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While the dust is settling and facts emerge, it is clear that the latest attack on Saudi Aramco's Abqaiq oil-processing complex is rapidly becoming one of the most consequential energy developments of 2026. The event should not be assessed on...

This week, the Navy retired a littoral combat ship only halfway through its lifespan. The USS Fort Worth , a surface combatant ship which cost $400 million to build, entered service in 2012. It was originally meant to serve until the...

Donald Trump’s July 8 order to halt trade with Spain has yet to become an energy embargo, but Madrid can no longer dismiss it as political theatre. It was the second such threat since March 2026, this time delivered directly...

Choosing an Arctic cruise to Svalbard means comparing operators whose actual ice access, passenger capacity, and wildlife programming vary more than their brochures suggest. Polar bear sightings, walrus colonies, and ice-edge cruising depend directly on hull capability and itinerary design...

Earlier this month, the Canadian government announced that it had signed the United Nations Convention against Cybercrime. Speaking with Michael Geist of Law Bytes, senior research associate Kate Robertson argues that the convention is a cross-border surveillance and electronic evidence sharing...

US President Donald Trump announced a 15-point Board of Peace roadmap transferring Gaza’s governance and security responsibilities. The plan links verified Hamas disarmament to phased Israeli withdrawal, but sequencing remains disputed. The post Board of Peace announces Hamas disarmament agreement, IDF...

ExxonMobil and Chevron made a combined $26.5 billion in the second quarter after producing more oil, refining more fuel, and selling all of it into a market scrambled by war. Washington is investigating why gasoline costs so much. Chevron reported...

Kyrgyzstan’s election to a two-year term on the United Nations Security Council came after a diligent campaign to gain support for its candidacy. It means a Central Asian state will have a seat on the UN’s most powerful body for...

Pedro Sánchez decries ‘violation of territorial integrity’ as other EU countries criticise Madrid over incident At least 57 people have died trying to reach the Spanish enclave of Ceuta after as many as 50,000 migrants entered the tiny territory from Morocco...

The total number of active drilling rigs for oil and gas in the United States rose this week, according to new data that Baker Hughes published on Friday, bringing the total rig count in the US to 588, up 48...

For quite a few years, John Cooley has hosted the Troublemaker Panel at DAC. The event consists of a panel of senior executives from the EDA industry. John Cooley asks his readers for “edgy” questions to ask the panelists and...

The new US sanctions on Sudan’s Armed Forces (SAF), which took effect this month, mark a decisive escalation in Washington’s attempt to enforce the global taboo on chemical weapons—and they place uncomfortable pressure on the SAF’s supporter, Saudi Arabia. Far...

Ukraine has struck one of Russia’s biggest refineries, Lukoil’s Volgograd processing facility, the Ukrainian forces said on Friday as they resumed attacks on Russian refining capacity. The Volgograd refinery, which has the capacity to process 300,000 barrels per day (bpd)...

On Friday, July 31, Ceuta President Juan Vivas announced that 60,000 migrants had entered the city within a matter of hours. According to sources at Spain's Ministry of the Interior, about 25,000 of them had voluntarily returned to Morocco by...

Brent is set for an 8% weekly loss, but ongoing disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz and the Red Sea continue to support oil prices near $90 a barrel. Friday, July 31, 2026 Oil prices are set for an 8%...

Iranian-designed drones have wreaked havoc for Ukrainian forces battling Russian troops as Moscow took Tehran's technology and ran with it, supercharging production and deploying drones in devastating droves in its all-out war against Kyiv. As far as Ukraine is concerned,...

An estimated 50,000 people attempted the journey to the Spanish territory in chaotic and dangerous scenes that resulted in dozens of deaths Border controls between Morocco and the tiny Spanish territory of Ceuta appeared to break down in recent days, allowing...

Three anti-Taliban resistance groups launched separate operations across Badakhshan province, Afghanistan, over a two-week period, temporarily overrunning a district center and attacking Taliban positions in multiple districts. While there is no evidence of direct coordination among the resistance groups, there...

China will have more installed solar power capacity than coal-fired generation capacity as early as this quarter, Chinese authorities have said. As of the end of June, solar power capacity stood at 1,274 gigawatts (GW), just below the total coal-fired...

When President Donald Trump promises Ukraine a license to manufacture Patriot missile systems, it comes as little surprise when Boeing declines. The same logic applies to ExxonMobil, Chevron and other energy giants that refuse to invest in Venezuela's vast oil...

CONTACT: media@palestinelegal.org July 31, 2026 – Carnegie Mellon University's statement is yet another desperate attempt to malign and attack its own students for speaking out in support of Palestinian rights. In response to a growing call from civil society groups defending...

The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) is making one of the most significant changes to Middle Eastern crude pricing in years, announcing that all of its Abu Dhabi crude grades will move to a prompt-month pricing methodology based on...

ADNOC is changing the pricing formula used for its flagship crude grades. The oil giant said Friday it will move away from its ICE Futures Abu Dhabi-based pricing methodology, which prices crude off the Murban futures contract two months ahead...

It’s clear that Europe cannot continue like this. The scenes at Ceuta over the past 24 hours—an estimated 49,000 people crossing the border by land and sea, including hundreds of unaccompanied minors; at least 19 bodies pulled from the water;...

Global coal consumption reached another record in 2025, seemingly contradicting years of discussion about phasing out the world’s most carbon-intensive fossil fuel. But the headline number does not tell the whole story. The latest Statistical Review of World Energy shows...

Shell has agreed to sell its wholly-owned subsidiary BG Cyprus Ltd to MOL Group of Hungary for $720 million, as the UK-based oil and gas supermajor targets to grow its LNG value chain. Shell on Friday announced the agreement with...

CoWoS-S and CoWoS-R are two versions of TSMC’s Chip-on-Wafer-on-Substrate advanced packaging platform. Both technologies are designed to combine high-performance processors, chiplets and high-bandwidth memory, or HBM, within a single package. This shortens the electrical connections between computing and memory components,…...

Iran on Friday claimed it launched attacks on U.S. military assets in Bahrain and Kuwait amid the latest re-escalation of hostilities in the region, which dashed the hopes from early this week that there could be a swift return to...

The mutually beneficial corruption arrangement between the rival Haftar and Dbeibah camps that has kept Libya from returning to civil war could be undone by a third force usually left out of political calculations: the citizens of Libya. For nearly...

Politics, Geopolitics & Conflict A drone attack reached Egypt’s Mediterranean gas infrastructure for the first time in the war. At least two drones struck the US-owned Energos Winter floating storage and regasification unit and a second gas-processing vessel at Damietta...

September WTI crude oil futures were trading at $84.12 late Thursday, down $6.35, or 7.02%, for the week. With Friday’s session still ahead, the weekly result is not final. But the week’s main story is clear: crude sold off hard...

During visit to Ghana, Sarah Mullally expresses regret and says controversial fund symbolises Christian belief in repentance At a former British castle where thousands of enslaved Africans were held before being shipped across the Atlantic, the archbishop of Canterbury expressed “lament”...