China has remained publicly silent after U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday urged Beijing to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz, the critical oil chokepoint that has been largely shut down during the escalating war with Iran. The standoff around the narrow waterway, through which roughly 20% of the world’s oil supply normally passes, has already sent crude and natural gas prices sharply higher, raising fears of a sustained disruption to global energy flows. According to reporting by the Associated Press, Chinese officials declined to directly…

China has remained publicly silent after U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday urged Beijing to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz, the critical oil chokepoint that has been largely shut down during the escalating war with Iran. The standoff around the narrow waterway, through which roughly 20% of the world’s oil supply normally passes, has already sent crude and natural gas prices sharply higher, raising fears of a sustained disruption to global energy flows. According to reporting by the Associated Press, Chinese officials declined to directly…

16 de marzo de 2026.- El Instituto de Ferrocarriles del Estado (IFE) informó que ha sido restablecido el servicio comercial entre las estaciones Cúa y La Rinconada, luego del accidente ocurrido en horas de la tarde del domingo en la terminal de Caracas. Mediante redes sociales se dio a conocer qu...

The world's largest single-site aluminium smelter in the Middle East cut its output by about 20% on Sunday, marking yet another troubling development for the global economy. The disruption in the Strait of Hormuz is no longer just an energy story - it's now spreading into industrial metals. These second- and third-order effects could soon disrupt global supply chains and tighten aluminium availability, thus pressuring prices higher.  Bloomberg reports that Aluminium Bahrain (Alba) began a controlled, safe shutdown of three reduction lines…

TotalEnergies expects first gas from the expansion of its Absheron gas and condensate field in Azerbaijan to flow in September 2029, the French supermajor said in an environmental impact assessment of the project’s expansion to phase two.  The Absheron Full Field Development Project envisages that the field, which started producing gas in 2023, add three subsea wells and a 143-km-long (89 miles), multiphase production pipeline delivering raw well fluids to an onshore Central Processing Facility (CPF) just southwest of the BP Sangachal…

TotalEnergies expects first gas from the expansion of its Absheron gas and condensate field in Azerbaijan to flow in September 2029, the French supermajor said in an environmental impact assessment of the project’s expansion to phase two.  The Absheron Full Field Development Project envisages that the field, which started producing gas in 2023, add three subsea wells and a 143-km-long (89 miles), multiphase production pipeline delivering raw well fluids to an onshore Central Processing Facility (CPF) just southwest of the BP Sangachal…

TotalEnergies expects first gas from the expansion of its Absheron gas and condensate field in Azerbaijan to flow in September 2029, the French supermajor said in an environmental impact assessment of the project’s expansion to phase two.  The Absheron Full Field Development Project envisages that the field, which started producing gas in 2023, add three subsea wells and a 143-km-long (89 miles), multiphase production pipeline delivering raw well fluids to an onshore Central Processing Facility (CPF) just southwest of the BP Sangachal…

El escenario geopolítico mundial ha pasado del campo de batalla físico a la "dimensión desconocida" de la Inteligencia Artificial. En las últimas 48 horas, el paradero del primer ministro israelí, Benjamin Netanyahu, se ha convertido en el enigma más grande del conflicto en Medio Ori...

Ukraine’s state energy company Naftogaz is in early-stage discussions with Romania’s OMV Petrom about jointly developing a potentially significant offshore gas discovery in the Black Sea, a project that could eventually strengthen Europe’s efforts to replace Russian gas supplies. According to a Reuters report, three industry sources said the talks relate to a field discovered by Naftogaz before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. One source described the discovery as “one of the most promising gas fields in the Black Sea…

Ukraine’s state energy company Naftogaz is in early-stage discussions with Romania’s OMV Petrom about jointly developing a potentially significant offshore gas discovery in the Black Sea, a project that could eventually strengthen Europe’s efforts to replace Russian gas supplies. According to a Reuters report, three industry sources said the talks relate to a field discovered by Naftogaz before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. One source described the discovery as “one of the most promising gas fields in the Black Sea…

Governments around the world are desperate to bring down oil prices in the wake of a cutoff of about one-fifth of the world's supply due to the Iran war. Here are some of the moves we've seen so far: The International Energy Agency, a consortium of 32 countries that coordinate energy policy and emergency readiness, called an emergency meeting to discuss the release of strategic petroleum reserves to ease prices. The countries agreed to a release of 400 million barrels from reserves held in underground caverns and above ground in storage tanks,…

El Clásico Mundial de Béisbol ha vivido un terremoto geopolítico en el diamante. La selección de Venezuela no solo venció a Japón con un marcador de 8-5, sino que terminó con una hegemonía de 11 victorias consecutivas de los nipones, dejando fuera de las semifinales al vigente campeón. Pero má...

The European Union foreign ministers are discussing on Monday the potential to move an already operational mission in the Middle East region to try to help unblock the Strait of Hormuz, the EU’s foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said ahead of the meeting.  “We will discuss the Middle East... And there, the main topic will be how to keep the Strait of Hormuz open,” Kallas said.  The EU, while receiving only 12% of Qatar’s LNG – which is now shut-in due to the war – is exposed to spiking natural gas prices…

The European Union foreign ministers are discussing on Monday the potential to move an already operational mission in the Middle East region to try to help unblock the Strait of Hormuz, the EU’s foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said ahead of the meeting.  “We will discuss the Middle East... And there, the main topic will be how to keep the Strait of Hormuz open,” Kallas said.  The EU, while receiving only 12% of Qatar’s LNG – which is now shut-in due to the war – is exposed to spiking natural gas prices…

Luego de eliminar a Japón, actuales campeones, Venezuela tratará hoy de meterse en la final, pero tendrá que romper la magia de Italia, la revelación en este VI Clásico Mundial de Béisbol. El partido de semifinales definirá quién enfrentará mañana a Estados Unidos, victorioso anoche...

There is an old military phrase that ‘no plan survives first contact with the enemy’, and it seems that Iran missed the memo on how it was meant to respond to the latest attacks on it by the U.S. and Israel. These, and the earlier attacks last year in the same vein, can be seen as an extension of the war effectively launched by Iran via its proxy Hamas’s murderous attacks of 7 October 2023 on Israel. In any event, wildcard factors are now in play that threaten sustained upheaval across the Middle East for years to come, and elevated…

El Ministerio de Salud de Irán informó este domingo que desde el 28 de febrero pasado, los ataques de Estados Unidos e Israel contra ese país provocaron la muerte de 223 mujeres y 202 niños. En su comunicado difundido por la prensa iraní, el Ministerio precisó que tres de las mujere...

En declaraciones a la prensa desde el Air Force One, el presidente de Estados Unidos (EEUU), Donald Trump, afirmó este domingo que Washington mantiene conversaciones con Irán. A la pregunta de un periodista sobre si su Administración está llevando a cabo algún contacto diplomático c...

El Instituto de Previsión y Asistencia Social para el Personal del Ministerio de Educación (Ipasme) entregó más de 10.000 unidades de medicamentos que serán destinadas al Hospital 10 de Octubre de Cuba. En la Casa Nuestra América José Martí se realizó la entrega simbólica, donde pro...

La presidenta Encargada de la República Bolivariana de Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, giró instrucciones a la ministra del Poder Popular para el Comercio Exterior, Coromoto Godoy, a consolidar mercados estratégicos para potenciar del Cacao y chocolate venezolano Asimismo, resaltó duran...