17 de agosto de 2026.- La riqueza, quizá solo por detrás de la lealtad, se ha convertido en uno de los atributos más valorados por Donald Trump durante su segundo mandato presidencial. La cantidad de personas con un patrimonio de al menos 100 millones de dólares que el presidente republicano ha n...

Carbon capture is still debated as if technical performance were the decisive question. Can a solvent remove carbon dioxide from flue gas? Can the CO2 be compressed, transported and injected underground? Will the storage remain secure? These questions matter, but they no longer explain why most announced projects do not reach construction. The missing component is usually commercial. A cement plant can capture carbon and still lose money on every tonne. A storage site can be technically ready and remain empty without contracted volumes. A pipeline…

Russia has received its first gasoline cargo from India as Ukrainian attacks knock out refining capacity and a second wave of fuel shortages spreads across at least 10 Russian regions, Reuters reported on Monday. The roughly 68,000-metric-ton cargo was produced by Nayara Energy at its Vadinar refinery in western India and delivered to Russia’s Arctic port of Vitino after a ship-to-ship transfer at Port Said, Egypt. Two more gasoline cargoes from India are expected to reach Russia in the coming weeks. Russia’s gasoline shortages have…

Russia has received its first gasoline cargo from India as Ukrainian attacks knock out refining capacity and a second wave of fuel shortages spreads across at least 10 Russian regions, Reuters reported on Monday. The roughly 68,000-metric-ton cargo was produced by Nayara Energy at its Vadinar refinery in western India and delivered to Russia’s Arctic port of Vitino after a ship-to-ship transfer at Port Said, Egypt. Two more gasoline cargoes from India are expected to reach Russia in the coming weeks. Russia’s gasoline shortages have…

Russia has received its first gasoline cargo from India as Ukrainian attacks knock out refining capacity and a second wave of fuel shortages spreads across at least 10 Russian regions, Reuters reported on Monday. The roughly 68,000-metric-ton cargo was produced by Nayara Energy at its Vadinar refinery in western India and delivered to Russia’s Arctic port of Vitino after a ship-to-ship transfer at Port Said, Egypt. Two more gasoline cargoes from India are expected to reach Russia in the coming weeks. Russia’s gasoline shortages have…

17 de agosto de 2026.- La Federación Venezolana de Maestros (Cendas-FVM) informó este día, que durante el pasado julio, la Canasta Alimentaria Familiar registró un aumento de 15,79% en su valor denominado en bolívares en comparación con el mes previo, si bien al revisar los costos en dólares, se ide...

Since early March, a previously obscure waterway between Iran and Oman that very few people could name has become the subject of daily reporting around the world after Iran closed it in response to the attack on Iran by the United States and Israel. The Strait of Hormuz, which remains closed to most ships, is now known around the world as the transit point for 20 percent of the world's oil and high percentages of key materials including fertilizers such as ammonia (23 percent), urea (34 percent) and phosphate (20 percent), helium (30 percent),…

17 de agosto de 2026.- Aruba recibió este domingo el primer vuelo chárter procedente de Venezuela para el restablecimiento progresivo de la conexión entre ambos territorios. El ministro de Turismo, Transporte y Trabajo de Aruba, Wendrick Cicilia, destacó el creciente movimiento y el interés gener...

Chevron has announced a new oil and gas condensate discovery offshore Angola, hitting more than 2,000 feet of hydrocarbons in a Block 0 exploration well that could be tied directly into the company’s existing production infrastructure in the country. The 105-4X well encountered more than 300 feet of net pay in the Pinda reservoir in the Lower Congo Basin, with Chevron describing the reservoir quality as “excellent” in a press release. The company has not yet disclosed an estimate of recoverable resources or potential production.…

17 de agosto de 2026.- El presidente brasileño, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, encabeza las preferencias para las elecciones de octubre próximo con el 41 por ciento, frente al 36 por ciento del senador Flávio Bolsonaro, según una encuesta divulgada hoy. Tal resultado corresponde a la décima edición d...

Lunes, 17 de agosto de 2026.- En Colombia casi 300 muertos en el terremoto, récord de deuda y ¿tregua arancelaria? El presidente de Colombia, Abelardo de la Espriella, ha mantenido una conversación telefónica de 10 minutos con el presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, para solicitar la su...

U.S. importers hauled in more than 200,000 tonnes of refined copper in July, the biggest monthly volume in at least 12 years. Add that to what's already sitting in Comex warehouses, LME-registered stock and private port storage, and the country's copper stockpile is now pushing past 1 million tonnes, built almost entirely on the bet that Washington is about to tax refined imports. LME warehouse stocks, however, have fallen for 42 straight sessions, the longest losing streak since 2014, down to just 204,975 tonnes, with nearly half of that already…

El plazo que Estados Unidos e Irán se dieron el pasado mes de junio para llegar a un acuerdo definitivo de paz en la guerra de Medio Oriente expiró este 17 de agosto sin ningún avance y con ambas partes acusándose de no haber cumplido los compromisos pactados. El presidente de Estad...

Phoebe Gates, la hija menor del magnate Bill Gates, se encuentra en el epicentro de la conversación de los negocios digitales tras salir a la luz un informe que detalla las operaciones internas de su empresa de comercio electrónico, Phia. De acuerdo con datos publicados originalmente por la ag...

Lunes, 17 de agosto de 2026.- Alerta: Irán advierte a Trump. El ejercito iraní amenaza con responder a cualquier nueva escalada, esto es Irán y tiene defensores que te romperán las piernas. El mensaje llega luego de las declaraciones de Trump donde señaló que ...

Libya’s electricity grid suffered another major collapse on Monday, knocking power plants offline across western, central and southern parts of the country, shutting down the Great Man-Made River water system, fueling widespread public anger in a country already divided between rival power centers. The Zawiya, Khoms and Ubari power plants went offline, with large parts of western and central Libya losing electricity. The Libya Herald reported that it was the third major blackout to hit western Libya in two days. The cause of Monday’s…

Libya’s electricity grid suffered another major collapse on Monday, knocking power plants offline across western, central and southern parts of the country, shutting down the Great Man-Made River water system, fueling widespread public anger in a country already divided between rival power centers. The Zawiya, Khoms and Ubari power plants went offline, with large parts of western and central Libya losing electricity. The Libya Herald reported that it was the third major blackout to hit western Libya in two days. The cause of Monday’s…

Libya’s electricity grid suffered another major collapse on Monday, knocking power plants offline across western, central and southern parts of the country, shutting down the Great Man-Made River water system, fueling widespread public anger in a country already divided between rival power centers. The Zawiya, Khoms and Ubari power plants went offline, with large parts of western and central Libya losing electricity. The Libya Herald reported that it was the third major blackout to hit western Libya in two days. The cause of Monday’s…

17 de agosto de 2026.- Más de 70 millones de personas están bajo alertas este día por una ola de calor en el sur de Estados Unidos que afecta en especial a Florida y estados de la frontera con México con récords y temperaturas de hasta 115 grados Fahrenheit (46 centígrados), avisó el Servicio Meteor...

17 de agosto de 2026.- A raíz del doblete sísmico que sacudió al país el pasado 24 de junio, grupos de ciberdelincuentes comenzaron a operar desde las sombras, instrumentalizando la angustia y el estrés colectivo para cometer delitos contra el patrimonio de los ciudadanos. Así lo mencionaron dura...