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Ethiopia's Ethio Engineering orders fuel-saving measures amid supply fears
NAIROBI, March 29 (Reuters) - Ethiopia's Ethio Engineering Group has asked its more than 3,000 employees to switch to virtual meetings to reduce fuel usage following government guidance to avert a full-blown energy crisis.Like other countries in the region, landlocked Ethiopia faces fuel supply ...Reuters
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Chevron says repairs to Wheatstone gas facility to take weeks
By Helen Clark PERTH, SYDNEY, March 29 (Reuters) - Chevron's CVX.N Wheatstone liquefied natural gas facility in Western Australia is unlikely to resume full production for several weeks as it repairs damage caused by last week's tropical cyclone, the company said on Sunday.Cyclone Narelle...Reuters
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Adviser to UAE president says political solution for Iran attacks should include reparations
CAIRO, March 29 (Reuters) - Anwar Gargash, the diplomatic adviser to the UAE's president, said on Sunday that any political solution addressing Iranian attacks on Gulf states should include Iranian reparations for targeting vital facilities as well as civilians. The solutions should include cle...Reuters
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Chevron says repairs to Wheatstone gas facility to take weeks
SYDNEY, March 29 (Reuters) - Chevron CVX.N said on Sunday it would likely take several weeks to return its Wheatstone gas facility in Australia to full production following damage to equipment by severe weather.“While damage assessments continue at both the onshore Wheatstone plant and offshore Whea...Reuters
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Bahrain's Alba assesses damage after Iran strikes aluminium plants
UAE's Emirates Global Aluminium also sustained damageMiddle East supplies about 9% of world's aluminiumProducers already face shipping disruption due to Iran war March 29 (Reuters) - Aluminium Bahrain ALBH.BH, which runs one of the world's largest smelters, said on Sunday it was asses...Reuters
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Russia's Ust-Luga port damaged by Ukrainian drones, fire breaks out
MOSCOW, March 29 (Reuters) - Russia's Ust-Luga port, one of its largest petroleum export outlets, was damaged on Sunday in a Ukrainian drone attack that sparked a fire, Alexander Drozdenko, the governor of the northern Leningrad region said on Telegram.A total of 36 drones were shot down over th...Reuters
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Oman says no party has claimed responsibility for attacks on its territory
March 29 (Reuters) - Oman's foreign ministry said on Sunday that it condemns attacks on its territory, adding that no party has claimed responsibility.It said authorities were investigating the attacks' "sources and motives" without providing further details or specifying any specifi...Reuters
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Australia LNG disruptions continue after Narelle, thousands without power
SYDNEY, March 29 (Reuters) - Australia's liquefied natural gas production remained disrupted and thousands were without power in the remote northwest on Sunday, more than a week after the Narelle storm system hit the country.The impact of Narelle, downgraded from a tropical cyclone on Saturday, ...Reuters
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Australia LNG disruptions continue after Narelle, thousands without power
SYDNEY, March 29 (Reuters) - Australia's liquefied natural gas production remained disrupted and thousands were without power in the remote northwest on Sunday, more than a week after the Narelle storm system hit the country.The impact of Narelle, downgraded from a tropical cyclone on Saturday, ...Reuters
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WRAPUP 9-Yemen's Houthis enter Iran war with attack on Israel, while US Marines arrive in region
Yemen had, until now, stayed out of the Iran warUS military operations in Iran expected to conclude within weeks, Rubio saysWar strains US alliances, Trump questions NATO supportIranian attack on base in Saudi Arabia injures 12 US service personnelBy Menna AlaaElDin, Nayera Abdallah and Humeyra Pamu...Reuters
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Two Iraqi police officers killed in airstrike targeting Shi'ite PMF site in Mosul
BAGHDAD, March 28 (Reuters) - At least two Iraqi police personnel were killed and two wounded in an airstrike that targeted a Popular Mobilisation Forces headquarters in Mosul, which was located adjacent to a police facility, security sources told Reuters on Saturday.The PMF, known in Arabic as Hash...Reuters
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Saudi pipeline pumping 7 million bpd of oil, bypassing Hormuz, Bloomberg News reports
March 28 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's East-West pipeline, which circumvents the Strait of Hormuz, is pumping oil at its full capacity of 7 million barrels a day, Bloomberg News reported on Saturday, citing a person familiar with the matter.Crude oil exports from Saudi Arabia's Yanbu port on th...Reuters
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Kuwait airport hit by drones, radar system damaged, no casualties reported
March 28 (Reuters) - Kuwait International Airport was targeted by multiple drone attacks on Saturday that caused significant damage to its radar system but resulted in no casualties, state news agency KUNA reported, citing the country's Civil Aviation Authority.The authority's spokesperson l...Reuters
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Egypt to slow down some state projects for two months amid Iran war, prime minister says
March 28 (Reuters) - Egypt will slow down large state projects that involve high fuel and diesel consumption for at least two months, while fuel allocations for all government vehicles will be cut by 30%, Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly said on Saturday.Madbouly also said that both the public an...Reuters
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Baghdad orders probe after drone targets Kurdistan president’s home
March 28 (Reuters) - A drone attack targeted the home of the president of Iraq's Kurdistan Region early on Saturday, security sources said, in an incident that comes as tensions continue to rise across northern Iraq. Air defences also shot down a drone near a Peshmerga fighters’ base in...Reuters
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Saudi Arabian pipeline that circumvents Hormuz pumping 7 million bpd of oil, Bloomberg News reports
March 28 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's East-West pipeline that circumvents the Strait of Hormuz is pumping oil at its full capacity of 7 million barrels a day, Bloomberg News reported on Saturday, citing a person familiar with the matter.Reuters
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Iraq's prime minister condemns attack on house of Kurdistan region's president
March 28 (Reuters) - Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani condemned an attack on the house of the president of the country's Kurdistan Region, the prime minister's office said in a statement. Al-Sudani spoke to Kurdish President Nechirvan Barzani by telephone, it said. The attack occ...Reuters
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Rosatom says situation at Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant keeps deteriorating
MOSCOW, March 28 - The situation at Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant continues to deteriorate and attacks pose a direct threat to nuclear safety, the head of Russia's state nuclear corporation Rosatom said on Saturday after another strike near the facility.The International Atomic Energy A...Reuters
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Egypt to slow down some state projects for two months amid Iran war, prime minister says
March 28 (Reuters) - Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly said on Saturday the government would slow down large state projects involving high fuel and diesel consumption for two months to rationalizes consumption.The move is part of broader measures to cope with the economic fallout from the Ira...Reuters
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