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For decades, the United States has been Canada’s most important energy partner, absorbing the lion’s share of its oil and gas production. After meeting its domestic refining needs, Canada exports ~80% of its crude output, with roughly 90% going to...

As public anger against the Nepalese government mounts after deadly landslides in Nepal, files show the country’s new prime minister and several of his colleagues came to power thanks in part to a covert program sponsored by the US government....

An event addresses a moment; a process creates continuity.An event manages adjustment; a process builds order. Complementing the proposed Muscat/Oman process, diplomatically in circulation since June through the Group of Friends of the Process, Omani Foreign Minister Sayyid Badr Albusaidi...

Readers are familiar by now with the broad-based commodity rally, with energy, agricultural products and metals moving sharply higher as former Goldman Sachs commodities head Jeff Currie warned this summer of growing scarcity in the physical economy. The Bloomberg Commodity Index has climbed to levels last...

OpenAI’s Jalapeño is a custom accelerator designed specifically for AI inference, particularly the low-latency, multi-chip workloads behind interactive and agentic systems. Its central idea is that useful performance cannot be reduced to peak floating-point operations or memory bandwidth. What matters...

Europe desperately needs to ramp up its energy storage capacity if it wants to avoid another energy crisis. In the wake of Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine back in 2022, the European Union made major strides in building up its...

On September 5, Russia and South Africa observed 20 years since the signing of the Treaty on Friendship and Partnership. This was concluded in Cape Town in 2006 as part of the official visit by President Vladimir Putin. The treaty...

After signing what President Donald Trump touted as “the biggest oil deal in world history” to take majority control of 65 billion barrels of proven crude oil reserves in Venezuela, the U.S. Administration is setting its sights on the South...

A new British report offers households an attractive deal: abandon net zero and save more than £500 a year. At a time of painfully high energy bills, that claim deserves attention. A transition households cannot finance will eventually lose political...

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Belarusian oil refineries recorded their highest profitability in a decade in 2026, according to the independent Pozirk news agency, as Russia's refining crisis pushed record volumes of gasoline and diesel across the border. Belneftekhim head Ilya Ikan credited the results...

The United States has imposed sanctions on all of Iran's remaining active airlines, sharply escalating pressure on Tehran's aviation sector as part of a broader campaign aimed at cutting the Islamic Republic off from international trade and finance. The US...

In 2019, Steve Fetter wrote “A Cheaper Nuclear Sponge,” in which he argued that building a new intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) was unnecessary for strengthening U.S. land-based deterrence. After several years of changing defense budgets and strategic priorities, we asked...

In 1973, after it was discovered that the U.S. had secretly bombed Cambodia, Congress took action. In an effort to assert its power over matters of war and peace, Congress pushed through the War Powers Resolution despite then-President Richard Nixon’s veto,...

On the last day of #DAC2026 I stopped by the Keysight booth to chat with Nilesh Kamdar, GM of EDA Business to get an update. He has spent 27 years in the industry, and this made 25 DAC trips for...

Uganda is approaching its entry into the oil export market, but getting its new Pearl Sweet grade to buyers will be harder than its low sulphur content might suggest. The country’s two projects are expected to produce 230,000 b/d at...

Google will invest at least €13 billion ($15.1 billion) in Finnish AI infrastructure over 2027 and 2028 and has signed a 22-year power purchase agreement with Fortum for up to 50% of the output from the Loviisa nuclear plant, Google's...

China’s aid model to Nepal, especially during crises and natural disasters, is a prime example of Global South solidarity, presented by Beijing as a development alternative to Western aid that is often contingent on political and structural reforms. This partnership...

Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey has warned inflationary pressures are still buffeting the UK economy and energy prices could rise further next year if the war in Iran continues. Speaking to MPs on Tuesday, the Bank chief said inflation...

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Angola's National Oil, Gas and Biofuels Agency, ExxonMobil and its Block 15 partners confirmed a new oil discovery at the Vicango Este-01 well on Wednesday, the deepwater block's 20th find since production began. Some 370 kilometers (230 miles) northwest of...

TODAY’S NUMBERS: $4,388 (gold, per ounce) · 98.6 (dollar index, four-month low) · 4.8% (10-year Treasury yield, highest since 2023). Gold and yields normally move apart. When both rise together with a falling dollar, markets are pricing something bigger than...

Copper is trading at record prices, and the people who turn raw ore into usable metal can't make money doing it. That's the copper market right now, and it says more about who actually controls the world's most important industrial...

Ukraine hit with drones overnight on Wednesday infrastructure in Novorossiysk, which is Russia’s key oil terminal in the Black Sea, in attacks that killed four people and reportedly sparked a fire at a fuel oil terminal at the port. Ukrainian...

The National Weather Service has issued heat advisories across California's Central Valley and coastal areas, including the Bay Area and Los Angeles, with more severe extreme heat warnings in parts of Southern California. Cooling demand is expected to soar over...

By discarding Washington’s open-door policy toward NATO enlargement and embracing prudent, interest-driven economic diplomacy, the United States can safeguard European stability, secure vital resource supply chains, and free up critical national security resources that are necessary for managing greater challenges. The...

Coalition-building requires new joint capital committed at the moment of political signaling. Hedging requires only showing up where the money already flows and collecting the credit for it in front of cameras. This week, in Bishkek and Cairo, Xi did...

China’s Sinopec, the world’s top refiner by capacity, expects Chinese oil demand to drop by 8.9% in 2026 from a year earlier amid demand destruction from higher oil prices and the acceleration of electric vehicle adoption. Oil demand in the...

The 2026 Ceva Edge Symposium will bring together engineers, technology leaders, ecosystem partners, and innovators to explore a major shift in computing: moving artificial intelligence from distant cloud infrastructure into the devices that interact directly with the physical world. Scheduled...

Uncertainty about how the wars in Iran and Ukraine will unfold is keeping many traders away from taking positions in longer-dated futures contracts, according to investment bank Morgan Stanley. Most traders have now moved to bet on futures prices within...

The tight global diesel market is set to further tighten in the coming months and keep fuel prices high, raising the prices of all goods and threatening the inflation targets of the central banks. Industry officials, who gathered at the...