According to Itar-Tass news agency, Russia and Iran reached an agreement on the completion date of the Bushehr nuclear power plant on the 26th. The Iranian nuclear power plant that Russia participated in the construction will be put into use in September 2007.

A Myanmar newspaper said that Myanmar, Russia and Indian oil companies have unanimously agreed to explore and produce an oil and gas block in the Mottama sea area of Myanmar.

A press release issued by the International Atomic Energy Agency on the 31st stated that the agency's Director General ElBaradei had submitted a report on Iran's implementation of Security Council Resolution 1696 to the agency's council members and the United Nations Security Council that afternoon.

The second half of 2006 is a time when central banks around the world are wielding interest rate sticks. From the end of June to mid-August, the central banks of the United States, Japan, the Eurozone, the United Kingdom, Australia and South Korea successively raised their benchmark interest rates. China is no exception.

The rich diamond deposits in Canada's Northwest Territories are attracting the attention of global investors. Canadian Prime Minister Harper personally attended the opening ceremony of the first diamond mine in Nunavut Province today and declared that Canada is becoming one of the largest and most important diamond producers in the world.

The war in the Middle East has sent international oil prices to the sky. The oil pipeline in Alaska in the United States leaked at this time. This simply added fuel to the fire and made the already high oil prices even higher. Consumers suffering from high oil prices can only sigh: When will the increase end?

The panic caused by the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 1986 dealt a heavy blow to the EU's nuclear power industry. In the early 1990s, the EU completely stopped building new nuclear power plants. Today, as energy shortages become increasingly severe, some EU member states have refocused their attention on nuclear energy, and the nuclear power industry has once again shown a good

The California government in the United States declared a heat emergency in the state on the 24th, requiring government departments, businesses and residents to strictly limit electricity consumption in response to the high temperature weather that has lasted for 19 days and has caused at least two deaths.