There are signs that western measures and a domestic crackdown on Kyrgyzstan’s traditional banking sector are starting to bite, hindering Russian efforts to evade sanctions. Yet, booming transactions of a Kyrgyzstan-registered, ruble-linked cryptocurrency on a Kyrgyz exchange this spring indicate that sanctions-busters are still very active in the Central Asian nation. Russian entrepreneurs have complained in recent months that their transactions have grown more expensive or slowed after the United States and United Kingdom sanctioned a Kyrgyz…

31 de julio de 2025.- Cantv restableció los servicios de telecomunicaciones en los estados Apure, Guárico y Amazonas, luego de la afectación causada por la reciente crecida y desbordamiento del río Portuguesa en el sector La Negra, municipio Camaguán de la entidad guariqueña. El per...

Earlier this month, the U.S. Department of the Interior did something that just a couple of years ago would have been unthinkable. It permitted a coal mine in Tennessee. New coal mines are being approved around the world despite calls for a ban on the commodity. And this might yet intensify. Last year saw the slowest growth in global coal mine capacity since 2014, energy transition advocacy Global Energy Monitor reported earlier this week. Total new capacity that opened last year stood at 105 million tons, which was a 46% decline from the previous…

31 de julio de 2025.- Más de 14 mil litros de combustible de aviación fueron incautados en el estado Falcón durante un operativo realizado por los organismos de seguridad, como parte de las acciones llevadas a cabo contra los grupos estructurados de delincuencia organizada dedicados al tráfico ilíci...

On July 31 and August 1, hundreds of officials and politicians will gather in Finland to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Helsinki Final Act. That agreement was something of a high-water mark of the Cold War detente, with 35 countries -- including the Soviet Union and United States -- agreeing on numerous principles after two years of talks known as the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE). This would shape the geopolitical architecture of the wider European continent and laid the foundation for what became the Organization…

Low oil prices may be squeezing U.S. shale producers, but Interior Secretary Doug Burgum isn’t worried. In a new interview with The National’s Hadley Gamble, Burgum predicted that skyrocketing demand from the tech sector—particularly AI data centers—will be the next great engine of growth for the American energy industry. “The tech guys are becoming the biggest customers in the world for energy,” Burgum told Gamble during On the Record. “And it will only get bigger.” As chairman of President Trump’s…

La rectora de la Universidad Nacional Experimental de las Ciencias «Dr. Humberto Fernández-Morán» (UNC) y también ministra para Ciencia y Tecnología, Gabriela Jiménez Ramírez, ha firmado un importante acuerdo con el Centro Internacional para la Innovación en Educación Superior (UNE...

The state refiners in India have not purchased any crude from Russia this week after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened secondary tariffs on the buyers of Russian oil and as discounts of Moscow’s crudes narrowed to alternatives, industry sources with knowledge of the procurement plans told Reuters on Thursday.  Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IndianOil), Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL), Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL), and Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Limited (MRPL) have not attempted to buy crude…

Las compañías energéticas que operan en Brasil suspendieron los envíos de petróleo a EE.UU. después que el presidente Donald Trump anunciara aranceles de 50 % contra el país suramericano, explicó este miércoles Roberto Ardenghy, presidente del grupo de presión petrolero IBP, a la agencia Reute...

El Gobierno de Estados Unidos informó el martes que empezará a emitir anuncios en televisión y por Internet para promover que los migrantes indocumentados se autodeporten mediante la aplicación CBP Home. «Si eres un extranjero ilegal, esta pista de despegue es tu futuro»...

New Zealand reopens for oil and gas exploration after the country’s Parliament on Thursday voted to repeal a 2018 ban on offshore resource drilling.  Back in 2018, the center-left government of former Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern banned offshore oil and gas exploration to protect New Zealand from the effects of climate change and help it reach its net-zero goals.  The current coalition government has pushed for reversing the ban in a bid to strengthen New Zealand’s energy security and alleviate the cost of living crisis. …

New Zealand reopens for oil and gas exploration after the country’s Parliament on Thursday voted to repeal a 2018 ban on offshore resource drilling.  Back in 2018, the center-left government of former Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern banned offshore oil and gas exploration to protect New Zealand from the effects of climate change and help it reach its net-zero goals.  The current coalition government has pushed for reversing the ban in a bid to strengthen New Zealand’s energy security and alleviate the cost of living crisis. …

John McNamara, es un diplomático neoyorquino con más de 2 décadas de experiencia en el Servicio Exterior, asumió como Encargado de Negocios, ad interim, de la Oficina Externa de Estados Unidos para Venezuela (VAU) en Bogotá el 1 de febrero de 2025. Su trayectoria incluye roles en Am...

Keith Kellogg, Trump's special envoy to Russia and Ukraine, has freshly warned in newly published comments that oil sanctions will have a serious and hard-hitting economic impact if properly enforced - though they haven't been up till now, he suggested. His prediction comes after President Trump's announcement early this week that he would shorten Russia’s deadline to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine down to ten days from the previous 50. "We haven’t really applied full pressure on the oil sector yet," Kellogg said on The Record…

El presidente brasileño, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, ha convocado una reunión urgente con su gabinete ministerial este miércoles, ante el aumento de tensiones con Estados Unidos. La medida sigue a la decisión del presidente Donald Trump de aplicar un arancel del 50% a productos brasileños, junt...

El Grupo de Amigos en Defensa de la Carta de las Naciones Unidas demandó ante la Organización de Naciones Unidas (ONU) la urgente necesidad de adoptar hoy medidas decisivas para lograr la paz justa y duradera en Palestina. Al intervenir en la Conferencia Internacional de Alto Nivel sob...

Rising prices of Middle Eastern crudes have opened the arbitrage window for West Texas Intermediate (WTI) to flow to Asia, which is set to buy higher volumes of the U.S. crude grade in the coming weeks, trade sources have told Reuters.    Key grades from the Middle East, such as Dubai and Murban, have seen their prices rise in recent weeks on the back of strong demand for high-sulfur crude in Asia and reduced shipments of Murban. Moreover, the prices for Middle Eastern crudes going to Asia have jumped this week amid concerns that…

Rising prices of Middle Eastern crudes have opened the arbitrage window for West Texas Intermediate (WTI) to flow to Asia, which is set to buy higher volumes of the U.S. crude grade in the coming weeks, trade sources have told Reuters.    Key grades from the Middle East, such as Dubai and Murban, have seen their prices rise in recent weeks on the back of strong demand for high-sulfur crude in Asia and reduced shipments of Murban. Moreover, the prices for Middle Eastern crudes going to Asia have jumped this week amid concerns that…

La zona norte costera y la Faja Central del territorio nacional amanece con concentraciones de leves a moderadas de Polvo del Sahara; además de situación atmosférica originada por la Zona de Convergencia Intertropical y la Vaguada Monzónica, estará reforzada por efectos convectivos locales.

El presidente Nicolás Maduro este miércoles, hizo un llamado a la oposición democrática para el diálogo y el trabajo mancomunado, luego de las elecciones municipales celebradas el pasado domingo. En referencia a los alcaldes opositores electos "en muy importantes municipios del...