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UK nearly doubles energy price cap in cost-of-living crisis
AFP, Published on 26/08/2022
» LONDON - Britain announced Friday a vast 80-percent hike in electricity and gas bills, in a dramatic worsening of the cost-of-living crisis before winter as the UK awaits a new leader.
Russia batters Ukraine energy sites
AFP, Published on 30/10/2025
» KYIV — Russia battered Ukrainian energy facilities with hundreds of drones and missiles, Kyiv said Thursday, killing two people, wounding children, and piling more pressure on Ukraine's fragile energy grid.
Ukraine welcomes Russian oil price cap
AFP, Published on 03/12/2022
» KYIV: Ukraine on Saturday welcomed a US$60 per barrel price cap on Russian oil agreed by the EU, G7 and Australia, saying it would "destroy" Russia's economy.
EU to target high energy prices
AFP, Published on 13/10/2021
» BRUSSELS - The EU on Wednesday will present a "toolbox" of measures to mitigate an energy crunch that threatens to send Europeans' power bills soaring.
Germany seizes Russian energy firm's subsidiaries
AFP, Published on 16/09/2022
» BERLIN - Berlin on Friday took control of the German operations of Russian oil firm Rosneft to secure energy supplies which have been disrupted after Moscow invaded Ukraine.
Haiti tense after unpopular fuel price hike
AFP, Published on 07/07/2018
» PORT-AU-PRINCE - Roadblocks went up in protest and gunshots sounded in the capital of impoverished Haiti Friday, ahead of a fuel price rise to comply with an International Monetary Fund agreement.
Fresh clashes in French fuel price protests
AFP, Published on 19/11/2018
» PARIS - Fresh clashes Sunday in the "yellow vest" fuel price protests across France led to more injuries to add to the more than 400 already reported by Interior Minister Christophe Castaner.
Thousands protest in Berlin over price rises
AFP, Published on 13/11/2022
» BERLIN - Thousands of people demonstrated in Berlin on Saturday calling for food prices to be controlled and for the rich to face higher taxes as Germany faces a cost of living crisis.
Germans head to Polish pumps as oil price bites
AFP, Published on 14/03/2026
» SłUBICE, Poland - Frugal Germans are crossing into Poland to buy petrol as pump prices rise as a result of Iran choking off global oil supplies in retaliation for US-Israeli strikes.
Honduras energy executive arrested over activist murder
AFP, Published on 03/03/2018
» LA ESPERANZA (HONDURAS) - Honduran authorities said they have arrested an energy company executive allegedly behind the high-profile 2016 murder of prominent environmental activist Berta Caceres.