The United States has sanctioned Iraq’s deputy oil minister and several Iran-aligned militia leaders, stepping directly into a part of the oil trade that has been operating in the gray since the war began. The Treasury Department accused Deputy Oil Minister Ali Maarij Al-Bahadly of facilitating the diversion of Iraqi crude to benefit Iran and affiliated militias. The move also targets senior figures tied to Kata’ib Sayyid Al-Shuhada and Asa’ib Ahl Al-Haq. Any U.S. assets are frozen, and Americans are barred from doing business…

The United States has sanctioned Iraq’s deputy oil minister and several Iran-aligned militia leaders, stepping directly into a part of the oil trade that has been operating in the gray since the war began. The Treasury Department accused Deputy Oil Minister Ali Maarij Al-Bahadly of facilitating the diversion of Iraqi crude to benefit Iran and affiliated militias. The move also targets senior figures tied to Kata’ib Sayyid Al-Shuhada and Asa’ib Ahl Al-Haq. Any U.S. assets are frozen, and Americans are barred from doing business…

La presidenta encargada de la República, Delcy Rodríguez, instruyó este martes 5 de mayo un despliegue coordinado entre el ministro para Hábitat y Vivienda, Jorge Márquez, la alcaldesa de Caracas, Carmen Meléndez, y el jefe de Gobierno del Distrito Capital, Nahum Fernández. La orden central es...

7 de mayo de 2026.- Durante una entrevista en el programa "Primera Página", transmitido por Globovisión, el diputado a la Asamblea Nacional, Jesús Faría, aseguró que el Ejecutivo mantiene el compromiso de restablecer el salario como el elemento central de la remuneración de los trabajadores venezola...

La presidenta de México, Claudia Sheinbaum, lanzó este martes una dura crítica a la presidenta de la Comunidad de Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, quien se encuentra en México en una visita de 10 días que ha incluido un acto de reivindicación de la figura del conquistador Hernán Cortés. L...

While conventional wisdom, especially after Trump’s counter-blockade of Iran’s blockade, holds that the Strait of Hormuz is completely blocked, the reality is that the UAE is now running loaded crude tankers through the Iranian-controlled Strait of Hormuz with transponders switched off — just like sanctioned Iranian ghost fleets in the pre-war period — just to pry loose a fraction of the oil bottled up in the Gulf. According to shipping data reported by Reuters, industry sources, and satellite tracking, Emirati state-owned…

7 de mayo de 2026.- La presidenta encargada de la República, Delcy Rodríguez, encabezó una reunión estratégica con los integrantes de la Mesa de Diálogo Nacional para los Consensos Laborales y Sociales, siguiendo las directrices trazadas en el plan programático “Renacer 2026”. En la jornada parti...

BUENOS AIRES (AP) — Autoridades y expertos en Argentina intentan determinar si su país es el origen de un brote mortal de hantavirus que afecta a un crucero en el Atlántico. La emergencia sanitaria a bordo del barco, anclado al otro lado del océano, ocurre mientras el país sud...

Chinese fuel trader HY Energy is suing U.S. banking giants JP Morgan and Citigroup for blocked payments to a Chinese oil firm a year before the latter was sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury for dealing with Iranian oil, Bloomberg reports. HY Energy, a regional fuel trader in eastern China, alleges in two separate lawsuits filed in Shanghai and Beijing that JP Morgan and Citi failed to process and complete transfers for a total of $40 million to China Oil and Petroleum Company Limited (COPC) back in 2023. This was months before COPC was designated…

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7 de mayo de 2026.- El director general de la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, ofreció este jueves una rueda de prensa para informar de la situación del brote de hantavirus relacionado con el crucero MV Hondius de bandera neerlandesa que cubría la ruta entre Ushuai...

7 de mayo de 2026.- Organizaciones políticas, sindicales y estudiantiles italianas marcharon en Roma contra la visita del secretario de Estado norteamericano, Marco Rubio, y para condenar el bloqueo y las amenazas de agresión de Estados Unidos contra Cuba. Miles de manifestantes recorrieron en la...

The war in Iran and the subsequent loss of LNG supply from the Middle East are altering the medium-term outlook of global natural gas balances, with tighter markets set to last longer than previously expected, a senior official at the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Thursday. The Middle East crisis has resulted, so far, in the loss of about 120 billion cubic meters (bcm) of global LNG supply through 2030, Gergely Molnar, Energy Analyst – Natural Gas, at the IEA, said. Global LNG supplies have shrank by around 15% due to the conflict…

Global crude oil and fuel inventories are crashing at a record speed as the supply shock from the Middle East is too big to absorb without stock depletion. While the futures markets trade on sentiment and hopes that a U.S.-Iran deal could soon lead to the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, the actual physical disruption is enormous. It has already erased the oversupply that the market faced at the start of the Iran war. The initial buffers are gone, and now commercial inventories are depleting so fast that even an imminent reopening of the Strait…

The United States and Israel’s bombing campaign has left much of Iran’s infrastructure and industries in tatters, disrupting domestic production and hiking prices for basic food items.A US sea blockade has intensified the economic pressure on Iran, hampering its trade through the Strait of Hormuz, a key maritime chokepoint that has been effectively closed since the war began on February 28.In response, Tehran has turned to alternative routes, trucking goods from neighboring Pakistan and Turkey as well as shipping cargo from Russia,…

El canciller de Venezuela, Yván Gil, calificó como «agotador» que el Gobierno de Guyana recurra nuevamente a montajes y relatos falsos cuando ocurren procedimientos vinculados a la controversia territorial. Estas declaraciones surgen en respuesta a denuncias sobre presun...

Los inventarios de crudo y combustibles de Estados Unidos (EEUU) podrían alcanzar niveles críticos hacia el próximo 4 de julio. Jeff Currie, analista de la firma Carlyle, advirtió que el país se encuentra en un déficit energético debido al agotamiento progresivo de las reservas, en medio de la...

7 de mayo de 2026.- Este jueves, la Asamblea Nacional publicó la lista de preseleccionados para integrar el Comité de Postulaciones Judiciales. Este anuncio se produce tras culminar el proceso de evaluación, impugnaciones y verificación de requisitos establecidos en la Constitución de la Repúb...

El ministro de Relaciones Interiores, Justicia y Paz, Diosdado Cabello, alertó este miércoles que están por llegar a Venezuela 57 ondas tropicales, por lo que pidió al pueblo estar alerta ante la temporada de