29 de diciembre de 2025.-Con un despliegue en el territorio, la Fuerza Azul de Cantv brindó respuesta efectiva a más de 23 mil reportes generados a través de la VenApp del sistema 1x10 del Buen Gobierno durante el 2025, lo que representa el 96% de los casos reportados, informó Comunicaciones E...

Türkiye’s state-run energy champion Turkish Petroleum Corporation (TPAO) is on track to dramatically scale up production, with daily oil and gas output expected to reach around 500,000 barrels by 2028, Energy and Natural Resources Minister Alparslan Bayraktar said this week. Speaking to local media, Bayraktar said the projection is based on current reserves and ongoing developments, but stressed that Ankara’s longer-term ambition is even larger. The government ultimately wants TPAO to become a one-million-barrel-per-day producer,…

Rare earth elements (REEs) are the backbone of modern technology, from EV motors and wind turbines to smartphones and precision-guided systems. This map, via Visual Capitalist's Bruno Venditti, breaks down where the world’s known rare earth reserves are located in 2025, highlighting how concentrated they are across a handful of countries. The data for this visualization comes from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). The distribution is highly uneven. China alone holds nearly half of the global total, followed by Brazil’s…

Chevron has unloaded Venezuelan crude oil at U.S. ports under its existing Treasury licence, according to a Bloomberg report on Monday, even as U.S. enforcement actions disrupt other Venezuelan export routes and tighten pressure on unauthorised shipments. Bloomberg did not disclose the number of cargoes involved or the timing of the deliveries. The arrivals come as Washington steps up interdictions targeting Venezuelan oil flows outside approved channels, drawing a clear distinction between Chevron’s licensed operations and exports handled…

West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil prices were up 2.5% in Monday trading at 2:42 p.m. ET, reaching $58.17, as tensions flared in Yemen and hopes for a peace deal on the Russia-Ukraine front dissipated following unsuccessful talks between Kyiv and Washington.  In Yemen, the Saudi-led coalition has vowed to retaliate against any military ‌moves by the main southern separatist group backed by the UAE, the Saudi state news agency reported on Saturday. Last week, an escalation of fighting killed two people from the separatist group. Meanwhile,…

JP Morgan congeló cuentas como medida preventiva ante posibles vínculos con sanciones. La medida refleja presión de organismos como la OFAC sobre bancos globales. JP Morgan fue el banco estadounidense que congeló las cuentas bancarias de la startup Kontigo que da soporte ...

El ministro de Relaciones Exteriores ruso, Serguéi Lavrov, denunció que el régimen de Kiev, intentó atacar con más de 90 drones una residencia oficial del presidente de Rusia, Vladímir Putin. «En la noche del 28 al 29 de diciembre, el régimen de Kiev llevó a cabo un ataque ter...

2025 was the year artificial intelligence (AI) took the driver’s seat, literally. Not just in boardrooms or on trading floors, but increasingly on the tarmac, in showrooms, and behind the wheel itself. From record-breaking EV sales in the UK and Europe to autonomous taxis navigating San Francisco streets and preparing to arrive in London next year, the automotive world shifted into a new era. The technology set the pace, but human decisions in policy, investment, and adoption alike determined whether the ride would be smooth or bumpy. Britain…

Iran’s Central Bank governor Mohammad Reza Farzin stepped down on Monday after protests erupted in Tehran and other cities following a sharp collapse in the rial. The currency plunged on Sunday to around 1.42 million rials per dollar on the free market before stabilizing slightly at about 1.38 million on Monday. For perspective, Iran’s currency traded at roughly 32,000 rials per dollar when Tehran signed the JCPOA nuclear accord in 2015 under then-U.S. President Barack Obama. Iran's economy has been grappling with major challenges,…

En la ciudad capital se han conformado 102 consejos campesinos que posicionaron a Caracas como una región que logró producir 5.860 toneladas de hortalizas, frutas, legumbres, café y proteínas este 2025, para distribuir en Clap, mercados parroquiales, ferias, escuelas y hospitales. L...

2025 has proven to be an annus horribilis for clean energy after Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) rolled back major tax credits and imposed new restrictions, pressuring early-stage solar and wind energy pipelines. Indeed, a Cleanview analysis of U.S. power projects has revealed that developers have cancelled 1,891 power projects with a combined 266 GW of generation capacity in the current year, including 86,466 MW of solar power, 79,045 MW of storage and 54,328 MW of wind power projects. Meanwhile, Europe has witnessed disappointing…

Following the Ukrainian drone attack that damaged a key export terminal on Russia’s Black Sea at end-November, Kazakhstan’s crude and condensate production has fallen by 6% so far in December compared to the average output in November, an anonymous industry source told Reuters on Monday.  A Ukrainian attack damaged infrastructure through which the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) exports most of Kazakhstan’s oil near the Russian port of Novorossiysk on the Black Sea.  Oil has continued to flow, but at lower rates, while…

With a two-month "quarantine" placed on Venezuelan oil by the Trump administration in a foreign policy move called "gunboat diplomacy," new data estimate that roughly $900 million worth of crude is currently loaded on tankers, unable to depart Venezuela due to the U.S. blockade. "Based on our visual analysis from both shore and space, we estimate that there are around 17.5 million barrels of crude oil floating onboard tankers in Venezuela which are unable to depart due to the ongoing US blockade," independent research Tanker Trackers wrote on X.…

The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine, which has been under Russian control since early 2022, could resume operations within a year and a half after a potential end to the war, the head of the plant’s Russian operating company said on Monday.  “If this (the end of the conflict) happens tomorrow, we will be ready to start up in mid-2027,” Ramil Galiyev, CEO of the Zaporizhzhya NPP Operating Organization, said, as carried by Russia’s state news agency RIA.  The Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant is not operational…

La violencia no da tregua en la costa ecuatoriana. Cerca de las 09:00 locales del domingo 28 de diciembre de 2025, el malecón de Puerto López se convirtió en el escenario de una nueva tragedia. Varios hombres armados con fusiles automáticos, que se desplazaban en una camioneta y dos motociclet...

CNOOC Ltd, China’s top offshore crude oil and natural gas producer, has announced the discovery of a major new oilfield in the Bohai Sea.  The Qinhuangdao 29-6 discovery in the shallow Neogene formations of the Bohai Sea is yet another oilfield estimated to hold more than 100 million tons of crude, or about 730 million barrels, and discovered by CNOOC recently, the company said.   Through continued exploration, the proved in-place volume of Qinhuangdao 29-6 Oilfield has exceeded 100 million tons of oil equivalent.  The…

Una jornada de luto envuelve al proyecto ferroviario más importante del sureste mexicano. El Tren Interoceánico de pasajeros, pieza clave del Corredor Multimodal que conecta el Pacífico con el Atlántico, sufrió un fatal descarrilamiento la mañana del domingo en las inmediaciones de la comunida...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy concluded his talks with US President Donald Trump without a peace deal, but he said US and Ukrainian teams will meet again soon and that a gathering of leaders -- including those from Europe -- will be held in Washington next month. Zelenskyy, on December 28, posted on social media that "we had a substantive discussion on all issues," including matters concerning all-important security guarantees, at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida. "We discussed all the aspects of the peace framework and…

Un bebé de dos meses falleció en la ciudad de Gaza a causa del frío y en medio de las incesantes lluvias que afectan a la Franja palestina, informó este lunes el Ministerio de Sanidad gazatí, que eleva a tres el número de recién nacidos muertos por hipotermia desde que comenzó la temporada de ...

Daniel Dale de CNN diseccionó sin piedad a Donald Trump enumerando sus 25 "principales mentiras de 2025". En un análisis escrito el 27 de diciembre, el verificador de datos detalló todas las falsedades que Trump difundió este año, bromeando que era difícil reducirlas a "solo 25". En...