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A failure to fully acknowledge the extent of Europe’s energy insecurities could lead to national security vulnerabilities, according to former United States Secretary of State John Kerry. NATO’s summit in Ankara, Türkiye this month displayed a recommitment to cohesion and cooperation against the backdrop of ongoing conflicts in Ukraine and Iran, but contained almost no mention of the energy crises that these conflicts have wrought, and the huge impact that the ensuing energy insecurity has on the continents’ ability to defend…

El Pentágono dijo haber bombardeado decenas de objetivos de la Guardia Revolucionaria Islámica en Irán, incluidos centros de mando militar e instalaciones de drones, en represalia por los ataques iraníes contra bases militares estadounidenses en Jordania. Según medios estatales iraníes, una pa...

Desde el BHP reafirmamos nuestro compromiso histórico con la soberanía nacional y popular, la defensa irrestricta de la independencia y el...

Delcy Rodríguez señaló que subsidio variará entre 80% y 50% La Presidenta de la República Bolivariana de Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, detalló este martes el plan de financiamiento para la compra de viviendas usadas, con dos esquemas de subsidio a través del Fondo Venezuela Renace par...

Saudi Arabia’s quarterly budget deficit shrank by nearly three-quarters in the second quarter, courtesy of the same war that hammered its oil industry and sent the economy into its steepest contraction since the pandemic. The Kingdom posted a 34.3-billion-riyal—or $9.1-billion—shortfall for the three months through June, down from 125.7 billion riyals in the first quarter, according to the finance ministry. Oil revenue rose 28% from the previous quarter as crude prices jumped. As for spending, it fell 3.5%. War, as it turns out,…

Saudi Arabia’s quarterly budget deficit shrank by nearly three-quarters in the second quarter, courtesy of the same war that hammered its oil industry and sent the economy into its steepest contraction since the pandemic. The Kingdom posted a 34.3-billion-riyal—or $9.1-billion—shortfall for the three months through June, down from 125.7 billion riyals in the first quarter, according to the finance ministry. Oil revenue rose 28% from the previous quarter as crude prices jumped. As for spending, it fell 3.5%. War, as it turns out,…

La derecha responde con un populismo punitivo.

30 de julio de 2026.- Un estudio nacional elaborado por la consultora QSocial reveló que el 50 por ciento de los argentinos no está dispuesto a seguir esperando mejoras en su economía personal bajo las políticas de ajuste implementadas por el presidente Javier Milei. La investigación, realizada s...

NACIONES UNIDAS (IPS) El senador Joseph R. McCarthy (republicano por Kansas) saltó a la fama en la década de 1950 con sus acusaciones de que cientos de «comunistas» se habían infiltrado en el Departamento de Estado y otras agencias federales de Estados Unidos. Avancemos ...

Jueves, 30 de julio de 2026.- INFORMATIVO: Irán destruye varios F-35 de EEUU, China responde a la amenaza de Trump y Rusia alerta. Irán asegura haber atacado la base aérea de Al Azraq, en Jordania, y afirma que varios cazas estadounidenses F-35 resultaron gravemente dañados. L...

Shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz slightly increased as US-Iran negotiations remained ongoing in an effort to restore peace after the memorandum of understanding collapsed amid two weeks of tit-for-tat strikes, according to Pakistan's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Tahir Andrabi, who provided no further details. Still, the security situation in the Gulf deteriorated overnight after the US launched a new wave of strikes on Iran following attacks on US forces in Jordan. Additionally, reports emerged that a US-owned LNG vessel was struck…

30 de julio de 2026.- Grecia continúa hoy en alerta máxima por el elevado riesgo de incendios forestales. Los fuertes vientos, con rachas de hasta setenta kilómetros por hora, y las altas temperaturas están complicando las labores de extinción, especialmente en la isla de Creta, donde el fuego sigue...

30 de julio de 2026.- El Comité Judicial del Senado de Estados Unidos aplazó el miércoles (29.07.2026) la votación sobre la nominación de Todd Blanche como fiscal general, después de que dos senadores republicanos reclamaran más información al Departamento de Justicia antes de decidir su voto. Lo...

China’s trade turnover with Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, the largest economies in Central Asia, showed strong growth in the first half of 2026, as did trade with Tajikistan. Meanwhile, the numbers for Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan fell, according to the PRC’s General Administration of Customs.   China’s overall trade with the region showed a year-on-year increase of 6.5 percent, rising from $49,70 billion in the first half of 2025 to $52.94 billion during the same period this year. The…

Russia is running short of undamaged oil refinery capacity, and it’s looking to Kazakhstan for help. Kazakhstan said Thursday that it is in talks with Moscow to process Russian oil at Kazakh refineries, sell some of the resulting fuel domestically, and send a portion back across the border to Russia. No volumes, commercial terms, or refineries have been named. Kazakhstan’s Energy Ministry said market participants would decide where the products go. For Kazakhstan, Russian crude would help keep its refineries running at stable rates…

Russia is running short of undamaged oil refinery capacity, and it’s looking to Kazakhstan for help. Kazakhstan said Thursday that it is in talks with Moscow to process Russian oil at Kazakh refineries, sell some of the resulting fuel domestically, and send a portion back across the border to Russia. No volumes, commercial terms, or refineries have been named. Kazakhstan’s Energy Ministry said market participants would decide where the products go. For Kazakhstan, Russian crude would help keep its refineries running at stable rates…

30 de julio de 2026.- Los quince países que integran el Consejo de Seguridad de la ONU, inician el sondeo informal, conocido como sondeos para la escogencia del nuevo secretario general de la organización. De acuerdo al protocolo los miembros del consejo reciben una papeleta en la que dejarán pla...

U.S. refineries are producing the most gasoline and diesel since before the pandemic lockdowns, refining margins are running at record highs, but the world is still short on fuels. And it would take a while—and maybe a peace deal in the Middle East—before the situation changes. Fuel shortages are the more important oil crisis because it is fuels that the world consumes, not unrefined crude oil. Yet ever since the U.S. and Israel launched their first strikes on Iran at the end of February, it is crude oil prices that have been hogging…

The US economy grew at a far weaker than expected pace in the second quarter despite a pickup in consumer spending and solid business investment. According to the BEA, GDP (inflation adjusted) rose just 1.5% in the period, according to the first estimate issued Thursday by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. This was well below the 2.0% median estimate.  The contributors to the increase in real GDP in the second quarter were increases in consumer spending, investment, and exports that were partly offset by a decrease in government spending. A…