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March 20 (Reuters) - China, the world’s top oil importer, succeeded in a seven-year campaign to boost its own production, achieving a record high last year with aggressive drilling at ageing fields, ...

March 20 (Reuters) - China, the world's top oil importer, succeeded in a seven-year campaign to boost its own ⁠production, achieving ⁠a record high last year with aggressive drilling at ageing fields, ...

"This article demonstrates the applicability of the growth model framework at the regional level. Focusing on Italy as a paradigmatic case of persistent regional inequalities, we test two theories of ...

OPEC+ has agreed in principle to a modest oil output increase on Sunday, five OPEC+ sources said, after the U.S.-Israeli strikes on OPEC+ member Iran and Tehran's retaliation led to shipment ...

Saudi Arabia has started to increase its oil output as part of a contingency plan in the event the United States attacks Iran and oil flows are disrupted, Reuters reported on Wednesday, as OPEC’s ...

Chinese AI startup Zhupai aka z.ai is back this week with an eye-popping new frontier large language model: GLM-5. The latest in z.ai's ongoing and continually impressive GLM series, it retains an ...

Nearly 40% of productivity gains in the workplace due to artificial intelligence are being lost to rework and low-quality output, according to new research from enterprise AI platform Workday. The ...

JAKARTA, Dec 30 (Reuters) - The Indonesian government will cut mining output quotas in order to support the prices of commodities like coal, Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Bahlil Lahadalia said ...

The Republican-led Congress managed to land quite a few achievements in 2025, but not necessarily the ones that lawmakers consider commendable. With fewer than 40 bills signed into law as of Monday, ...

The production of US natural gas and demand for it will both end the year at record highs, according to the US Energy Information Administration’s Short-Term Energy Outlook cited by Reuters on Dec. 9.

ABSTRACT: The settlement of transhumant pastoralists in their regions of origin, announced as a public intervention measure to mitigate transhumance conflicts in host communities, would not be ...