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Azeri leader Aliyev to affirm rule in poll, critics say vote unfair

By Nailia Bagirova BAKU (Reuters) – Azeri President Ilham Aliyev, helped by an oil-fueled economic boom, will maintain his tight hold on power with victory this weekend for his political party in polls opponents are boycotting and international rights groups say will not be fair. Azerbaijan is host to oil majors including BP, ExxonMobil and Chevron. Ilham Aliyev has consolidated power since succeeding his father and long-serving leader Heydar in

Saudi studies hiking domestic energy prices: Naimi

Saudi Arabia is considering raising its heavily subsidised domestic energy prices, the oil minister said Tuesday, as the kingdom confronts a record budget deficit caused by falling oil revenues. “All prices eventually rise,” Ali al-Naimi said on the sidelines of a mining conference. Fuel consumption in Saudi Arabia has risen nine-fold since 1971, making the country one of the largest consumers per capita in the world, according to one study.

EPA: Remedy to landfill fire will come before 2017

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A plan to make sure an underground St. Louis-area landfill fire doesn’t reach a cache of Cold War-era nuclear waste buried nearby will come before the end of 2016, an Environmental Protection Agency administrator said Monday despite the state attorney general’s calls for swifter action.

EPA: Remedy to landfill fire will come before 2017

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A plan to make sure an underground St. Louis-area landfill fire doesn’t reach a cache of Cold War-era nuclear waste buried nearby will come before the end of 2016, an Environmental Protection Agency administrator said Monday despite the state attorney general’s calls for swifter action.