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Shell quits Iraqi petrochemicals plant talks

Oil major Shell (SHEL.L), has withdrawn from talks on building a petrochemicals plant in the southern oil hub of Basra, Iraq’s oil ministry said on Tuesday. Shell in a separate statement confirmed, it was leaving the project.A statement from Iraq’s oil ministry said Shell would not continue discussions with the …

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Ukraine Has Two Specialized Assault Brigades. It Sent One To Avdiivka To Cover The Garrison’s Retreat.

For two years since Russia widened its war on Ukraine, the Ukrainian army’s 110th Mechanized Brigade defended Avdiivka, a Ukrainian stronghold just northwest of Russian-occupied Donetsk in eastern Ukraine. In recent days, however, the survivors of the 2,000-person brigade finally retreated west, escaping a gradual Russian encirclement of the ruined …

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Iran Update, February 13, 2024

Key Takeaways: Southern Gaza Strip: Israel presented a proposal to move displaced Gazans in Rafah to Egyptian-built tent cities in the southwestern Gaza Strip, according to the Wall Street Journal.Negotiations: Senior Hamas official Osama Hamdan claimed on February 12 that Egyptian and Qatar mediators believe that the Hamas ceasefire proposal …

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