Opec logo displayed on a smart phone with Opec seen in the background, in this photo illustration. On 10 September 2023. In Brussels, Belgium. (Photo illustration by Jonathan Raa/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images Meetings of the influential Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies, collectively known as OPEC+, … Read more
CANBERRA, Australia — China’s declining aid to the South Pacific is increasingly targeted toward its political allies in the region as appetite there for Chinese credit declines and competition grows with the U.S. for influence, an independent Australian think tank reported Tuesday. Chinese overall economic influence among the 14 aid-dependent island nations in the region … Read more
KYIV, Ukraine — The European Union’s foreign policy chief on Monday led a delegation of top diplomats on an unannounced visit to Kyiv and dismissed concerns about political tension in the bloc over its long-term support for Ukraine’s fight against Russia. Though largely symbolic, the informal meeting between EU and Ukrainian diplomats demonstrated the EU’s … Read more
SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) — Attorneys for New College of Florida, the traditionally progressive public liberal arts college that was taken over by allies of Gov. Ron DeSantis as part of his “war on woke,” last week threatened to sue a group of former faculty members and students who have formed an alternative online institute named … Read more
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky listens during a meeting with US President Joe Biden in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on September 21, 2023. Jim Watson | AFP | Getty Images Ukraine is trying to keep its international backers close as the spillover effects of the war with Russia — as … Read more
GUATEMALA CITY — Bernardo Arévalo’s expertise in peacebuilding and diplomacy eminently qualify him to steer Guatemala because the conflict-riven nation’s subsequent president, those that know him say. However first he must overcome forces that might maintain him from taking energy. Guatemalans voted for Arévalo in a landslide Sunday, however his opponent, former first woman Sandra … Read more
Joe Biden was talking at a marketing campaign occasion in Washington on Friday night time – GETTY IMAGES Joe Biden has been briefed on the chaotic state of affairs in Russia with US officers describing it as “critical”. The president was being stored knowledgeable as Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin was accused by Moscow of … Read more