Protesters set pictures of G7 leaders on fire and chanted during a demonstration near Italy's Turin city.

Iran’s state mining company says its coal concentrate output rose by 72% in March-November.

Europe's biggest Russian gas buyers could burn more coal to cope with reduced gas flows from Moscow.

Ukrainian authorities say at least 52 people have been killed and over 100 were wounded in a Russian rocket strike on a railway station in east Ukraine.

Iran has to build 5,000 megawatts of coal-fired power capacity in the coming years due to limitations of gas supplies to power plants in cold seasons and the need to diversify the fuel basket of thermal power generation units, a senior energy official says.

As the world slowly recovers from the consequences of the coronavirus pandemic, just before winter sets in, demand for fuel is surging and so are the prices of oil and its byproducts.