USA (MNN) ? Islamic State is taking lives in the most barbaric ways. Beheading Christians, burning people alive, selling the organs of those they capture, and selling young girls to the highest bidder. Why are they doing this? It?s not …
International Day of Peace
?And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not alarmed, for this must take place, but the end is not yet.? (Matthew 24:6 ESV)
It certainly sounds like we?re in that season, doesn?t it?…
U.S. Air Force deploys F-15 fighters to Graf Ignatievo Air Base in Bulgaria
Three hundred U.S. Air Force soldiers were just deployed to Graf Ignatievo in Bulgaria, along with twelve F-15 fighter aircraft. The airmen and all of their equipment are part of what the U.S. military calls a ?Theater Security …
A Crime Novelist Investigates Cuba?s Polyphonic Past
Leonardo Padura?s full name is Leonardo de la Caridad Padura Fuentes. Like his name, Padura?s new novel Heretics is long, elegant, a little religious in flavor, and invokes a great mononymous painter of the European past.
Padura is a Cuban
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Continuing miseducation on Bigfoot
Community and small local colleges typically provide non-credit continuing education courses for the locals at low cost. As I?ve written about previously, it?s often art or history classes, computer training, those sorts of things. But also frequently offered are ?classes? …
Indian H-Energy Hires FSRU from Engie
France’s Engie has signed a charter agreement with Indian H-Energy for use of the floating storage re-gasification unit, GDF Suez Cape Ann, for operations at Jaigarh port in the western Indian state of Maharashtra, the company said April 25. The …
Bulgarian Socialist Party leader: GERB-United Patriots governance programme is ?serious retreat? from election commitments
Bulgarian Socialist Party leader Kornelia Ninova, whose party is destined for opposition when the forthcoming Boiko Borissov GERB-United Patriots coalition goverment takes office, has described the coalition?s joint governance programme as a ?serious retreat? from their election promises.…
Enagas Profits Rise, LatAm Fortunes Still Mixed
Spanish gas grid Enagas announced a slight upturn in 1Q net profits on April 25, and updated markets about the mixed fortunes of its Peruvian and Chilean subsidiaries and a novel type of LNG bunkering operation that it conducted this …
Bulgarian prosecutors open investigation into utilities regulator
Bulgaria?s prosecutor?s office said on April 24 that it has opened a pre-trial investigation into suspected mismanagement by members of the Energy and Water Regulatory Commission (EWRC).
The prosecution?s statement said that its investigation was triggered by a …
EU OKs Funds For Cyprus, Other Studies
The European Commission said April 24 that its proposal to invest ?22.1mn ($24mn) in seven studies to promote energy infrastructure had been approved by EU member states. Four of these studies, relating to LNG and gas, will receive ?8.8mn of …