India’s diplomatic efforts during the Russia-Ukraine war appear impressive from a distance but have yielded limited tangible results. While India aspires to be recognized as a rising power and credible peacemaker, its
European Union leaders gathered in Brussels on Thursday for a high-stakes summit aimed at resolving disputes over whether to use frozen Russian assets to finance Ukraine’s ongoing war effort. The summit, described
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Venezuela’s state-run oil company PDVSA is grappling with a growing backlog of unsold crude, widening price discounts and mounting pressure from customers after the United States seized an oil tanker carrying Venezuelan
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Intel has tested advanced chipmaking tools this year from ACM Research, a California-based firm with R&D and manufacturing units in China and South Korea, sources familiar with the matter said, sparking concern
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Russia’s oil export revenues fell sharply in November, hitting their lowest monthly level since the Kremlin launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, according to new data released Thursday by the
More A series of lawsuits filed Wednesday in Dallas accuses leading semiconductor companies—including Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Texas Instruments Inc., and a Berkshire Hathaway-owned distributor—of allowing their technology to end up
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An oil tanker that was seized by Iranian forces in the Gulf last week has been released, and its crew is unharmed, according to a statement from the vessel’s manager, Columbia Shipmanagement.
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Iran’s oil exports to China have reached their highest level in more than seven years, marking a significant milestone for Tehran’s energy sector despite the continued weight of U.S. sanctions. According to
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U.S. President Donald Trump announced that the most advanced artificial intelligence chips produced by Nvidia will be kept out of China and reserved solely for American companies. In a taped interview aired
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The Cuban Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bruno Rodríguez, denounced today the coercive measures being exerted by the United States ahead of the upcoming United Nations vote on the resolution calling for the
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God giveth and God taketh away, the Bible says. The US State Department announcement to reimpose sanctions on India’s Chabahar Port project in Iran fits into the Biblical maxim, although from a theological viewpoint,
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The global oil and gas sector is being forced to spend nearly half a trillion dollars a year simply to keep production steady, as fields decline more rapidly than previously expected, the
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Singapore-based container shipping group SeaLead has denied ties to the Iranian regime after U.S. sanctions forced it to withdraw a third of its fleet from service, according to the Financial Times. The
More Indian refiner Nayara Energy Ltd. has carried out one of its first ship-to-ship fuel transfers since being hit by European Union sanctions, in an apparent effort to maintain exports despite mounting restrictions,
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Niels Troost, the only European sanctioned for trading Russian oil, has launched a libel and slander lawsuit against New York-based corporate intelligence firm Arkin Group, accusing it of spreading disinformation on behalf
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Nayara Energy, India’s second-largest private oil refiner, has filed a lawsuit against Microsoft, accusing the U.S. tech giant of abruptly cutting off access to essential digital services and proprietary tools. The move
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