Maria Hernandez

Oil prices rose to their highest level in nearly three months on Monday on news that Saudi Arabia has increased its selling prices to customers in Asia more than expected. This is seen as a sign of Saudi confidence in oil demand. …

Denmark will join the defence policy of the European Union. A large majority of Danish voters agreed to this in a referendum. Denmark is the only EU member state to stand aside on defence, but the war in Ukraine has made the Danes realize…

The Russian Communist Party has suspended two regional MPs in the far eastern region of Primorye, around the port city of Vladivostok. The two parliamentarians had called for an end to the war in Ukraine. That wrote the newspaper Kommersant…

Attackers continue to develop new methods of infecting computers to activate their ransomware. Security expert Erik Westhovens, who works at Insight, now reports that a new zero-day has been discovered that infects Microsoft Office…

Broadcom makes one of its largest acquisitions ever. It puts $61 billion on the table for VMware. It also wants to eventually change its name to VMware. The $61 billion Broadcom has left for VMware consists of half in cash and half…

The group of seven leading industrial countries has made concrete agreements about phasing out coal generation and expanding the production of sustainable energy. That said the German Minister of the Environment Steffi Lemke to the German…

Turkey is negotiating with both Russia and Ukraine to resume exports of Ukrainian grain, a Turkish official said. The talks are about opening a corridor through Turkey. Turkey, like Ukraine and Russia, is located on the Black Sea.…

Russia says it is prepared to allow ships with food to pass through the Black Sea. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Rudenko told Interfax news agency on Wednesday that a humanitarian corridor could be formed there to allow the ships…

The US strategy towards Taiwan is unchanged, according to President Joe Biden, despite his remarks on Monday that Washington is prepared to use force to protect the Asian island nation against Chinese aggression. "Policy has not…

Sales of electrically powered cars continue to increase strongly, after the record sales of a year earlier. According to the energy agency IEA, the increase is related to a deluge of new models in combination with government policies to…