Libya’s Tripoli-based prime minister Abdulhamid Dbeibah has defended a deal signed earlier this week with Turkey over oil and gas exploration in the Mediterranean, which angered European nations.
The memorandum of understanding, three years after a controversial maritime border deal, sparked a sharp reaction from Greece as well as from Dbeibah’s rivals in Libya, where two administrations are grappling for power.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed treaties to begin the formal (and illegal) annexation of occupied parts of Ukraine’s Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia regions—an area nearly the same size as Hungary. The move comes just days after staged “referendums” held at gunpoint in which the Kremlin claimed a significant majority of voters chose to join Russia. How will the world respond to Putin attempting to forcibly redraw Europe’s borders for the second time in eight years? Our experts map out what to expect next.
Saudi Arabia has been pushing for production cuts due to fluctuations in global oil prices.
Oil prices are at a three-week high following the decision by Saudi Arabia, Russia and other major oil producers to cut production.
The price of Brent crude oil topped $94 a barrel today, the highest price since Sept. 14, according to market data.
Iraq’s oil reduction per the recent OPEC+ agreement will not affect the country’s revenues, according to Iraq’s oil minister.
During the 33rd OPEC and non-OPEC Ministerial Meeting, which was held Oct. 5 at the OPEC headquarters in Vienna, Austria, the 23 member states decided to decrease oil production.
« Je ne viens pas en Afrique contre qui que ce soit », a dit le chef de la diplomatie ukrainienne. Pour Dmytro Kuleba, le continent est aujourd’hui une « priorité » de la politique étrangère de Kiev
Depuis des mois, Moscou souffle, par le biais des réseaux sociaux et de quelques bataillons d’activistes, sur les braises des ressentiments antifrançais. « Plus le conflit en Ukraine va durer, plus il nous faudra être vigilant sur le front africain », assure une source officielle française.
La junte menée par le capitaine Ibrahim Traoré accuse le chef de la junte démis Paul Damiba de “planifier une contre-offensive” depuis une base française.
Le lieu où se trouve Paul-Henri Damiba reste encore inconnu, de même que son sort. Mais les nouvelles autorités l’accusent ce samedi (01.10.22) de faire de la résistance depuis une base française près de Ouagadougou.
It is a complete article of faith in intellectual circles that the market is responsible for the rise in inequality that we have seen in the United States and elsewhere over the last half-century. Intellectual types literally cannot even consider the alternative that inequality was the result of government policies, not the natural workings of the market.
Each time the tsunami of populism engulfing the Western world appears to have been discredited and defeated, a new wave of far-right victories compels liberal pundits to eat their words.
Scarcely a country in the democratic West has remained unscathed, as these radical hooligans scale the walls and seize the seats of national power. Now Sweden and Italy are their latest two scalps.
When a country starts casting around for 60-year-old veterans to send to the front, you know that something’s wrong. All hands don’t go on deck unless the ship is foundering. It’s not yet clear whether the Russian ship of state is taking on water. But its military effort in Ukraine is obviously at the SOS stage.