After flirting with $100 a barrel this summer, crude prices had fallen significantly in the past week on the expectation that demand was waning.
Category: War and Armed Conflicts
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Mi sexto lenguaje del amor: la ‘intimidad de WhatsApp’
Para mi familia siria, dispersa por la guerra, un chat grupal —repleto de videos tontos y fotos a menudo vergonzosas— lo es todo.
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Tanker in Yemen Is Emptied of Oil, Averting Catastrophic Spill
More than a million barrels of oil on a tanker off the coast of Yemen were transferred to another ship bought by the United Nations. But now a new hurdle looms: Who owns the recovered oil?
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At the French Open, Djokovic Storms the Court and Into Controversy, Again
In recent days, the Serbian tennis star Novak Djokovic has inserted himself into the mounting international crisis in Kosovo.
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‘A House Made of Splinters’ Review: Home Is Where the Hope Is
This film, an Oscar nominee this year for best documentary feature, has an aching sensitivity for the children in a Ukraine shelter.
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A Balkan Leader Gets the Hollywood Treatment, Starring Kevin Spacey
A director cast the beleaguered actor as Franjo Tudjman, the late Croatian leader, whom some call a patriot and others revile as an ethnonationalist zealot.
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Is This the World’s Most Picturesque High Dive?
Catch a glimpse of a storied tradition in Bosnia and Herzegovina, where, for hundreds of years, divers have leaped from a bridge in the southern city of Mostar.
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Elon Musk Foments More Geopolitical Controversy With Ukraine Internet Dispute
The world’s richest man, whose Starlink internet service is critical to the Ukrainian Army, said he could not “indefinitely” fund the system’s use in Ukraine.
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War Colliding With Recession Risks Leave Energy Markets on Uncertain Path
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, along with governments’ reactions to that, might mean that prices rise. Or they could fall on fears of a global economic slowdown.
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How Russian Action Movies Are Selling War
For an American, it can be easy to forget how much ideology is packed into the genre — until you watch a film from elsewhere, and see their cartoonish heroes and villains.