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By William James and Kate Abnett BAKU (Reuters) -Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev used a keynote speech at the COP29 climate summit to lash out at Western critics of his country’s oil and gas industry, saying it had been the victim of a “well-orchestrated campaign of slander and blackmail”. The comments…
Missoula has faced rising homelessness as housing costs surge and shelter capacity is strained.A new ordinance regulating sleeping outdoors is pushing more people to seek shelter services.But the city is also overhauling its land-use plan to build more housing and improve affordability. Housing costs and the homeless population have soared…
Russia is amassing artillery faster than Ukraine can destroy it.Ukraine must reduce this shelling or risk continuing to fall back.Russian artillery depends on a complex supply chain vulnerable to sanctions, defense experts say. For centuries, a key to battlefield victory has been destroying the enemy’s artillery. Left unmolested, the big…
By Jessica DiNapoli NEW YORK (Reuters) – PepsiCo (NASDAQ:) and Coke bottlers in the West Bank are running out of cans and sugar, blocked by the prolonged closure of a Jordan border crossing, managers of two soda-bottling plants in the occupied Palestinian territory said. In the latest global supply chain…
Russia appears to have lost one of its new S-70 Okhotnik (Hunter) drones over the weekend.The suspected drone crashed in eastern Ukraine, but the cause is still unknown.Losing one is not only a blow for Russia; it could be a big intelligence win for the West. An aircraft believed to…
The F-16s that Ukraine’s allies are giving it are older-generation aircraft.That means they can’t outclass Russia’s best jets, a former US general and NATO official told BI.They lack the armaments needed to make them superior to Russian fighters. The old F-16 models that Ukraine’s allies are giving it are no…
Earlier this month, a spokesperson for Turkey’s ruling AK Party said that a process was “underway” for Turkey to join the BRICS group of emerging-market nations.”Our president has stated at various times that we want to be a member (of BRICS)… Our request on this issue is clear. This process…
Officials in China have been telling young people that spies or foreign powers could be out to trick them through casual activities like online dating and listening to pop music.National authorities raised these red flags at least twice recently, amid a wider push from leader Xi Jinping to bolster Chinese…
Ukrainian forces pushed into southwest Russia on August 6 in a surprise attack, and as of this week control almost 500 square miles of Russian territory, according to Ukraine’s army chief.Experts say it’s unclear how the incursion will end, but they add that it’s been highly successful, both in allowing Ukraine…
By Nicole Jao NEW YORK (Reuters) – Canada’s expanded Trans Mountain (TMX) oil pipeline, which commenced commercial operations in May, so far has had little impact on crude costs at refineries on the U.S. West Coast, according to companies operating there. The expansion, which tripled pipeline capacity from Alberta to…
