Home
RSS
The case, in which the company was accused of backing a campaign of repression conducted by Nigeria’s former military government in the oil-rich Niger Delta region in the 1990s was due to go to trial in a New York court.
Mr Saro-Wiwa led a...
Related Stories
Most Recent
Most Popular
Most Commented
10
Star It 
(0)
Days before a historic visit of the US President to Russia gambling was narrowed just to four geographical areas of a country, far away from capitals and significant...
made popular 8 hr. ago
Presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev will be looking to trumpet their commitment to reducing nuclear arms when they meet in Moscow next week. Resetting U.S.-...
made popular Jul 2 2009
At the Metelitsa casino, the oldest private gambling house in Moscow, which opened in 1993 after the fall of the Soviet Union, they are packing up the card shoes and...
made popular Jul 1 2009
Filed under: Sports, News, Weird Passengers on a new cruise along the coast of Somalia are paying to catch more than just salmonella. A Russian luxury yacht company is...
made popular Jul 1 2009
NATO and Russia are likely to resume formal military ties Saturday at their first high-level meeting since last year’s war between Russia and Georgia.
Relations...
made popular Jun 27 2009
Once it would have been Cold War rhetoric and “fraternal greetings” to Marxist guerrillas. Yesterday Russia returned to Africa in a scramble to restore its...
made popular Jun 24 2009
The leader, Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, president of Ingushetia, was being driven to work in a motorcade when it was hit by an enormous bomb. One or more of his bodyguards may...
made popular Jun 22 2009
In a strange demonstration of what we would call supernatural celebrity power, Brad Pitt, or rather his cardboard cutouts seem to be helping ease traffic problems in...
made popular Jun 20 2009
Tired of trying your hands with the computer in a game of chess? Now, here is a robot from Russia, designed to play chess and frequently beat you at it. The robot’s...
made popular Jun 18 2009
Anatoly Boiko stands in front of a pile of neatly sawn planks. The wood, he says, is one of the oddest government handouts he’s ever received.
To help the...
made popular Jun 18 2009
The “age of empires has ended” and the “international capitalist order is retreating,” declared a beaming Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday,...
made popular Jun 17 2009
Russian crime gangs on the Costa del Sol are injecting kidnap victims with what they claim is an experimental KGB virus to terrify them into paying ransoms.
In the...
made popular Jun 16 2009
High level Kremlin officials close to Prime Minister Putin have expressed deep concerns with regard to the delays to law enforcement actions being sanctioned by...
made popular Jun 15 2009
Russia will rebuild its Soviet-era network of polar stations and use its icebreaker fleet to help support its claim to the vast resources of the Arctic, the man who led...
made popular Jun 10 2009
President Dmitri A. Medvedev, who rarely misses a chance to accuse the United States of causing the global financial crisis, told an economic forum on Friday that...
made popular Jun 6 2009
Filed under: News, Weird, Nature Motorcycle riding offers a unique sense of freedom and excitement, but these advantages are weighed against significant safety issues....
made popular Jun 3 2009
The Russian nesting doll, the pride of a nation, is in trouble. For more than 200 years, the matryoshka has come to symbolise Russian handicraft at its finest, the...
made popular Jun 1 2009
Feral children are long known to display animal behavior but here is a case of a five-year-old Russian girl who has been raised in a city but who barks and behaves like...
made popular May 30 2009
Months of infighting between Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and President Dmitry Medvedev over Russia’s budget ended on Monday - with Medvedev on top. At a...
made popular May 27 2009
As a young officer fresh out of a Soviet military academy, Alexander Primak was assigned to serve in this frontier city in the Russian Far East, eight time zones away...
made popular May 26 2009
All Stories
Most Recent
Most Popular
Most Commented
Timmy, a giant tortoise, received a blow losing some part of the shell while fighting a fellow turtle at the Paignton Zoo, in Devon. Vets then filled that gap with a...
made popular May 20 2009
AP, Washington
The Supreme Court says Shell Oil Co. cannot be held responsible for cleanup of a contaminated Superfund site owned by a defunct company simply because it delivered...
made popular May 5 2009
AP, Washington
The Supreme Court said Shell Oil Co. cannot be held responsible for cleanup of a contaminated site owned by a defunct company simply because it delivered chemicals to...
made popular May 4 2009
AP, Amsterdam
Europe’s largest oil company, Royal Dutch Shell PLC, on Wednesday reported a 62 percent drop in first-quarter net profit as oil prices fell sharply amid a global...
made popular Apr 29 2009
AP, New York
Shell Oil Co. reached a $5.8 million settlement Thursday with environmental groups and agreed to cut greenhouse gas emissions at a Gulf Coast refinery.
made popular Apr 23 2009
AP, Dublin
Ireland’s police force says 15 masked men armed with steel pipes, chains and nail-studded clubs have ransacked a Shell pipeline project.
made popular Apr 23 2009
AP, Amsterdam
Royal Dutch Shell PLC, Europe’s largest oil company, said Thursday it swung to a net loss of $2.81 billion in the fourth quarter, hurt by the sharp fall in oil...
made popular Jan 29 2009
AP, Amsterdam
Royal Dutch Shell PLC, Europe’s largest oil company, has reported a $2.81 billion net loss for the fourth quarter as the price of oil fell sharply and it wrote...
made popular Jan 29 2009
AP, San Juan
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is fining a Shell facility in Puerto Rico more than $1 million for allegedly contaminating surrounding waters.
made popular Jan 14 2009
AP, Greeley
A bomb squad took a live mortar shell that a man found among his grandfather’s possessions and detonated it at an undisclosed site. The sheriff’s department...
made popular Jan 5 2009
AP, Athens
Greece’s Competition Commission says it has fined the local units of oil giants BP PLC and Royal Dutch Shell PLC a total of nearly euro50 million ($64 million)...
made popular Nov 25 2008
AP, Baghdad
An Iraqi lawmaker on Tuesday accused the Oil Ministry of a lack of transparency when it signed a preliminary deal with Royal Dutch Shell PLC on a no-bid basis to tap...
made popular Nov 25 2008
AP, Baghdad
An Iraqi lawmaker has accused the Oil Ministry of a lack of transparency when it signed a preliminary deal with Royal Dutch Shell PLC to tap natural gas in southern...
made popular Nov 25 2008
AP, Shanghai
Royal Dutch Shell PLC and PetroChina have signed an agreement for China to buy up to 40 million tons of liquefied natural gas over 20 years, Shell said Tuesday.
made popular Nov 25 2008
AP, Ankara
Turkey’s state-run gas company Botas and Royal Dutch Shell PLC signed a preliminary agreement on Thursday for natural gas exploration and marketing in Iraq.
made popular Nov 20 2008
AP, Amsterdam
Royal Dutch Shell PLC, Europe’s largest oil company, Thursday reported a 22 percent jump in net profit for the third quarter, despite a fall in production, thanks...
made popular Oct 30 2008
AP, New York
Victims of the Nigerian government’s violent 1990s-era crackdown on residents of oil-rich lands where Royal Dutch Shell had drilling operations may finally reach...
made popular Oct 9 2008
Kazakh national oil company KazMunaiGaz bought 75% stake in Romanian oil firm Rompetrol for $2.7bn but requires final approval from the European Union.
The deal will...
made popular Sep 10 2008
Постройка представляла из себя прозрачную конструкцию, с сетчатым куполом из цветного...
made popular Aug 13 2008
Related Tags
Amsterdam BP Business Chevron ConocoPhillips earns Environment EU Europe ExxonMobil Netherlands North America oil Pictorial Royal Dutch Shell PLC Russia Technology TOTAL U.S. United States
Images
Mogadishu:
Somalis help the injured after mortar shells fired by the al Shabab insurgent group at government and Ethiopian bases, landed in the Bakara market in Mogadishu, Somalia, Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2008. Nine civilians were killed and fifteen others were injured..
