Clock Is Ticking for Oil and Gas Industry in Britain
By STANLEY REED
After nearly 50 years of production, time is running out to fix and upgrade operations in the North Sea, industry executives and analysts say.
After nearly 50 years of production, time is running out to fix and upgrade operations in the North Sea, industry executives and analysts say.
Despite the imposition of sanctions against Russia by the United States and the European Union, Moscow has vowed that drilling will continue.
Under a bill proposed by the government, data traffic would be taxed at the rate of about 62 cents a gigabyte. Critics say it seeks to limit access to independent sources of news.
A commissioner said that while the countries may not have to redraft their 2015 budgets, their filings would face tough scrutiny.
The agency has begun a criminal investigation into accounting irregularities at Tesco, adding to the woes of Britain’s largest retailer.
New York Times journalists covering religion would like to hear from Catholics who have been divorced, and, in particular, from those who have remarried.
A Malaysia Airlines flight with nearly 300 people aboard crashed in eastern Ukraine near the Russian border on July 17.
Among the 298 people aboard Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 were a renowned AIDS researcher, a Dutch senator and an Australian novelist.
World War I demolished empires and destroyed kings, kaisers and sultans. It introduced chemical weapons and aerial bombing. It brought women into the work force and hastened their legal right to vote.
Along the highway between Moscow and St. Petersburg — a 12-hour trip by car — one sees great neglected stretches of land that seem drawn backward in time.
Migrants fleeing countries like Sudan and Syria have long been attracted to Calais, a port city in northern France from which they hope to cross illegally to Britain.
The French government will send police reinforcements to the port city of Calais, where increasing numbers of migrants have been gathering, the prefect for the region, Denis Robin, said.
Prime Minister David Cameron of Britain says his country will not make a 2.1 billion euro payment into this year’s European Union budget, saying the sum is “completely unacceptable.”
The old East End has had such a glittering makeover that only the glitterati can afford it.
The few legal protections Russians still possess are becoming even more limited.
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