20 de octubre de 2026.-En el marco de la Consulta Nacional sobre la Reforma de la Justicia Penal y el compromiso se seguir fortaleciendo las capacidades de atención y respuesta a las víctimas de violencia basada en género, el Fiscal General de la República, Larry Devoe Márquez, se reunió este ...

Taiwan is the next pressure point that will test China's weaponization of rare earth metals. When Japan indicated it would not remain neutral in a Taiwan conflict, Beijing responded by sharply restricting exports of several heavy rare earth materials, including dysprosium and terbium. Japan was the test case. With U.S.-China tensions escalating, a confrontation could likely lead to an immediate blockade of Chinese rare earths to American markets, pressuring U.S. defense without firing a single shot. From a defense perspective, it would be disastrous…

Recently, we reported that the Middle East conflict and subsequent closure of the Strait of Hormuz has triggered an unprecedented spike in freight and shipping rates, with Very Large Crude Carrier (VLCC) spot rates now exceeding $1 million per day. The sharp spike is now reshaping oil flows and forcing producers to cut prices in a bid to help buyers offset extra transport costs. The situation is a little different in Brazil, where the offshore sector is facing a potential vessel shortage as demand outruns supply amid the offshore oil boom, positioning…

Destaca un aumento en el valor de las viviendas y en los ingresos 20 de octubre de 2026.'Trump revive su propuesta de darle a Nuevo México un aire más patriótico, a pesar de que la gobernadora del estado ya había rechazado la idea, calificándola de maniobra política, informó Not...

Mexico’s state power utility is today set to greenlight as many as 60 alternative energy projects, most of them solar, that should add 8.2 GW in new generation capacity to the country’s total, according to an unnamed source that spoke to Bloomberg. The total investment in these projects could reach $12.5 billion. The projects set to be approved by the Federal Electricity Commission today may end up being fewer than 60, another source told Bloomberg, also wishing to remain unnamed. However many do get approved, they will go towards reaching…

Caracas 20 de octubre de 2026.- La revisión de la base de cálculo de los aguinaldos, la recuperación de beneficios laborales y la discusión de una nueva convención colectiva figuran entre las principales propuestas de la plancha 7, Acción con ...

20 de octubre de 2026.-Más de 1.000 suscriptores del estado Sucre recuperaron los servicios de telefonía fija e Internet durante septiembre, tras las labores de mantenimiento y reparación ejecutadas por las cuadr...

Despite weakening industrial activity and high energy costs, European electricity demand is bucking years of flailing power consumption. Rising electrification rates and the data center boom are the key drivers of this new trend in Europe’s power demand, which is set to gather momentum in the coming years amid the EU’s energy transition and the global AI boom. Europe’s electricity demand growth is nowhere near the pace seen in the United States and China in recent years, but it’s a marked shift nevertheless, after years…

Inflation rates remain blistering high across the United States. The Bureau of Labor Statistics’s most recent Consumer Price Index, released last week, revealed numbers that were higher than most projections, indicating long-term pain for consumers and a nightmare election cycle for Donald Trump. And the reason for all of it is huge and persistent volatility in global oil and gas markets.  The October 14 Consumer Price Index showed that overall, prices for goods and services across the United States have risen 3.7 percent over the last…

The American Petroleum Institute (API) estimated that crude oil inventories in the United States fell by 4.93 million barrels in the week ending October 16. In the week prior, US crude oil inventories fell by a staggering 11.12 million barrels. Commercial crude oil inventories excluding the SPR have lost more than 56 million barrels over the last 27 weeks, but US crude inventories are still only 5 million barrels below where they were at the beginning of the year, according to API data, kept in check in part thanks to draws from the SPR. For the…

The American Petroleum Institute (API) estimated that crude oil inventories in the United States fell by 4.93 million barrels in the week ending October 16. In the week prior, US crude oil inventories fell by a staggering 11.12 million barrels. Commercial crude oil inventories excluding the SPR have lost more than 56 million barrels over the last 27 weeks, but US crude inventories are still only 5 million barrels below where they were at the beginning of the year, according to API data, kept in check in part thanks to draws from the SPR. For the…

20 de octubre de 2026.- Las inundaciones y tormentas que azotaron el este de España han dejado al menos cuatro muertos, mientras que más de 80.000 personas siguen sujetas a órdenes de permanecer en sus casas. En algunos casos, las autoridades tuvieron que recurrir a helicópteros para rescatar a resi...

A new Middle East energy system came into view at the Energy Trading Week Middle East conference in Dubai last month. The region’s world’s-lowest costs for solar energy appeared with enormous potential to transform how countries consume and export energy in low-carbon products. “Renewable power is actually very competitive now, so the spotlight for this region when it comes to energy transition is around three low carbon products," said Saravanan Manivel, Director for Low Carbon Fuels at ENGIE Global Energy Management & Sales.…

20 de octubre de 2026.- La policía disparó gas lacrimógeno y utilizó cañones de agua para hacer retroceder a los manifestantes este martes, en el octavo día consecutivo de violentas protestas antigubernamentales en la capital albanesa, Tirana, marcadas por la tensión y sin visos de que vaya a cesar ...

In October 2025, the PKK (Partiya Karkerên Kurdistanê, Kurdistan Workers' Party) announced it was withdrawing its fighters from Türkiye to northern Iraq as part of a peace effort with Ankara after four decades of hostilities. The statement said all PKK forces in Türkiye were being pulled back to northern Iraq "to avoid clashes or provocations." This followed the group's May 2025 decision to dissolve and a July ceremony where fighters burned their weapons. In late 2025 the PKK also said it had pulled out of the Zap border…

Norway’s oil and gas production declined sharply in September, with natural gas output falling 12.6% from August, according to preliminary figures released Tuesday by the Norwegian Offshore Directorate (NOD). Total petroleum production averaged approximately 3.77 million barrels of oil equivalent per day (boepd), down 10.4% month-on-month and 4% below the directorate’s forecast. The decline comes at a sensitive time for European energy markets, with the winter heating season approaching and Norway remaining the continent’s largest…

20 de octubre de 2026.- Este día se impusieron nuevos toques de queda en los centros de París y Lyon, tras registrarse la primera noche de calma desde que comenzaran los disturbios más destructivos vistos en Francia en años. Por su parte, el primer ministro Sébastien Lecornu anunció que se preparó u...

Geothermal has long been the clean, firm power source that was always a few breakthroughs away from being cheap enough to matter. Numbers buried in a Nevada utility filing suggest that day may have arrived. Joel Edwards, co-founder and CTO of geothermal developer Zanskar, put it bluntly earlier this month: "to all the geothermal believers out there, the flippening has come." In NV Energy's 2026 resource plan, three geothermal offers came in at $105 to $107 per megawatt-hour. That's below the roughly $114/MWh capacity-weighted average for the 11…

20 de octubre de 2026.- En un escenario esperado, la Asamblea Nacional (cámara baja francesa) se convirtió hoy en un campo de batalla de argumentos entre el gobierno y los parlamentarios en torno a reciente protestas y posteriores saqueos. Manuel Bompard, diputado de La Francia Insumisa (LFI), ac...

The European Union reaffirmed its opposition to Arctic oil and gas development on Tuesday, even as the bloc prepares for another expensive winter with depleted gas storage and prices approaching levels last seen during the 2022 energy crisis. The European Commission's new Arctic strategy calls for keeping oil, coal, and gas reserves in the ground, including in Arctic regions, and preventing hydrocarbon developments that threaten the Arctic ecosystem. Brussels did make one concession. The new strategy drops a 2021 pledge to pursue an international…