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Oil Giants, After Surge in Profits, Are Wary About Spending
While critics often accuse the oil industry of profiteering when prices are high, executives say their companies are prone to cycles. Their share prices have rocketed over the last year after a decade of underperforming almost every other industry. On…
Russia issue looms for Paris Olympics, Zelenskyy rebukes IOC
Graham Dunbar, The Associated Press
GENEVA (AP) — The question of if and how Russia competes at the Olympics hangs over the 2024 Paris Summer Games.
Just as it has now for five straight Olympics during Thomas Bach’s leadership of the IOC, whose support…
Russia issue looms for Paris Olympics, Zelenskyy rebukes IOC
Graham Dunbar, The Associated Press
GENEVA (AP) — The question of if and how Russia competes at the Olympics hangs over the 2024 Paris Summer Games.
Just as it has now for five straight Olympics during Thomas Bach’s leadership of the IOC, whose support…
Sanctions effect begins: Crude tankers forced onto longer voyages
Tanker investors have been getting cold feet this winter. Spot rates are down sharply from November and stocks are off earlier highs. Yet the bullish tanker thesis — war-induced trade inefficiencies, post-COVID reopening, new vessel capacity that’s abo…
With No Nuclear Deal, U.S. Eyes ‘Other Options,’ Iran Says JCPOA ‘Only’ Way
The White House has confirmed that President Joe Biden was not seeking to pursue progress on reviving a 2015 nuclear deal with Iran anytime soon, warning that the United States was preparing to pursue alternative options to ensure the Islamic Republic …
Russia can’t replace Western chips so it gets them illegally
Semiconductors have become a crucial technology for any country. National security directly depends on the availability of semiconductors, since without them a wide range of equipment is impossible to operate: from the simplest household appliances to …
Fact Check: Does China Spend More Than U.S. on Defense?
China’s military might has come into sharp focus over the past year as antagonisms between it and the U.S. continue over a potential conflict in Taiwan.
Newsweek reported earlier this week that China had begun doubling military flights around Tai…
Ukraine war latest: ‘Chilling’ signs Putin has become ‘reckless and emotional’; Russia launches wave of missile attacks after tanks announcement
US sanctions Wagner group and freezes assets
The United States has formally designated the Wagner Group a transnational criminal organization.
Assets belonging to the private military company have been frozen in the US.…
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Talks With Iran Are Dead. Now What? Opinion
As far as Iran is concerned, the Biden administration wants you to know that it has given up on trying to persuade the country to return to the 2015 nuclear deal (the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action).…
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Talks With Iran Are Dead. Now What? Opinion
As far as Iran is concerned, the Biden administration wants you to know that it has given up on trying to persuade the country to return to the 2015 nuclear deal (the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action). Where that leaves U.S. policy on Iran, however,…