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How underwater welders risk death to keep bridges and piers standing

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Underwater welders have one of the world's riskiest jobs. We followed welders in Indonesia who dive with minimal protection in polluted waters to build piers for petrochemical plants that are booming across the country.

Saudi Arabia may be forced to reassess megaprojects like Neom

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A conceptual image of the planned design for The Line in Saudi Arabia's Neom, shows a large mirrored facade extending out into the water from the desert.
The planned design for The Line in Neom.

Neom

Saudi Arabia's futuristic Neom project aims to embrace green flying taxis, and will have 4 airports

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The Line, NEOM
The planned design of The Line in Neom.

NEOM

Ukrainian attacks on Russian oil refineries may be proving the Biden Administration wrong, experts say

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Firefighters extinguish oil tanks at a storage facility that local authorities say caught fire after the military brought down a Ukrainian drone, in the town of Klintsy in the Bryansk Region, Russia January 19, 2024.

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Russia's April oil and gas revenue could double despite Ukraine hammering its oilfields with drones, report says

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Russian oil depot
A fisherman carries his belongings on a sleigh on the ice of the Gulf of Finland against the backdrop of the St. Petersburg Oil Terminal.

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Oil disruption fears in the Middle East are getting real after reports of an Israel strike on Iran

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Russia has finally admitted Western sanctions are hitting its oil exports

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Vladimir Putin.
Russia's President Vladimir Putin.

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Ukraine says it will hit Russia's precious oil refineries even if the US tells it not to

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Smoke rises from an oil refinery after an attack outside the city of Lysychans'k in the eastern Ukranian region of Donbas, on May 22, 2022, on the 88th day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Smoke rises from an oil refinery after an attack outside the city of Lysychans'k in the eastern Ukranian region of Donbas, on May 22, 2022, on the 88th day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

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'Porous' sanctions haven't stopped Russia's war, but there's still more the West can do to squeeze its economy

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Russian President Vladimir Putin sits on a gilded chair wearing a blue suit and a light blue tie
Russian President Vladimir Putin listens to chairman of the Supreme Court Vyacheslav Lebedev at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, on February 6, 2024.

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Saudi Arabia's futuristic megaprojects are so expensive that even its oil riches may not be enough

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A conceptual image of the planned design for The Line in Saudi Arabia's Neom, shows a large mirrored facade extending out into the water from the desert.
A rendering of The Line, one of the Neom megaprojects.

Neom

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