Brice Oligui Nguema, who campaigned on a pledge to end youth unemployment by diversifying the oil-dependent OPEC nation, garnered 90.4% of ballots in the April 12 vote, according to preliminary results announced by the Minister of Interior and Security Hermann Immongault on Sunday. Alain Claude Bilie-By-Nze, a former prime minister and Nguema’s main challenger, got […]
At least one of the missiles was equipped with cluster munitions in order to maximize casualties, Andriy Yermak, top aide to Zelenskiy, said on Telegram. The missiles involved in Russia’s deadliest strike of 2025 so far were fired from Russia’s Kursk and Voronezh regions, Kyrylo Budanov, the head of Ukraine’s military intelligence agency, said on […]
This is the second time in just over two years that she and colleagues find themselves puzzling over a rate decision in the wake of turmoil emanating from the US, but before Fed policymakers met. After the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank prompted market ructions in 2023, the ECB opted not to blink, and delivered […]
BlackRock’s Chief Executive Officer Larry Fink warned on Monday that most CEOs he talks to thinks the US is already in a recession while consumer sentiment plunged to the second-weakest reading on record. Airlines, food and drug stores and supermarkets have all seen falling sales in recent weeks, according to alternative data compiled by Bloomberg, […]
Robinson did not leave her home following the fires, staying put with her husband, daughter and birds, including two cockatoos. Since then, she’s been plagued by anxiety and headaches, and her husband’s asthma has worsened. She worries their property has been contaminated by chemicals falling out of the smoke. Volunteers took surface swipe samples from places beneath the fire’s […]
Momentum has been building in the Vaca Muerta, Argentina’s shale patch in Patagonia that has the potential to export 1 million barrels a day of crude by the end of the decade if pipeline expansions go ahead as planned. But an escalating trade war between the US and its biggest trading partners has pressured global […]
“In my case, I would like to take a nice shower to take care of my beautiful hair. For 15 minutes until it gets wet. Drip, drip, drip. Ridiculous,” Trump said Wednesday in the Oval Office as he signed the directive. “What you do is you end up washing your hands five times longer, so […]
The executive, who’s led the bank since 2023, also said there’s an urgent need to renegotiate Canada’s trade agreement with the US and Mexico and to generally “get things done.” In conversations with Canada’s finance minister, he’s advised that the government “try to find a way to accelerate USMCA renegotiation,” ahead of the scheduled review […]
Article content (Bloomberg) — Senator Ted Cruz extended his critique of President Donald Trump’s tariffs and said there are “angels and demons” vying for influence as the White House plans to impose the steepest US trade duties in more than a century. Article content One of the angels, said Cruz, is Elon Musk, the world’s […]
Article content (Bloomberg) — Libya’s central bank devalued the dinar by 13% as the divided OPEC member grapples with a decline in crude revenue that a plunge in global oil prices stands to worsen. Article content The Libyan currency will now trade at 5.5677 per US dollar, the regulator announced on its Facebook page on […]