British Petroleum

exacerbated fuel shortage crisis In the UK over the weekend amid "panic buying" from motorists so anxious that the government announced on Monday evening, it had asked the military to stand by for deliveries if needed.

Electricity, hot water and hot water prices will rise from July 1. On average, the heat price increases by 4.5%. Most expensive will be in Razgrad - with an increase of nearly 18% and Gabrovo - by almost 13%. After them are Vratsa, Veliko Tarnovo and Plovdiv.

The jump in the electricity price is on average about 3.5% for the country. The increase is within annual inflation. 

British petroleum giant BP has started operating a $28-billion pipeline in Azerbaijan to supply gas to Turkey and elsewhere in Europe, the company said July 2.    

Declassified documents released last week shed light on the Central Intelligence Agency’s central role in the 1953 coup that brought down Iranian Prime Minister Muhammad Mossadegh, fueling a surge of nationalism which culminated in the 1979 Iranian Revolution and poisoning U.S.-Iran relations into the 21st century.

The state-run Turkish Petroleum Corporation (TPAO) has inked a $1 billion loan agreement with Turkish state-run lender Vakıfbank and the country’s largest non-state lender İşbank so it can purchase Total’s stake in an Azeri gas project.