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Reuters
2 hours ago
- Business
- Reuters
Kazakh Black Sea oil exports resume after brief halt over tankers' access, sources say
MOSCOW, July 24 (Reuters) - Russia's FSB security service has started handing out clearance for foreign tankers to access the Black Sea ports, allowing for Kazakhstan's oil exports to resume after a brief suspension, four industry sources said on Thursday. Two industry sources said on Wednesday that foreign tankers were being temporarily barred from loading at Russia's main Black Sea ports following new regulations, effectively halting oil exports from Kazakhstan handled largely by the Caspian Pipeline Consortium partly owned by U.S. energy majors. However, Kazakhstan's energy ministry said earlier on Thursday that the country had not halted oil loadings via the Russian sea ports. On Monday, President Vladimir Putin signed a law under which foreign ships will require the approval of Russia's FSB security service to access the country's ports. The CPC pipeline connects Kazakhstan's oil fields with export markets through the Russian Black Sea port of Yuzhnaya Ozereyevka near Novorossiysk. It transports mainly Kazakh oil and a small portion of Russian oil. Black Sea CPC Blend oil exports from the CPC terminal in Russia were set at 1.66 million barrels per day for August, or about 6.5 million metric tons, almost unchanged from the July export plan, Reuters reported last week. Exports and oil transit via the Novorossisk port were seen around 2.2 million metric tons in July, according to industry sources.
Al Arabiya
6 hours ago
- Business
- Al Arabiya
Kazakhstan says it has not stopped oil loadings from Russian ports
Kazakhstan's energy ministry said on Thursday that the country has not halted oil loadings via the Russian sea ports, Interfax news agency reported. Two industry sources said on Wednesday that foreign tankers were being temporarily barred from loading at Russia's main Black Sea ports following new regulations, effectively blocking oil exports from Kazakhstan handled largely by a consortium partly owned by US energy majors.
CTV News
7 hours ago
- Sport
- CTV News
Canada's Mboko ousted in second round of Citi Open with loss to Rybakina
Victoria Mboko of Canada during their first round match of the Wimbledon tennis championships in London,Tuesday July 1,2025. (AP Photo/Dave Shopland) WASHINGTON — Canada's Victoria Mboko fell 6-3, 7-5 to Kazakhstan's Elena Rybakina in second-round action at the Citi Open tennis tournament on Wednesday. Mboko fired three aces but committed nine double faults in the one-hour, 25-minute match. The 18-year-old from Toronto also broke on two of her three chances. Mboko was ahead 5-4 in the second set, looking to extend the match to a third set, but surrendered the final three games. Rybakina, the third seed in the tournament, also had three aces but just one double fault. She broke on four of her nine opportunities in the win. This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 23, 2025. The Canadian Press
Reuters
19 hours ago
- Business
- Reuters
Kazakh Black Sea oil exports halted by new Russian regulations, sources say
MOSCOW, July 23 (Reuters) - Foreign oil tankers are being temporarily barred from loading at Russia's main Black Sea ports following new regulations, two industry sources said on Wednesday, effectively blocking exports from Kazakhstan handled largely by a consortium partly owned by U.S. energy majors. The lack of port access to foreign ships, which also affected Russian oil exports from the port of Novorossiisk, could amount to more than 2% of global oil supply, according to Reuters calculations based on loadings data from the region. It comes days after the EU imposed fresh sanctions on Russia and complicates operations of the Caspian Pipeline Consortium, whose shareholders include Chevron (CVX.N), opens new tab and ExxonMobil (XOM.N), opens new tab. CPC ships oil through the pipeline, which carries more than 80% of all Kazakh oil exports, and further via Russia's Yuzhnaya Ozereevka terminal. On Monday, President Vladimir Putin signed a law under which foreign ships will require the approval of Russia's FSB security service to access the country's ports. The decree said that permission from port authorities for foreign ships to enter would need to be agreed with the FSB, which is the main successor organisation to the Soviet-era KGB. The new measures came into force immediately after the decree was published. CPC and Russia's ministry of transport declined to comment on the suspension. One of the sources said he expected the situation at the ports to be resolved in a day or two. Black Sea CPC Blend oil exports from the CPC terminal in Russia were set at 1.66 million barrels per day for August, or about 6.5 million metric tons, almost unchanged from the July export plan. Exports and oil transit via Novorossisk are seen around 2.2 million metric tons in July, according to industry sources. Mediterranean oil markets were already jittery following a contamination scare which led to delayed loadings of Azeri BTC crude oil from the Turkish port of Ceyhan in recent days. CPC's operations were also disrupted by a damaged pumping station in February in a suspected drone attack, and Russia's brief restrictions on capacity of the CPC's Black Sea terminal in April.
The Sun
21 hours ago
- The Sun
Brit pilot jailed in ex-Soviet hell prison could be freed after ex-wife's ‘chilling confession to killing baby' emerges
A BRIT pilot jailed for murder in a hellhole ex-Soviet prison could be freed after his ex-wife 'confessed' to killing their baby daughter. Mohamed Barakat, 46, is serving a 20-year sentence in a high security jail in Kazakhstan but has always maintained his innocence. 10 Bombshell recordings have now emerged of Madina Abdullayeva, 28, apparently admitting to unintentionally causing the death of her daughter Sophia. Barakat was sentenced in 2020 after a judge ruled he smashed his "smiling" baby during a drunken drug-fuelled hotel rampage, crushing her head against a wall. But the chilling audio which has been newly uncovered could mean the commercial pilot, who flew for a subsidiary of Hong Kong Airlines, could be freed or face a retrial. Madina was the main prosecution witness at his trial in Kazakhstan. Barakat received a maximum sentence under the criminal code because of the "aggravating circumstance' of committing the murder 'in a state of alcoholic and drug intoxication', said the appeal court. The country's prosecutor's office recently triggered an investigation 'on newly discovered circumstances', namely a confession by the pilot's glamorous ex-wife that she killed the baby. Detailed analysis including a 'forensic video-phonoscopy examination' reveals the confession to be Madina's voice, the pilot's legal representatives have been informed. It also found there was no tampering of the WhatsApp recording. The pilot himself recorded his ex-wife from inside his prison. 'I kill her….,' Madina is accused of posting, in evidence now being examined by police. 'I know you did,' replied the pilot, who has always maintained his innocence and previously claimed that his wife accidentally killed the child on 24 October 2019, but blamed him. Madin allegedly said on the recorded call to Barakat how she broke Sophia's neck at the hotel in Almaty. 'I left…and then when I come back, she is awake and crying because she's hungry. 'I start to feed her. And then she start to poo… 'And I try to wash her bum. And when I wash her, I break her neck…' She also told him she wanted to have another child with him. In a video made by privately-schooled Barakat, he said of her 'confession': 'Two days ago, we had another argument. 'I told her I would never have another baby with her until she told me what happened to my daughter, Sophia Barakat. 10 'And here you can see, she wrote 'Call me please'. 'And then, she writes 'I kill her'. In later conversations, Madina repeatedly asks him to 'forgive me'. These accounts are startlingly different from the version accepted by judges at the pilot's trial and appeal. The courts ruled that Madina had been beaten by her husband - despite no evidence she had any injuries - and left their hotel room after which he killed the child. The wife then opened the door and picked up the motionless girl, rushing down to the hotel lobby, where she was seen on security cameras. Madina had shouted: 'He killed my child, he hit her,' according to one hotel staff member. Hotel workers said the baby was 'blue'. Earlier they remembered the British girl as 'always smiling' during the family's stay at the Intercontinental Hotel in Almaty. The wife collapsed several times in the lobby as staff called medics who found the baby to be dead. 10 10 There are a host of other inconsistencies regarding the verdict. In turning down an appeal by the pilot, three women judges in 2021 ruled that 'the guilt of the convict [Barakat] was proved by the testimony of a witness - a hotel maid - that she heard the sounds of banging on the wall, after which the crying of the child immediately fell silent'. The judges said: 'More than ten witnesses testified that they saw the woman [Madina] with the child in her arms, who ran to the reception and reported that her drunken husband had killed her child.' Yet law enforcement broke their own rules in using photographs not the corpse to establish fatal wounds. Based on these errors, the court found Sophia died from 'multiple impacts…caused by repeated blows' - namely from Barakat banging his child's head repeatedly against the walls or doors, smashing the child's brain. The pilot was said by the judge to be drunk and under the influence of drugs yet astonishingly no drugs were found in his blood or urine, according to documents in the case. The only evidence of drug use was a toxicology test showing traces of THC in vomit from the hotel mattress, yet the centre has dismissed use of such evidence as unreliable. 'CCTV shows him walking steadily into the hotel, handing balloons to his daughter, and carrying her. Hotel staff said he did not appear drunk,' said his lawyer Din-Mukhamed Narymbetov. Additionally, Madina was the main prosecution witness based on evidence she gave in the aftermath of the killing. 'Her statements were obtained with procedural violations, and she eventually retracted them,' said the lawyer. Barakat said after obtaining his ex-wife's 'confession': 'Madina knows I am innocent. My family knows I'm innocent. The lawyers who stood with me - they know I'm innocent.'
