Ukrainian forces reportedly in Kherson Oblast. Via social media With a flurry of rockets from American-made launchers, Ukrainian forces in southern Ukraine attacked toward Russian-occupied Kherson on ...
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Russia Is Sending A Fresh Army Corps To Ukraine. Its Troops Are ‘Unfit And Old.’
3rd Army Corps tanks apparently bound for Ukraine. Via social media Photos that appeared online over the weekend, depicting Russian army armored vehicles on trains rolling out of the army training bas...
Catalent, Pinduoduo, Netflix and others
Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: Catalent (CTLT) – The drug delivery and manufacturing technology company beat bottom line estimates for its latest quarter. However, its reven...
U.S. states fall short of pledges to cut ties with Russia
Driven by moral outrage over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine earlier this year, U.S. governors and other top state officials made it clear: They wanted to cut their financial ties with Russia. A few stat...
Bank of Russia Eases Restrictions on Purchases of Dollar and Euro Cash – Finance Bitcoin News
The Central Bank of Russia has relaxed some limitations for Russian banks selling U.S. dollars and euros to the public. The increased supply of foreign cash may affect the crypto market in the country...
SBI Holdings terminates previously unknown deal with BitRiver: CoinDesk
SBI Holdings, a Japanese securities and banking giant, has ended its mining operations in Russia and cut ties with the sanctioned Russian bitcoin miner BitRiver. SBI Holdings had previously kept its...
Why the U.S. military faces a growing recruiting crisis
The U.S. military faces a growing recruiting shortfall — one so large that legislators are getting concerned. “The Army has to recognize that there’s been an evolution in that young popula...
U.S. Is Sending Ukraine VAMPIRE Systems To Turn Pickups Into Missile Launchers
The U.S. is sending L3 Harris’ civilian vehicle-compatible VAMPIRE missile system to Ukraine to aid … [+] its forces with counter-drone defense and potentially, surface to surface strike. ...
Ukrainian MiGs Firing American Missiles Are Hunting Down Russian Air-Defenses
A HARM missile under the wing of a U.S. Navy EA-18G. U.S. Navy photo With every new photo that circulates online, it’s becoming clearer—the Ukrainian air force’s trusty old MiG-29 fighters are on a mi...
Japan is pivoting to more nuclear power — the IEA says it’s good news
This image, from March 2022, shows wind turbines in front of the Hamaoka Nuclear Power Station in Japan. The country is now planning to use more nuclear power in the years ahead. Korekore | Istock | G...
Europe’s Largest Nuclear Plant In Ukraine Disconnects From Grid
Topline The Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in Southeastern Ukraine—the largest power plant in Europe—was disconnected from the electricity grid Thursday for the first time in the history of the plant, acc...
Crypto miners fined about $1.7 million in Russia
Authorities of Irkutsk, Russia, have fined heavily on crypto miners. Power utilities have also filed hundreds of legal actions. Crypto mining is now a successful and profit-making business for several...
Sanctions, Disagreements Hamper Regulation of Crypto Mining in Russia, Experts Say – Mining Bitcoin News
The changing geopolitical and economic environment, as well as persisting differences between responsible government institutions, are hindering the advance of legislation tailored to regulate cryptoc...
Ukraine Blocks Crypto Wallets Used To Fund Russia Invasion
Ukraine government has seized and blocked the crypto wallets which were affiliated to raising funds for Russian military campaign. According to Security Service of Ukraine, a lot of foreign crypto com...
Rystad Energy, Enverus See Booms In LNG And CCUS Investment Coming
LNG (Liquefied natural gas) tanker Rudolf Samoylovich, sailing under the flag of Bahamas, moors at … [+] the dock of the Montoir-de-Bretagne LNG Terminal near Saint-Nazaire, western France, on M...
Ukraine Celebrates Independence Day As Russian Invasion Hits Six-Month Mark
Topline Ukraine marked 31 years of independence from the Soviet Union on Wednesday, a muted celebration amid warnings that Moscow would step up attacks on civilians as Russia’s invasion hits the six-m...
Mobile Missile Teams Striking Fragile Supply Lines
Soldiers from the Ukrainian army’s 14th Mechanized Brigade with a Stugna-P anti-tank missile. Photo via social media Roaming groups of infantry hauling anti-tank missiles, working in the gaps be...
Russia’s Ukraine Invasion Hits 6-Month Mark—A Look At What’s Happened So Far
Topline Six months have passed since Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, a conflict that has forced millions of Ukrainians to flee their homes, left an estimated tens of thousands of Russ...
Biden Reportedly Plans $3 Billion Ukraine Arms Package As War Reaches Six-Month Mark
Topline The Biden Administration is planning to unveil a $3 billion military aid package for Ukraine this week, U.S. officials told the Associated Press on Tuesday, offering another round of assistanc...
Oil Is The Outlier In The World’s Post-COVID Energy Recovery
Wind turbine with Oil refinery at twilight sky background. getty The 2022 edition of the bp Statistical Review of World Energy was recently published (the 71st annual edition), which means it’s time f...
Europe’s Markets And Energy Security Disrupted By Russia Sanctions
A loan wind turbine stands before the exhaust plumes from cooling towers at German coal fired power … [+] plant. They will need more coal as they turn against Russian piped gas. Sorry, climate c...
Russia ‘Stepping Up’ Civilian Strikes As Ukraine’s Independence Day Approaches, U.S. Warns
Topline The U.S. embassy in Kyiv issued an alert on Tuesday urging Americans to leave the country immediately, warning of imminent Russian attacks against civilian infrastructure as the invasion appro...
Inside Baker Hughes’ Vision For The Energy Transition
Emily Pickrell, UH Energy Scholar Baker Hughes Company logo and models of an oil rig, pump jack and oil barrels are pictured in this … [+] illustration photo taken in Kyiv on 19 August, 2021. (P...
SBI Holdings Halt Bitcoin Mining Operations in Russia
Japan’s largest online brokerage, SBI Holdings, will shut down its Bitcoin mining operations in Russia, citing concerns over sanctions. Per a report by Bloomberg, SBI Holdings, Japan’s leading financi...
Putin Accidentally Revived The League Of Democracies. Here’s What It Means For Business.
Central to Sen. John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign was the concept of a League of Democracies: “the one organization where the world’s democracies would come together to discuss problems a...
Fill Your Dividend Basket With Food And Fertilizer
Tractor cultivating field at spring,aerial view getty The world needs to produce more food to feed everyone in the years ahead. Period. Food shortages are likely to be an unfortunate megatrend of the ...
How much does it cost to travel full time? Here’s what one couple pays
Ernestas Tyminas felt “stuck” in his role as a marketing manager at a newspaper in Colorado Springs, Colorado. So he requested two months off to backpack through Asia, he said, landing in ...
Russia Accuses Ukrainian Special Services Of Organizing Killing Of Putin Ally Alexander Dugin’s Daughter
Topline A Russian security agency on Monday accused Ukraine of carrying out a car bombing Saturday that killed the daughter of Alexander Dugin, a key ally of President Vladimir Putin, an attack for wh...
SBI Holdings Plan To End Crypto Mining In Russia Following The War
The year 2022 hasn’t been positive for the crypto market. Many crypto companies, investors, and miners lost a lot of funds leading to a loss of confidence in the market. At a point, miners’ rigs could...
Natural Gas Prices Soar In Europe And Asia As Moscow Plots Closure Of Key Pipeline
Topline Natural gas prices in Europe and Asia have skyrocketed after Russia’s state-controlled Gazprom announced plans to temporarily close a key pipeline at the end of August for maintenance, deepeni...