Oil prices traded narrowly mixed Thursday as the market weighed prospects for global economic recovery ahead of an OPEC meeting next week.

Source: business.inquirer.net

More than 100 years after European powers carved up the continent, Africa is again being stripped of its natural resources — this time the target is fruit, vegetables and water.

Source: www.taipeitimes.com

Water has been rapidly disappearing in Cyprus since the 1970s, yet despite the warnings, Cypriots don’t seem to be taking the shortage as seriously as they should.

Source: news.bbc.co.uk

Politicians look away as Cyprus dies of drought

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The annual Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival (MVFF) will add a lively accent to Island life this weekend with dozens of films for adults and children.

Source: www.mvtimes.com

March 9 (Bloomberg) — Nigeria may seek to increase its OPEC oil production quota if output remains free from militant disruption, an official from state-owned Nigeria National Petroleum Corp. said today.

Source: www.bloomberg.com

There’s a disconnect between the offer Shell and PetroChina have made for the Queensland coal seam gas company Arrow Energy and the prices that were paid in the past.

Source: www.businessday.com.au

TEHRAN, March 8 (UPI) — As the United States and other powers mull tightening economic sanctions on Iran, Tehran says it has begin ,ass production of cruise missiles – just the thing to block the strategic Strait of Hormuz.

Source: www.upi.com

Professor Peter Odell, adviser to Opec, says state authority would ensure energy companies work in the national interest Ministers must wrench back control of oil and gas production from the private sector if Britain is to maximise the value of the remaining reserves in the North Sea, a respected petroleum academic has warned. Peter Odell, a professor at Erasmus University in Rotterdam and an …

Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Reality TVs new crisis.

Source: nymag.com