LUANDA, Sept 16 (Reuters) - Rights groups accused Angola's government on Wednesday of using the legal system to crack down on critics, after an activist was jailed for six years on charges of stirring rebellion.
MARIGAT, Kenya, Sept 16 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A goat-killing toxic shrub that was the bane of this Rift Valley town now has a new starring role: a clean fuel that lights homes and can earn villagers up to $1,000 a year.
HOUSTON, Sept 16 (Reuters) - Easy money, super-sized frack jobs, and desperate drillers offering deep discounts to oil producers - all three have been credited for sustaining U.S. crude output during the worst price slump in six years.
ISTANBUL, Sept 16 (Reuters) - Police detained 11 people in central Turkey, including executives of a conglomerate and university officials, in an operation targeting supporters of a U.S.-based cleric accused by President Tayyip Erdogan of plotting a coup, CNN Turk television said on Wednesday.
LONDON, Sept 15 (Reuters) - Sometime this year, possibly even this week, the U.S. Federal Reserve will add billions of dollars to the annual cost of borrowing.
(Wed, 16 Sep 2015) New preliminary data from the China Statistical Abstract 2015 show an upward revision to China's historical coal consumption and production. Energy-content-based coal consumption from 2000 to 2013 is up to 14% higher than previously reported, while coal production is up to 7% higher.
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