New Zealand power company Contact Energy has agreed to buy smaller rival Manawa Energy to create a business better able to develop the new generation the South Pacific nation requires. Contact ...

Hamas and the Houthis have opened offices in Baghdad, reflecting the two groups’ evolving relationship with Iraq as Tehran works to build a regional power bloc. By Alissa J. Rubin Reporting from ...

BAGHDAD — The United States will withdraw most troops from Iraq over the next two years but leave a small residual force in the northern Kurdistan region under a plan negotiated by American and ...

The S&P/NZX 50 Index ended slightly ahead after an up and down day. Energy generator Manawa surged more than 30% on the New Zealand sharemarket after receiving a takeover proposal from Contact ...

Bell Gully is pleased to be advising Contact Energy (NZX Code: CEN) on its proposed acquisition of NZX-listed Manawa Energy (NZX Code: MNW), through a court-approved scheme of arrangement.

Contact Energy’s CEO & Chairman explain why they’ve been trying to takeover Manawa in secret. Contact Energy’s $2.3 billion bid to acquire Manawa Energy is the gentailer’s attempt to make ...

The expiry of Manawa Energy’s low-priced contracts for the sale of electricity to Mercury will unlock significant value for its buyer Contact Energy, chief financial officer Dorian Devers told ...

Chinese firms won most of Iraq's latest oil contracts, continuing China's dominance in Iraq's oil and gas sector. The U.S. and its allies counter this by securing deals like the $27 billion ...

Iraq will impose a two-day curfew in November for the country’s first census in 27 years, officials said. “[The] curfew will be imposed in all provinces of Iraq on November 20 and 21 to ...

All U.S. personnel are in stable condition, an official told ABC News. United States and Iraqi military forces conducted a raid in western Iraq that targeted ISIS leaders and killed 15 ISIS ...

Four ISIS leaders were killed as a result of raid in western Iraq late last month, the US military said Friday. US Central Command identified the four leaders as Ahmad Hamid Husayn Abd-al-Jalil al ...

The US Central Command’s (CENTCOM) partnered raid with the Iraqi Security Forces in western Iraq that killed 15 Islamic State operatives is an important development because it illustrates that ...