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Locals call it the Door to Hell, a giant burning pit that has spit out angry flames for more than 40 years, casting a yellow-orange glow into the evening sky.
The Philippine Azkals earned a semi-final slot in the on-going AFC Challenge Cup tournament in Maldives after beating the highly-rated Turkmenistan National Football Team in Male, Maldives Saturday night.
Fed by one of the largest natural gas reserves in the world, the Darvaza gas crater in the Karakum Desert of central Turkmenistan is fittingly called "The Door to Hell" by locals. Aptly named, flames and the pungent odor of sulfur permeate the area.
Beijing -
China says it’s already in talks to build a high-speed railway that would connect the Chinese capital Beijing with continental United States.
Ashgabat -
Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov has scrapped a state award named after the mother of the late president in the latest reform to his predecessor's bizarre rule, Neutral Turkmenistan newspaper reported Tuesday.The isolated energy-rich Centra...
Popular American entertainer Jennifer Lopez has apologized for entertaining Turkmenistan President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov and for singing happy birthday to the 56-year-old leader in a party held at flashy Avaza resort Saturday.
The Philippine Azkals earned another impressive victory over the visiting Turkmenistan football team, scoring 1-0 in the final game of the AFC Challenge Cup Qualifiers Group E at the Rizal Memorial Football Stadium in Manila Tuesday night
Fresh from their impressive victory over the Cambodian Angkor Warriors Sunday night at the rain-soaked Rizal Memorial Football Stadium, the Philippine Azkals are all set to collide with Turkmenistan Tuesday night in Manila
Despite heavy downpour that flooded the Rizal Memorial Football Stadium Sunday evening, the Philippine Azkals demolished the visiting Cambodian national football team, scoring 8-0 to break Turkmenistan’s earlier 7-0 win over the Angkor Warriors
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The United States provides economic, military and diplomatic support to four of the seven least free nations on earth, according to a Digital Journal analysis of this year's Freedom House freedom rankings.
The highly-charged Philippine Azkals will shoot for a slot in the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Challenge Cup as they face highly-rated Turkmenistan Friday at the Dasarath Rangasala Stadium in Kathmandu
Fresh from their victory over the Indian Blue Tigers Sunday, the Philippine Azkals staged another upset victory as they prevailed over former Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Challenge Cup Champion Tajikistan Tuesday in Nepal with a 2-1 score
Ashgabat -
The President of the former Soviet state of Turkmenistan, Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov, announced that the country is looking to form its own space agency. The presidential decree did not say who would head the agency.
Beijing -
China was doing major infrastructure projects when Europe was basically at hut stage. The Great Wall, the Grand Canal and other works are hallmarks of Chinese engineering. Now, the Silk Track- Rail and road freight to Europe.
No amount of lofty hype about working in the public interest will change the fact that Wikileaks has failed to do that, but it has succeeded in force-feeding the world with tittle-tattle and gossip which may result in its downfall. What a waste.
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The International Energy Agency (IEA) has released its World Energy Outlook 2010, forecasting energy use, production, investment and trading into 2035. The Agency has zeroed in on greenhouse gas emissions.
Dozens of girls and their teachers have been taken to hospital in Afghanistan after they were exposed to what is believed to be poison gas on Wednesday.
As black blood bubbles out of the cankerous wound in the Gulf of Mexico, fossil fuel traffic through the Black Sea is set to grow with the intensified struggle to secure energy corridors from the Caspian Sea region to Europe.
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