Topic: Energy — Neutral reports only
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[2026-02-26 21:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on Wednesday again accused Ukraine of plotting to sabotage Hungary's energy infrastructure, following a Ukrainian drone attack on a key Transneft oil pumping station in the Russian republic of Tatarstan early Monday, which was further detrimental to the Druzhba oil pipeline.
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[2026-02-26 20:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iran is seeking to entice US president Donald Trump with potential business opportunities, including investment in its oil and gas sector, as high-stakes nuclear talks resume on Thursday, the Financial Times reported.
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[2026-02-26 20:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Local Spain
Snippet: Spain's Consumer Affairs Ministry has announced that he will implement rules to ban the sale of energy drinks to minors under the age of 16.
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[2026-02-26 19:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: German Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s first official visit to China continues with a tour of Beijing’s Forbidden City on Thursday, a symbolic stop during talks focused on trade and global tensions. Merz said Germany and Europe want a partnership with China that is balanced and reliable. His visit comes as Beijing looks for allies against renewed US tariffs.
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[2026-02-26 17:17 UTC+10:00] [Business / Companies] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Pilot Energy is edging closer to a national first, with Australia’s inaugural direct air capture demonstration facility now fully built and on track to be operational by mid-June at the company’s Cliff Head onshore plant near Dongara.
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[2026-02-26 16:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won met To Lam, general secretary of Vietnam's Communist Party in Washington to discuss cooperation in the energy and industrial sectors.
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[2026-02-26 16:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: OCI Holdings said Thursday it has completed project financing for a 260-megawatt solar power plant in Texas, accelerating its push into long-term renewable energy infrastructure investment in the United States.
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[2026-02-26 16:32 UTC+10:00] [National] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Products & ServicesOpen Products & Services section
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[2026-02-26 16:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Kim Jong Un has declared his intent to expand North Korea's nuclear arsenal and operational range - calling on the United States to respect his country's nuclear power, in a rare message to Washington.
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[2026-02-26 16:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: A person stands as a vehicle passes by in front of an electronic stock board showing Japan’s Nikkei index at a securities firm Thursday, Feb. 26, 2026, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
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[2026-02-26 16:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: The UK's first geothermal power plant is set to go live, providing a completely new type of renewable electricity using hot water from underground.
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[2026-02-26 15:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Trabajadores descargan granos de un camión en el mercado de la Milla 12 el 16 de febrero de 2024, en Lagos, Nigeria. (AP Foto/Mansur Ibrahim, archivo)
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[2026-02-26 15:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: The United States has said it will allow the resale of some Venezuelan oil to Cuba in a move that could ease the island’s acute fuel shortages, as neighbouring countries raised the alarm over a rapidly deteriorating humanitarian situation caused by Washington’s oil blockade.
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[2026-02-26 15:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Saudi Aramco halted liquefied petroleum gas exports from its Juaymah terminal in eastern Saudi Arabia this week after a part of the delivery system carrying propane and butane was structurally damaged, the company said on Wednesday.
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[2026-02-26 15:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán says he has stationed soldiers at key energy facilities across the country after he blamed Ukraine for disrupting energy supplies.
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[2026-02-26 14:55 UTC+10:00] [Business / Companies] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: TMK Energy has ticked off a key milestone in Mongolia, setting a new daily gas production record at its Gurvantes XXXV project and delivering its clearest sign yet that the pilot is edging into commercial gas territory.
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[2026-02-26 14:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: FILE -Workers offload grains from a truck at the Mile 12 Market in Lagos, Nigeria, Feb. 16, 2024. AP Photo/Mansur Ibrahim, File)
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[2026-02-26 13:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Christopher Turner will be eligible for parole in December this year. (ABC News: Jamie McKinnell)
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[2026-02-26 12:14 UTC+10:00] [News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Michael West Media
Snippet: February 26, 2026 12:14 | News
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[2026-02-26 12:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: SEOUL, South Korea — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has suggested his country could "get along" with the United States but declared that South Korea — Washington's security ally — remained its "most hostile" enemy, state media reported Thursday.
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[2026-02-26 11:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Consortium has agreed to sell its interest in UK Power Networks to French multinational Engie
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[2026-02-26 11:36 UTC+10:00] [National / NSW] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: A former gas fitter failed to complete several tests that would have prevented the death of one newborn and life-long brain damage to a second baby during an installation mix-up at a Sydney hospital, which a judge ruled fell “so short of expected standards”.
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[2026-02-26 11:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: SunPork's Tong Park is one of Queensland's largest piggeries. (ABC Rural: Brandon Long)
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[2026-02-26 10:55 UTC+10:00] [North Dakota] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Group says case far from over after being found liable for defamation and other claims brought by energy firm
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[2026-02-26 09:58 UTC+10:00] [National] [Factuality: 100]
Source: 9News
Snippet: The safety net has been pulled out from under Australian energy consumers, leaving more than one in six households struggling to settle their latest electricity bills.New data released today by Canstar reveals the expiration of federal energy rebates is creating "hip-pocket havoc" nationwide. A survey of 3000 respondents found that 72 per cent of households have already seen their costs climb since the subsidies ended, with nearly 20 per cent of those people now unable to meet the higher costs
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[2026-02-26 08:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Georgia Power Co.'s Plant Bowen generates electricity, Dec. 14, 2020, in Euharlee, Ga. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart, File)
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[2026-02-26 08:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Leaders and attorneys for several Greenpeace entities listen to a reporter’s question after a jury’s verdict at the Morton County Courthouse in Mandan, N.D., Wednesday, March 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Jack Dura)
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[2026-02-26 07:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: On the day households found out their energy bills would fall in April, the Chancellor chose to go to the headquarters of the company that has quietly become the UK's biggest domestic energy supplier, Octopus.
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[2026-02-26 07:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Pipeline used to carry crude oil sits at the Superior, Wis., terminal of Enbridge Energy, June 29, 2018. (AP Photo/Jim Mone, File)
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[2026-02-26 07:35 UTC+10:00] [Cuba] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Rare clash off island’s coast comes amid oil embargo and heightened tensions between two countries
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[2026-02-26 07:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Iran is loading almost three times the amount of oil it normally does onto tankers in the Persian Gulf in a sign it is anticipating a US attack that could prevent its oil from hitting the market.
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[2026-02-26 07:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: Earlier this month, US President Donald Trump’s administration drew a flurry of condemnations for its decision to repeal the Environmental Protection Agency’s “endangerment finding”: a formal, evidence-based acknowledgement that greenhouse-gas emissions pose a threat to public health. Although the change may seem minor, it is anything but. Since 2009, the endangerment finding has underpinned much of the climate-related policymaking at the EPA and other agencies.
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[2026-02-26 07:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The Russian government is considering possible support measures for Cuba, which is dealing with a major energy crisis, Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandr Novak has said.
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[2026-02-26 07:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The Russian government is considering possible support measures for Cuba, which is dealing with a major energy crisis, Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandr Novak has said.
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[2026-02-26 06:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Deputy Minister of Transport and Highways, Dr. Prasanna Gunasena stated today that while the coal procurement process has been conducted properly by technical committees, a group from the Opposition and several media channels are continuously attempting to suggest that irregularities have occurred. He noted that such falsehoods will not last long.
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[2026-02-26 06:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: A committee consisting of seven experts has been appointed to evaluate the current coal supply methodology for the Lakvijaya Power Plant by the Secretary of Energy Ministry.
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[2026-02-26 06:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: President Donald Trump has said the United States has received “more than 80 million barrels of oil” from Venezuela, hours after the Pentagon said US forces had “captured” a third “sanctioned” oil tanker in the Indian Ocean.
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[2026-02-26 06:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa has demanded a Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) led by the Opposition to carry out an independent, impartial investigation into the coal procurement process. He said that the recent imports are of inferior quality and have caused massive financial losses to the State.
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[2026-02-26 06:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak of Russia has said his government is discussing the possibility of providing fuel to Cuba, as the United States continues to restrict oil resources going to the island nation.
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[2026-02-26 04:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: TORONTO — Canada announced Wednesday it is sending $8 million Canadian (US$6.7 million) in food aid to people in Cuba as the island faces an escalating fuel crisis as oil shipments have slowed following US threats of tariffs.
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[2026-02-26 04:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: In his State of the Union address Trump said his preference was to use diplomacy in dealing with Iran. But, he added, “I will never allow the world’s number one sponsor of terror — which they are, by far — to have a nuclear weapon.”
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[2026-02-26 03:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: The United States has issued a new wave of sanctions against Iran, targeting ships that it said are selling Iranian oil to help fund the country’s ballistic missile programme.
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[2026-02-26 03:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Billionaire natural resources investor Rick Rule, legendary short-seller Bill Fleckenstein, and veteran oil trader Erik Townsend join ZeroHedge this evening at 7PM ET to give their outlooks on three key commodities sectors: Gold, Oil, and Uranium.
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[2026-02-26 03:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Prime Minister Viktor Orban ordered extra security at critical energy infrastructure sites after accusing Ukraine of trying to disrupt Hungary’s energy system.
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[2026-02-26 03:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: ACEN Corp. said Wednesday that it had executed an additional subscription agreement with unit ENEX Energy Corp. to help fund the latter’s operational requirements and address negative stockholders’ equity.
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[2026-02-26 03:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: THERE have been a couple of interesting developments from the Department of Energy (DOE) this week that certainly warrant some further examination, including one in my favorite subject matter area: nuclear energy. According to a press release from the DOE published on Tuesday, Feb. 24, the department has “completed a harmonized, whole-of-government licensing and permitting flowchart for nuclear power plant projects, a key step toward enabling the safe and efficient operation of nuclear power facilities by 2032 aimed at meeting
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[2026-02-26 03:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: SURGING Farm Fresh braces for its toughest test yet as it seeks a third straight victory against Bella Belen and the Capital1 Solar Spikers, while Galeries Tower aims to sustain its breakthrough momentum against a reeling Choco Mucho side in Thursday’s Premier Volleyball League All-Filipino Conference preliminaries at the FilOil Playtime Center in San Juan.
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[2026-02-26 02:37 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Oil prices are sliding this morning following as an over-supplied market (API reported a huge 11.4mm barrel build last week) beats the geopolitical risk premia (with the US poised to attack Iran).
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[2026-02-26 02:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: State-run bodega manager Roberto Roman fills bags with donated Mexican humanitarian assistance to be delivered to a family, in Havana, Cuba, Thursday, Feb. 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
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[2026-02-26 01:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: Zimbabwe has imposed an immediate freeze on exports of all raw minerals and lithium concentrate, the mines ministry announced Wednesday, tightening state control over resources critical to global clean-energy and defense industries.
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