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The Malta-flagged tanker Agioi Fanendes loaded about 40,000 metric tons of ultra-low-sulfur diesel, equivalent to roughly 300,000 barrels, at Russia’s Primorsk port on Thursday, Kpler data showed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
Whitehaven’s inventory built by 1.0 million tons in 1Q.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
Output in the first nine months of the year reached 35.03 million tons, an increase of 3.8% from the same period in 2025.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
Annual emissions in 1990 were about 431 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
In a nearby quarry they found a half-chiselled pillar weighing fifty tons.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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