Yesterday
Venezuela opposition candidate flees to Spain
Edmundo Gonzalez, 75, who ran against President Nicolás Maduro in July, left after seeking refuge in the Spanish embassy in Caracas several days ago.
- Lisandra Paraguassu and Vivian Sequera
July
Protests erupt in Venezuela as nations denounce election result
The US and countries around the world denounced the official results of Sunday’s vote, which did not appear to match statistical estimates based on partial counts.
- Frances Robles, Jack Nicas and Alejandro Cegarra
Maduro declared winner in Venezuela’s disputed presidential election
Nicolás Maduro will face the challenge of legitimising the vote to his people and the rest of the world, given his government’s history of repression and fraudulent elections.
- Updated
- Patricia Laya and Andreina Itriago Acosta
April
Iran oil exports hit six-year high as West considers tougher sanctions
Iran’s success in exporting its crude underscores the difficulties facing the West as it seeks to build pressure on Tehran following its attack on Israel.
- Malcolm Moore and Najmeh Bozorgmehr
December
John Pilger, controversial campaigning journalist, dead at 84
John Pilger, who has died aged 84, was a journalist and documentary maker for whom the word uncompromising might have been invented.
- Telegraph Obituaries
December 2023
Venezuelans vote to claim sovereignty over oil-rich chunk of Guyana
It remains unclear how President Nicolas Maduro will enforce the results. But Guyana considers the referendum a step towards annexation.
- Regina Garcia Cano and Jorge Rueda
November 2023
- Opinion
- Mining
Why Biden’s IRA matters so much to Australia
Jim Chalmers says we don’t need a version of the Inflation Reduction Act, but that underscores the importance of its fine print to our critical minerals industry.
- Jennifer Hewett
August 2023
China urges bigger, stronger BRICS to rival G7
Leaders from the bloc of developing economies will gather this week to debate expansion.
- Joseph Cotterill, James Kynge and Arjun Neil Alim
July 2023
Shares soar as US government buys up Aussie company’s anti-drone tech
Shares in ASX listed defence tech company DroneShield have soared 19 per cent, after it struck a $33m deal to sell equipment to the US Department of Defence.
- Nick Bonyhady
April 2023
Russia’s shadow tankers risk ‘oil spill disaster’
Thousands of vessels with limited cover are an environmental accident waiting to happen, says the boss of a top shipping insurer.
- Ian Smith, Tom Wilson and Chris Cook
January 2023
- Opinion
- Gas crisis
How gas price caps blow up investment
Labor’s intervention tells investors in hydrogen that policy can change on a whim if the politics suit it.
- Amanda Stoker
Biden visits Mexican border amid crackdown in immigrants
In a brief visit to El Paso’s busiest crossing and a migrant services support centre, the US president acceded to demands by Republicans that he make the trip he had not taken for two years.
- Michael D. Shear and Edgar Sandoval
US reopening visa and consular services at embassy in Cuba
The Embassy confirmed this week it would begin processing immigrant visas, with a priority placed on permits to reunite Cubans with family in the US.
- Megan Janetsky
- Opinion
- Energy
China’s new world energy order is taking shape
The rise of the ‘petroyuan’ should be an incentive for both the US and Europe to move away from fossil fuels as quickly as they can.
- Rana Foroohar
November 2022
US grants Chevron licence to pump oil in Venezuela
Chevron, the only remaining active US oil company in Venezuela, is part of a joint venture with the country’s state oil company but has been barred by sanctions from operations there.
- Karen DeYoung
March 2022
Pariahs no more? Three problematic oil states that are back in favour
Three checkered oil regimes that President Joe Biden and past US leaders have spectacularly snubbed are now targets of US outreach as global fuel prices reach jarring levels.
- Ellen Knickmeyer and Cathy Bussewitz
- Opinion
- Russia-Ukraine war
‘We may reach the point where Putin can’t even pay his troops’
A Western oil embargo against Russia raises the geostrategic stakes exponentially. What was almost unthinkable a few days ago has become unstoppable this week.
- Updated
- Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
December 2021
Leftist Millennial vows to remake Chile after historic win
Gabriel Boric’s win marked another advance for Latin America’s left, and bolstered talk of a new “pink tide” in the region, as raging poverty fanned by the coronavirus pandemic sways voters toward those who promise higher social spending.
- Jushua Goodman and Patricia Luna
Leftist Boric wins Chile presidency pledging economic overhaul
Gabriel Boric, 35, will take office in March as one of the youngest presidents in the world and an ambitious agenda.
- Updated
- Matthew Malinowski
May 2021
Net-zero future confronts oil-rich nations
For oil producing nations, a global shift towards cleaner fuels will pose questions about whether they can come out of the energy transition well.
- Anjli Raval, Chloe Cornish and Neil Munshi