The UN’s cultural agency called for emergency measures on Thursday to prevent further looting at the historic Iraqi city of Nimrud which has been wrecked by the so-called ‘Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’ (ISIL) terrorist group. Nimrud, founded in the 13th century BC on the Tigris river about ...
One oil worker was killed and nine others were missing Thursday after the oil platform they were working on in the Caspian Sea collapsed in heavy winds, Azerbaijan’s state energy firm SOCAR said. The firm said in a statement that “a 150-metre section of a scaffold bridge and an oil ...
