
Iran strengthens ties to Central Asia with Uzbekistan deals
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi visited Uzbekistan on Wednesday with the goal of improving relations with the Central Asian country.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi visited Uzbekistan on Wednesday with the goal of improving relations with the Central Asian country.
The EU executive will next year present an initiative on the metaverse, the latest virtual reality space for users to interact, it announced on Wednesday (14 September).
The costs of renting offshore oil and gas rigs have more than doubled over the last two years, and could rise to $500,000 per day, oil company executives claimed on Wednesday, amid a tight hydrocarbon supply situation and as energy security continues to trump energy transition efforts.
The inaugural international scientific and methodological Forum, Psychological trauma of war, was held in Warsaw on Monday, Sep. 12.
Europe’s response to Russia’s war in Ukraine dominated European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s annual speech on Wednesday (14 September), but she provided little substance when it came to several important files and pressing issues facing the bloc.

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If Bulgaria allows two more breaches of air pollution standards this year, the country may have to close its coal-fired power plants, warned Minister of Energy Rosen Hristov on Tuesday.
Uniper is in discussions with Germany about transferring an even bigger stake of the troubled utility to the government, Uniper said in a Wednesday statement.
Ken Starr, the prosecutor whose investigation into the Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky case led to the impeachment of the then US president in 1998, died on Tuesday.
More than 1,000 health workers and 200 organizations have demanded that governments worldwide create and enact a legally binding nonproliferation treaty to end the global dependence on fossil fuels.