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China: Woman Saves Husband From Electrocution Using Bucket of Oil

A woman in Jinhua, Zhejiang, China, saved her husband from being electrocuted on September 25, 2025, after he accidentally touched a live electrical line while checking the line. Acting quickly, she grabbed a bucket of oil and threw it at the wire to break the electric current.

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Climate Protest Outside TotalEnergies General Assembly - Paris

Marion, a young activist is in shock after the attack on a man, without the police intervening during a demonstration on the outskirts of the Paris venue for TotalEnergies Annual General Meeting in Paris, France on May 26, 2023. The French oil and gas giant is gearing up for an electric meeting, targeted by a coalition of associations threatening to block it, but also by some of its shareholders who disagree with its climate policy. Photo by Pierrick Villette/ABACAPRESS.COM

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High oil prices to affect world economic recovery: Greenspan

TOKYO, Japan - U.S. Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan addresses an audience of Japanese business executives in Tokyo on Oct. 18. Greenspan said that persistent high crude oil prices will undoubtedly affect the steady recovery of the world economy, but their impact on growth and inflation is unlikely to be as severe as the oil shock in the 1970s.

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WORLD BANK-REPORT-FOOD-ENERGY-PRICES

(220427) -- BEIJING, April 27, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Photo taken on March 7, 2022 shows bottles of sunflower oil for sale at a supermarket in Istanbul, Turkey. The Russia-Ukraine conflict has dealt "a major shock" to commodity markets, altering global patterns of trade, production and consumption, the World Bank (WB) said in a report released on April 26, 2022. TO GO WITH "World Bank warns of rises in food, energy prices due to Russia-Ukraine conflict" (Xinhua/Shadati)

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WORLD BANK-REPORT-FOOD-ENERGY-PRICES

(220427) -- BEIJING, April 27, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Photo shows the oil refinery on Singapore's Pulau Bukom, Feb. 27, 2022. The Russia-Ukraine conflict has dealt "a major shock" to commodity markets, altering global patterns of trade, production and consumption, the World Bank (WB) said in a report released on April 26, 2022. TO GO WITH "World Bank warns of rises in food, energy prices due to Russia-Ukraine conflict" (Photo by Then Chih Wey/Xinhua)

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WORLD BANK-REPORT-FOOD-ENERGY-PRICES

(220427) -- BEIJING, April 27, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Photo shows the oil refinery on Singapore's Pulau Bukom, Feb. 27, 2022. The Russia-Ukraine conflict has dealt "a major shock" to commodity markets, altering global patterns of trade, production and consumption, the World Bank (WB) said in a report released on April 26, 2022. TO GO WITH "World Bank warns of rises in food, energy prices due to Russia-Ukraine conflict" (Photo by Then Chih Wey/Xinhua)

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Sunflower oil rationed in many French supermarkets

STORY: Sunflower oil rationed in many French supermarkets DATELINE: April 16, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:41 LOCATION: MONTBRISON, France CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of shelves in French supermarkets 2. various of sunflower oil STORYLINE: Empty shelves and posters informing consumers that the purchase of oil is limited to a certain number of bottles, this is what the "Cooking oil" shelves of French supermarkets have looked like for the past few days. France, a country which imports two-thirds of its supplies from Ukraine, is anticipating supply problems due to the ongoing Russia-Ukraine crisis. Millions of tonnes of sunflower oil destined for European buyers in Ukraine has been trapped, causing a major supply shock. French people have tended to stock up in recent weeks. As a result, the shelves of many supermarkets are empty. The shortage of sunflower oil has also pushed up the price of other vegetable oils around the world. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Montbrison, France. (XH

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High oil prices to affect world economic recovery: Greenspan

TOKYO, Japan - U.S. Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan addresses an audience of Japanese business executives in Tokyo on Oct. 18. Greenspan said that persistent high crude oil prices will undoubtedly affect the steady recovery of the world economy, but their impact on growth and inflation is unlikely to be as severe as the oil shock in the 1970s. (Kyodo)

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Disappointment and Expectation

Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka resigns, causing land prices to soar and inflation to rise. Takeo Miki became Prime Minister. The village of Rokkasho in Aomori Prefecture was designated as a development zone in Prime Minister Tanaka's plan to remodel the Japanese archipelago. The normalization of diplomatic relations between Japan and China was achieved through Tanaka's diplomacy.