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Abu Dhabi / WAM  President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan and Karl Nehammer, Federal Chancellor of the Republic of Austria, have witnessed the signing of a Strategic Energy Security and Industrial Cooperation (Sesic) partnership between the UAE and Austria. The Sesic will focus on projects of mutual interest in refined products, liquefied natural gas (LNG), renewables, and ...

Northern Ireland is set for a second election this year after the biggest unionist party again prevented the region’s government from forming, amid a row over post-Brexit trade rules that has major implications for the UK. The Democratic Unionist Party stopped the election of an Assembly Speaker and prevented the election of an Executive for a fourth time Thursday, after ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping said his nation is willing to work with the US to find ways to cooperate, comments that come before a potential meeting with President Joe Biden at a Group of 20 summit next month. Better communication between the two nations would bolster global peace and development, Xi said in a letter to the National Committee on ...

Citing burgeoning threats from Russia and China, the Pentagon’s new National Defense Strategy rejects limits on using nuclear weapons long championed by arms control advocates and, in the past, by President Joe Biden. “By the 2030s the United States will, for the first time in its history face two major nuclear powers as strategic competitors and potential adversaries,” the Defense ...

Europe’s near-term natural gas supply glut means more fuel for Asia this winter. Liquefied natural gas (LNG) suppliers are already looking to redirect shipments to Asia for delivery from November onward due to more attractive prices. Asia LNG spot prices jumped above the European gas benchmark for the first time since June earlier this week. This is a reversal: For much ...

Germany is preparing for a worst-case scenario in which it needs to double financial aid to Uniper SE, the nation’s biggest gas supplier, to $60.14 billion. Uniper’s financial situation is worsening with an expected adjusted net loss of $3.2 billion for the first nine months of the year as it buys more expensive wholesale gas to meet supply contracts after ...

The US health-care system needs more nurses. Nursing schools aren’t producing enough graduates, young workers are quitting, and older ones are retiring early. Throughout the pandemic, widespread shortages reduced the quality of care and even cost lives. To bolster the workforce and better prepare for the next crisis, the US must invest in its domestic pipeline and clear hurdles for ...

Rachel Sanderson If Giorgia Meloni had expected a straightforward passage to becoming Italy’s first woman prime minister, she hadn’t counted on her coalition ally Silvio Berlusconi’s enduring desire to control. Italy’s three-time premier started undermining her far-right government even before its ministers were named. But Meloni has something to learn from Berlusconi too. He provides a cautionary tale for all ...

Brazil’s presidential race is still tightening according to a new opinion poll that takes into account voters most likely to show up on election day. The Quaest poll published Wednesday followed a trend seen in other surveys this week that showed President Jair Bolsonaro’s overall momentum fading, but it also gauged the possible impact of abstention rates on Sunday’s runoff ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and French President Emmanuel Macron met in Paris Wednesday to try and iron out wide-ranging tensions from energy and economic issues to the future of European defense. A Macron aide said the two leaders were set to discuss defense, macroeconomic issues and energy over a working lunch at the presidential palace. They had no plans for ...