Es 28 de agosto de 2025. Han transcurrido 238 días del año y faltan 127 días para su terminación. Hoy es jueves. Las efemérides se refieren a sucesos, celebraciones o conmemoraciones significativas para un área del conocimiento, la cultura y las artes, la historia o la cienci...

Falleció el día de ayer, 27 de agosto, en la ciudad de Caracas el gran actor y director teatral Guillermo Díaz Yuma, miembro fundador del Taller Experimental de Teatro,TET, tras padecer de un cáncer. Tenía 75 años de edad. Yuma, galardonado con el Premio Nacional de Cultura, mención...

28 de agosto de 2025.- Una jueza federal en Miami rechazó suspender su orden que exige el desmantelamiento del centro de detención de migrantes en los Everglades de Florida, conocido como "Alcatraz de los Caimanes", al tiempo que el gobierno federal apela su fallo. Los abogados del Departamento d...

Global energy company Natpower is set to dwarf a key Labour investment in battery storage development as it said £1bn would be injected into one of the largest storage sites in the UK.  The new battery storage project on Sembcorp Utilities’ Wilton International Site near Middlesbrough will receive £1bn in private funding with “no government contracts required”.  Natpower UK has said the site will deliver one of the highest capacity projects for battery energy storage in the UK, with duration and capacity…

Phillips 66 will begin shutting down its 139,000 bpd Los Angeles-area refinery as soon as next week, sources told Reuters, moving forward on a closure plan announced last year. Units at the plant will idle in phases through Q4 2025, with the facility permanently offline by year-end. The decision isn’t a surprise—Phillips 66 said in October it would exit the site, citing “market dynamics.” But it comes with fallout: about 600 employees and 300 contractors will lose their jobs by December, with only a handful reassigned to…

Phillips 66 will begin shutting down its 139,000 bpd Los Angeles-area refinery as soon as next week, sources told Reuters, moving forward on a closure plan announced last year. Units at the plant will idle in phases through Q4 2025, with the facility permanently offline by year-end. The decision isn’t a surprise—Phillips 66 said in October it would exit the site, citing “market dynamics.” But it comes with fallout: about 600 employees and 300 contractors will lose their jobs by December, with only a handful reassigned to…

28 de agosto de 2025.- Entre 2022 y 2025 las exportaciones de Venezuela a Colombia aumentaron en un 92%, según informó el director de la agencia Procolombia, Carlos Luna, quien agregó que para el mismo periodo las exportaciones colombianas hacia Venezuela crecieron en un 300%. De acuerdo con Luna...

Jueves, 28 de agosto de 2025. Maria Teresa Aya, analista internacional de Noticias Caracol entrevistó al profesor Andrés Molano quien se pregunta si será el fin de Maduro. [yt=iKmC5Y18Gy0]...

The West has moved fast on Syria in the wake of Assad's ouster - first lifting most sanctions and now ensuring oil and gas are tapped and get flowing again. The brutal sanctions served to punish the broader Syrian population for many years. It underscores once again that the disastrous war was really about externally-driven regime change and installing a more malleable puppet government - which turned out to be essentially Al Qaeda in suits.  Bloomberg is reporting that the Switzerland-based Vitol Group, which is the largest independent oil…

28 de agosto de 2025.- Este jueves, la ministra de Relaciones Exteriores de Colombia, Rosa Villavicencio, informó que mantuvo comunicación con representantes de la embajada de Estados Unidos respecto al reciente despliegue militar del Gobierno estadounidense en el Caribe. La funcionaria afirmó qu...

Exxon projects global natural gas demand will rise more than 20% by 2050 from 2024 levels, driven by coal displacement in industry and growing electricity use in emerging markets, according to a Reuters report. The outlook underpins Exxon’s long-term strategy, including an 18% production increase over five years. Oil demand is expected to plateau after 2030 but remain above 100 million barrels per day through 2050, while oil and gas together hold around 55% of the global energy mix, the report said. The company frames gas as a key transition…

Exxon projects global natural gas demand will rise more than 20% by 2050 from 2024 levels, driven by coal displacement in industry and growing electricity use in emerging markets, according to a Reuters report. The outlook underpins Exxon’s long-term strategy, including an 18% production increase over five years. Oil demand is expected to plateau after 2030 but remain above 100 million barrels per day through 2050, while oil and gas together hold around 55% of the global energy mix, the report said. The company frames gas as a key transition…

Exxon projects global natural gas demand will rise more than 20% by 2050 from 2024 levels, driven by coal displacement in industry and growing electricity use in emerging markets, according to a Reuters report. The outlook underpins Exxon’s long-term strategy, including an 18% production increase over five years. Oil demand is expected to plateau after 2030 but remain above 100 million barrels per day through 2050, while oil and gas together hold around 55% of the global energy mix, the report said. The company frames gas as a key transition…

28 de agosto de 2025.- El canciller Bruno Rodríguez recalcó hoy el rechazo enérgico de Cuba al despliegue militar de Estados Unidos en el mar Caribe, un acto peligroso que amenaza la soberanía y autodeterminación de los países latinoamericanos, aseveró. A través de la red social X, el titular cub...

Jueves, 28 de agosto de 2025.- En su editorial de ayer miércoles 27 Lijalad reportó la presencia de jubilados protestando frente al Palacio de La presidencia de la República Argentina, donde a pesar de la represión constante los adultos mayores hacen presencia y reclaman sus derechos. Para aquel...

Nuclear batteries are not a new invention, but they’ve fallen out of commercial favor since the 70s, when they were used in pacemakers. Nuclear batteries were an ideal solution for these medical devices due to their longevity, but were ultimately eliminated due to governmental unease about radioactive isotopes walking out into the world untracked and unreturned. Now, a new generation of scientists is working on the return of the nuclear battery, but this time with a much broader variety of applications. The science behind nuclear batteries…

28 de agosto de 2025.- Efectivos de la Guardia Nacional Bolivariana (GNB) detectaron y destruyeron un centro de comunicaciones que era empleado por el narcotráfico en el estado Zulia. La infraestructura estaba ubicada en el sector Los Jovitos, municipio Miranda (Los Puertos de Altagracia), Zulia,...

28 de agosto de 2025.- La asamblea General de las Naciones Unidas aprobó una resolución para crear el Panel Científico Internacional Independiente y Multidisciplinario sobre Inteligencia Artificial (IA). El secretario general de la ONU, António Guterres, dijo en un comunicado que se trata de “un ...

Back in 2019, Malaysia, Vietnam and the Philippines famously banned DreamWorks’ and Pearl Studio’s joint film Abominable from cinemas for featuring a scene with a map of China's controversial U-shaped nine-dash line, China’s symbolic claim to sovereignty over almost all of the South China Sea. China’s territorial claims to roughly 90% of the South China Sea, including the Paracel and Spratly Islands, encompasses both naturally formed and artificial islands, as well as areas China deems "historic waters". However, a 2016…

ExxonMobil has decided it’s time to play teacher. In its freshly minted Global Outlook, the U.S. supermajor offered a chapter called “Lessons from Europe”—and the grading isn’t pretty. The EU’s climate policies, Exxon argues, are a cautionary tale of what happens when governments push through decarbonization with heavy regulation and magical thinking. The report claims that Europe’s “high-regulation, high-cost” climate crusade has hobbled industry, pushed up energy prices, and weakened public…