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Trump claimed that Zelensky was responsible for starting the war with Russia

Trump claimed that Zelensky was responsible for starting the war with Russia

Donald Trump on Thursday blamed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for helping start the war with Russia, a comment that further suggests that Trump will likely radically change US policy towards Russia if he wins the November 5 election. The former Republican president has frequently criticized Zelensky during the election campaign, repeatedly calling him “the biggest ...

Vladimir Putin says Russia will not allow Ukraine to obtain nuclear weapons

Vladimir Putin says Russia will not allow Ukraine to obtain nuclear weapons

President Vladimir Putin said Friday that Russia will not allow Ukraine to obtain nuclear weapons, after the Ukrainian leader said that, Since kyiv had given up its Soviet-era nuclear weapons, it had to join NATO. Putin said any move by Ukraine to obtain nuclear weapons could not be hidden and would provoke an appropriate Russian ...

Oil company TotalEnergies sells Brazilian fuel distribution business to SIM

Oil company TotalEnergies sells Brazilian fuel distribution business to SIM

SIM Distribuidora, the buyer, has more than 500 service stations, in addition to lubricant distribution activities French oil company TotalEnergies agreed to sell a network of about 240 retail service stations and several oil product storage facilities in Brazil to a subsidiary of Grupo Argentina, the company reported on Friday. SIM Distributor, the buyer, It ...

Netflix exceeds its profit goals with more than 5 million new customers

Netflix exceeds its profit goals with more than 5 million new customers

Streaming video pioneer Netflix gained 5.1 million subscribers in the third quarter, surpassing Wall Street estimates by more than one million users, the company reported in its earnings report on Thursday. Netflix shares were volatile in after-hours trading. Investors expected Netflix to add 4 million subscribers between July and September, according to analyst estimates compiled ...

Israeli attack on Syrian port city Latakia sparks several fires

Israeli attack on Syrian port city Latakia sparks several fires

An Israeli attack on the port city of Latakia, on Syria’s Mediterranean coast, It caused a fire early on Thursday, the Syrian state news agency Sana reported. Firefighters were working to extinguish the flames, Sana added. Two people were injured and several private properties were damaged, state media reported, citing a military statement. Syrian state ...

Kamala Harris bets Republican voters will help her win against Trump

Kamala Harris bets Republican voters will help her win against Trump

The vice president’s campaign has been boosted by the recent endorsement of former Representative Liz Cheney and the support of other Republicans opposed to Donald Trump, developments that his team believes reinforce his attempt to win over more Republican voters in battleground states than previous Democrats. To highlight that momentum, Harris will appear Wednesday with ...

Blackstone will invest US$8.2 billion in data centers in northeastern Spain

Blackstone will invest US$8.2 billion in data centers in northeastern Spain

blackstonethe world’s largest alternative asset manager, plans to invest 7.5 billion euros ($8.2 billion) in the development of data centers in Aragon, northeast of Spainthus boosting the region’s growing status as one of the leading cloud computing centers in Europe. The venture capital fund United States will follow technology giants like Microsoft and amazon who ...

Rating company S&P maintains Chile's foreign currency debt rating

Rating company S&P maintains Chile’s foreign currency debt rating

Additionally, the firm maintained the long-term outlook at “stable,” citing an improvement in the country’s fiscal trajectory in recent years. The agency Standard & Poor’s said on Tuesday that it maintained Chile’s debt rating in foreign currency at “A/A-1” and that it revised its outlook to “stable”, citing an improvement in the country’s fiscal trajectory. ...

Government of Ecuador will extend electricity rationing until October 20

Government of Ecuador will extend electricity rationing until October 20

The Ministry of Energy and Mines of Ecuador reported that Energy rationing will be extended in that country until next October 20 and detailed the cutting shifts for nine distributors that serve eight regions. The Minister of Energy, Inés Manzano, explained that the cuts, like last week, did notor will exceed 10 hours. However, the ...

Israeli data shows hundreds of structures damaged after Iranian attack

Israeli data shows hundreds of structures damaged after Iranian attack

Damage to private property caused by Iran’s recent missile attack on IsraelThey amounted to between 150,000 and 200,000 million shekels (US$40 and US$53 million), according to figures provided by the Israeli tax authority.making it the costliest attack since the start of the war a year ago. In the two weeks following the October 1 attack, ...