One oil worker was killed and nine others were missing Thursday after the oil platform they were working on in the Caspian Sea collapsed in heavy winds, Azerbaijan’s state energy firm SOCAR said. The firm said in a statement that “a 150-metre section of a scaffold bridge and an oil ...
US President Barack Obama allowed US sanctions against Iran to be renewed on Thursday, but in a surprise move declined to actually sign the legislation that brings the sanctions into force. “The extension of the Iran Sanctions Act is becoming law without the president’s signature,” White House spokesman Josh Earnest ...