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Images of the the Abdülhamid Han drill ship as Turkey sends it on the first eastern Mediterranean energy exploration mission in nearly two years. The search for natural gas in energy-rich waters around the divided island of Cyprus has turned into an irritant in Turkey's ties with the European Union. IMAGES
Greece, Cyprus and Israel sign an agreement for a huge pipeline project designed to ship gas from the eastern Mediterranean to Europe. The move comes amid tensions with Turkey over its own activities in the area and a contentious maritime deal with Libya expanding Ankara's claims over a large gas-rich area of the sea. IMAGES
Governors at the UN nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), arrive for their November board meeting at the agency's headquarters in Vienna, Austria. IMAGES
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg attends a protest in London outside a major oil and gas industry meeting, warning that the "world is drowning in fossil fuels". "Behind these closed doors at the oil and money conference, spineless politicians are making deals and compromises with lobbyists from destructive industries, the fossil fuel industry," she tells protesters and media gathered outside the Intercontinental Park Lane hotel where the Energy Intelligence Forum is being held. SOUNDBITE
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva hosts a meeting of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organisation in Belem, attended by the South American leaders of Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Surinam and Guyana. IMAGES