabir island off the coast of Yemen near the strategic Bab al-Mandab Strait that connects the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden.
The United States is part of the “high ambition coalition” of countries calling for a strong deal on tackling climate change, US Secretary of State John Kerry has said.
As the crucial climate talks in Paris enter their final days, there is a growing recognition of the need to curb global temperature rises to even lower levels than previously agreed.
Russia’s defence minister said its military had launched the strikes in Syria for the first time from a submarine stationed in the Mediterranean.
The move was made as the country continues to target oil hotspots being used by Islamic State as it looks to profit from crude oil in the region.
Common commodities such as cocoa and coffee are under threat from global warming, businesses have warned as they backed a strong climate deal at international talks in Paris.