Ángel Marcano resaltó la fuerza de las comunas Piar 13 de febrero de 2025.- El gobernador del estado Bolívar, Ángel Marcano, realizó un encuentro de Circuitos Comunales en el parque Bicentenario Alejandro Otero de Upata, municipio Piar, donde resaltó la importancia del...

Mozambique LNG, a project with a price tag of $20 billion, may never see the light of day despite the bullish outlook for LNG demand. It seems that not everyone has heard the news that the world is going to need even more LNG in the future. Work on Mozambique LNG has been suspended since 2021 when project lead TotalEnergies declared force majeure on work on the facility amid intensified fighting between local political factions. Now, it is planning a restart—and it is facing the consequences of years of transition campaigning. First, at the…

A far-reaching nature assessment that was approved by the Biden administration in 2022 has been halted by President Donald Trump just weeks before its completion. This follows recent decisions by Trump to take the United States out of the Paris climate agreement and halt climate spending, as well as to limit the powers of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). It is so far uncertain whether the assessment will go ahead and what impact this may have on environmental protection and climate progress.   In 2022, the U.S. Office of…

Impulso a la soberanía agroalimentaria 13 de febrero de 2025.-En un esfuerzo por fortalecer la soberanía y seguridad agroalimentaria en el marco del plan de las 7 transformaciones impulsado por el presidente Nicolás Maduro, el gobernador Jehyson Guzmán, a través de la Secretaría Sec...

All eyes will be on southern Germany this weekend as world leaders assemble at the Hotel Bayerischer Hof for the three-day Munich Security Conference. And while there will be plenty of official statements and high-level discussions, perhaps the most important talks -- about Ukraine's future -- will take place on the sidelines. Much of the discussion leading up to the conference, has been about whether U.S. President Donald Trump's envoy for Russia and Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, would present a much-anticipated peace plan in the Bavarian capital. Kellogg…

Jueves, 14 de febrero de 2025.- Antonio Banderas, actor de cine español de reconocimiento mundial quien ha vivido y trabajado por muchos años en los Estados Unidos, en Hollywood, Meca del cine mundial, durante la ceremonia de entrega de los Premios Latino hizo algunos comentarios y reflexiones sobr...

Jueves, 14 de febrero de 2025.- Desde La Base, programa de análisis político realizado en España, se tocó este tema actual relacionado con las últimas declaraciones del presidente de los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica (USA), Donald Trump, sobre el proceso de Paz en Ucrania, donde dejó clara la po...

The Red Sea, a critical artery for global commerce, is experiencing a period of cautious calm following a near-collapse of the Gaza ceasefire. While the immediate threat of renewed Houthi attacks on shipping has receded, analysts warn that the underlying geopolitical risks remain, and the maritime industry should not become complacent. Earlier this week, the fragile truce between Israel and Hamas appeared to be on the verge of disintegration, raising alarms throughout the shipping world.  Hamas’s threat to suspend the hostage release…

13 de febrero de 2025.- El fabricante alemán de automóviles de lujo Porsche planea recortar unos 1.900 puestos de trabajo en dos plantas de la región de Stuttgart para 2029, dijo la compañía. Estas reducciones, que representan aproximadamente el 4,5 % de la plantilla de Porsche (42.000 empleados en ...

13 de febrero de 2025.- El vicepresidente Sectorial de Política, Seguridad Ciudadana y Paz, Diosdado Cabello, en rueda de prensa, informó que fue desmantelada una nueva operación terrorista, denominada «Operación Aurora» en el país, que eran auspiciados por la extrema derecha. Además indicó que por ...

Freight rates to ship Russian urals from Baltic ports to India jumped 20% in February to $7 million to $8 million per voyage after the Biden administration imposed harsher sanctions on Russian crude. Russia's provisional February loading plan for western ports was revised up by 19% to 1.9 million barrels per day, Reuters calculations showed early this month. Russian refineries are processing more crude oil in the hope of boosting fuel exports after the Biden administration imposed fresh sanctions on Russian crude. The sanctions have targeted Surgutneftgas…

Via Metal Miner The Copper Monthly Metals Index (MMI) held sideways, although the upside bias appeared to accelerate. In total, the index rose 1.64% from January to February, supported by rising U.S. copper prices. Keep up with the latest tariff news impacting copper prices. Subscribe to MetalMiner’s free weekly newsletter. Copper Prices Bullish as Exchange Delta Grows Traders continue to price the expectation of tariffs in the United States. Meanwhile, Comex copper prices closed February 10 at their highest level since October, reaching…

Turkey’s largest refiner, Turkiye Petrol Rafinerileri, will halt from February 27 purchases of any oil and products from Russia that do not comply with the G7 price cap, an anonymous source with knowledge of the plans told Bloomberg on Thursday. Turkiye Petrol Rafinerileri, or Tupras, has become the latest customer of Russian oil that is eager to avoid violating the latest U.S. sanctions on Russia’s oil trade and exports. The Biden Administration on January 10 imposed the most severe sanctions on Russia’s oil yet, designating…

Turkey’s largest refiner, Turkiye Petrol Rafinerileri, will halt from February 27 purchases of any oil and products from Russia that do not comply with the G7 price cap, an anonymous source with knowledge of the plans told Bloomberg on Thursday. Turkiye Petrol Rafinerileri, or Tupras, has become the latest customer of Russian oil that is eager to avoid violating the latest U.S. sanctions on Russia’s oil trade and exports. The Biden Administration on January 10 imposed the most severe sanctions on Russia’s oil yet, designating…

Turkey’s largest refiner, Turkiye Petrol Rafinerileri, will halt from February 27 purchases of any oil and products from Russia that do not comply with the G7 price cap, an anonymous source with knowledge of the plans told Bloomberg on Thursday. Turkiye Petrol Rafinerileri, or Tupras, has become the latest customer of Russian oil that is eager to avoid violating the latest U.S. sanctions on Russia’s oil trade and exports. The Biden Administration on January 10 imposed the most severe sanctions on Russia’s oil yet, designating…

Turkey’s largest refiner, Turkiye Petrol Rafinerileri, will halt from February 27 purchases of any oil and products from Russia that do not comply with the G7 price cap, an anonymous source with knowledge of the plans told Bloomberg on Thursday. Turkiye Petrol Rafinerileri, or Tupras, has become the latest customer of Russian oil that is eager to avoid violating the latest U.S. sanctions on Russia’s oil trade and exports. The Biden Administration on January 10 imposed the most severe sanctions on Russia’s oil yet, designating…

13 de febrero de 2025.- La informalidad laboral, las desigualdades de género y entre las zonas urbanas y rurales, y las dificultades que enfrentan los jóvenes para acceder a un empleo formal, persisten como barreras cruciales para un mercado del trabajo más equitativo en América Latina y el Caribe,...

Germany is set to extend its trusteeship over Russian oil company Rosneft's local subsidiaries for another six months, marking the fifth time it has done so. Back in 2022, Germany seized the local units of Rosneft and Gazprom, including three oil refineries. Together, the three refineries run by Rosneft Germany provide some 12% of the country’s total refining capacity, and the PCK Schwedt refinery near Berlin is key. This refinery, on the border with Poland, supplies fuel to the restive Berlin-Brandenburg region. Seizing Rosneft’s assets…

13 de febrero de 2025.- La Corte Constitucional de Ecuador negó una acción de protección con la cual la defensa del fundador de WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, buscaba recuperar su ciudadanía ecuatoriana por naturalización, según trascendió hoy en medios locales. En el fallo, emitido en noviembre pasa...

Adani Green Energy, the renewables arm of India’s Adani Group, is withdrawing from a planned wind power project in Sri Lanka that would have seen $1 billion in investments, due to disagreements over the power purchase price. Adani Green Energy has secured most of the permits for the wind power farms at Mannar and Pooneryn, including transmission lines. But a new government of Sri Lanka has signaled it wants to renegotiate the tariffs previously agreed, seeking a lower purchase price. Sri Lanka aims to reduce the purchase price to $0.06 per…