Bloomberg TotalEnergies SE doesn’t plan to divest its Russian assets amid the war in Ukraine, as doing so would essentially mean handing them over to President Vladimir Putin’s regime, Chief Executive Officer Patrick Pouyanne said. The French energy major said it will no longer sign or renew contracts to buy oil and petroleum products from Russia, with the aim ...

  Germany announced plans to switch away from Russian oil. It’s a laudable goal, but the logistics of doing so present an immense hurdle. With (almost) no oil production of its own, Germany depends on imports. Those come in two forms — crude oil for processing in the country’s refineries and finished products such as the diesel fuel that powers ...

Every year on July 31, on the site of an 18th-century coffee plantation in the Jamaican village of Woodside, there is a reenactment of Emancipation Day in 1838 when the slaves were freed by Royal Proclamation. People perform a memorial play, cite the proclamation and debate its meaning. The characters ask, “why should God save the Queen and not the ...