The United States is extending by a month through May 1, 2026, the deadline for potential buyers to negotiate buying the foreign assets of Russia's second-biggest oil producer, Lukoil, which the U.S. sanctioned in October to force Russia to negotiate peace in Ukraine. The U.S. Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) authorized in a new general license negotiations of potential deals until May 1, provided that such agreements are approved by the OFAC in separate authorizations. Earlier this year, Lukoil announced it had agreed to sell…

US President Donald Trump has renewed his warning to Tehran to reach a deal to end the war soon and open the Strait of Hormuz, or he will order air strikes with the aim of "completely obliterating" Iran's oil export hub of Kharg Island, oil wells, and power plants. For the second day in a row, the US leader said a deal is likely at hand, but he also said in a social media post on March 30 that "if for any reason a deal is not shortly reached" US forces will react " by blowing up and completely obliterating all of their Electric Generating Plants,…

Coal is back with a bang in Asia’s power generation, as countries scramble to contain the LNG supply shortage due to the war in the Middle East. Coal hasn’t really left most Asian economies, which rely on the fuel for much of their power generation. Amid the squeeze of natural gas supply due to the de facto closed Strait of Hormuz and the sky-rocketing LNG prices that few buyers in Asia can afford, nations are scrapping previous restraints to the use of coal-fired power generation. Developed economies like Japan and South Korea are…

Este martes durante la mañana se estima que prevalezca cielo con nubosidad fragmentada, al alternar con nubosidad parcial en gran parte del país. Asimismo, se prevén eventos nubosos con precipitaciones de intensidad variable y algunas descargas eléctricas, en zonas de la Guayana Esequiba, Delt...

La presidenta de México, Claudia Sheinbaum, se pronunció este lunes a favor de que se utilicen recursos del Estado venezolano para costear la defensa legal del jefe de Estado, Nicolás Maduro. Durante su habitual rueda de prensa, la mandataria cuestionó las restricciones financieras ...