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2 days ago · British oil major BP and Trinidad and Tobago's state energy company NGC have gotten a. twoyear license from the U.S. Treasury Department to negotiate. and establish the CocuinaManakin gas fields with Venezuela,. Trinidad's energy minister stated on Wednesday. Washington last month did not restore a broad license that had. allowed Venezuela to easily export its oil and get. investment, however it has actually considering that issued specific authorizations to. companies attempting to do ...
2 days ago · London's bluechip stocks dropped on Wednesday for the six straight session as traders pared back bets on the timing of Federal Reserve rates of interest cuts, while Anglo American fell after Australian resources huge BHP Group left its $49 billion takeover pursuit. Anglo shares fell 3.0%. Earlier in the day Anglo turned down BHP's desperate request for more time to go over a takeover deal, dismissing it as extremely complex. The blue-chip FTSE 100 closed 0.9% lower, in its longest losing ...
2 days ago · Botswana's President Mokgweetsi Masisi on Wednesday called synthetic gems a hazard to the country's financial lifeblood, as the federal government readies to launch a $6 billion job to extend the life of its flagship Jwaneng diamond mine. The natural diamond market has struggled in the past two years due to rising customer need for more affordable lab-grown diamonds, combined with worldwide macroeconomic volatility. Masisi will participate this week at the JCK Show in Las Vegas, considered ...
2 days ago · "We need to start production of these strike systems and then, based on the actual situation, make decisions about where — if necessary to ensure our safety — to place them," Putin said last week. "Today it is known that the United States not only produces these missile systems, but has already brought them to Europe for exercises, to Denmark.
2 days ago · The army was officially established as the Ceylon Army in 1949, though the army traces its roots back in 1881 when Ceylon Light Infantry Volunteers was created; the army was renamed as the 'Sri Lanka Army' when Sri Lanka became a republic in 1972. In 2024, the Army had approximately 150,000 personnel. [2] [3]
2 days ago · The long lines of citizens recalled South Africa's 1994 tally that ended white minority guideline and introduced democracy, but for many, appreciation to the ruling African National Congress (ANC) for their historical freedom is wearing thin. As South Africans cast their ballots on Wednesday in the country's most unforeseeable election in three decades of democracy, even a few of those proud of Nelson Mandela's legacy party for the struggle against apartheid were losing patience with ...
2 days ago · The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947, two years after the end of World War II and lasted to 1991, the fall of the Soviet Union. The term cold war is used because there was no large-scale fighting ...
