Oil will hit levels ‘we haven’t see in our lifetimes’ if Iran isn’t stopped, Saudi Crown Prince says
Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has warned of astronomical oil prices in the event that tensions escalate in the Persian Gulf, two weeks after his country was hit by a drone and cruise missile attack that Riyadh and Washington have blamed on Iran. “If the world does not take a strong and firm […] Read more
The House Intelligence Committee on Thursday released a redacted version of the whistleblower complaint that has embroiled President Donald Trump in an impeachment inquiry and clouded his political future. The nine-page document details an “urgent concern” that the president is “using the power of his office to solicit interference from a foreign country in the […] Read more
The U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has suffered a potentially fatal blow to his authority after the U.K. Supreme Court ruled that his move to shut down parliament was illegal, immediately triggering calls for him to step down. Speaking at the Supreme Court in Westminster on Tuesday, the President of the U.K.’s highest court, Brenda […] Read more
Israeli oil and gas company Delek has received an offer from an unnamed investor for a potential investment of up to $250 million into its North Sea focused subsidiary Ithaca Energy. An Ithaca asset in the north Sea / Image source: Ithaca Delek, which through Ithaca agreed to buy Chevron’s North Sea assets in a […] Read more
Twitter announced on Friday that it had removed thousands of accounts for violating its “platform manipulation” policies, including 259 operated by Spain’s opposition People’s Party. “We have removed 259 accounts we identified as falsely boosting public sentiment online in Spain,” the social media platform said in a blog post. “Operated by Partido Popular (People’s Party), […] Read more
LUXEMBOURG — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson met with the European Union’s top executive on Monday for a set of lunchtime talks that both critics and allies have described as political theater, because his government continues to insist the U.K. will exit the EU at the end of October, with or without a negotiated agreement. […] Read more
There’s another “Game of Thrones” prequel series in the works, according to several reports, and this one will focus on the Targaryen family. Deadline, the Hollywood Reporter and Variety all reported Thursday that the show is close to being ordered as a pilot. It will be based on George R.R. Martin’s “Fire and Blood,” a […] Read more
The last race of 2018 pretty much played out the way the other ones did the last cycle, especially when it comes to special elections. The good news for the GOP: They won last night’s special election in North Carolina’s Ninth District, with Republican Dan Bishop narrowly defeating Democrat Dan McCready, 51 percent to 49 […] Read more
Market focus is firmly on U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s next move after a majority of U.K. lawmakers voted Tuesday to take control of parliamentary business. The result sets up another key vote in parliament on Wednesday on whether to block the government from proceeding with a no-deal Brexit on October 31, if no Brexit […] Read more
Corsica Linea, a French passenger ferry company, announced on Monday that it had rescued 18 migrants in the Mediterranean Sea. The ferry rescued the “18 shipwrecked (migrants) off the Balearic Islands,” the company’s Director-General Pierre-Antoine Villanova revealed on Twitter. “Corsica Linea fulfilled its ship-owner’s duty by respecting international conventions, the Spanish state did the same […] Read more
