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Fatih Birol, Executive director of the International Energy Agency (IEA), warned Thursday that Europe has “maybe six weeks or so” of remaining  jet fuel supplies, the Associated Press (AP) reports. Birol spoke with AP in Paris, France, over the ongoing disruptions in fuel supply and its prices derived by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz through the ongoing war in Iran, which Birol described as  “the largest energy crisis we have ever faced.” The IEA chief warned that there could be flight cancellations “soon” if oil supplies remain blocked by the ongoing conflict. “In the past there was a group…

Tesla and xAI CEO Elon Musk has called for the United States federal government to provide “Universal HIGH INCOME” checks to citizens as he believes AI and robotics will radically reshape the employment landscape. Musk made his proposal on Friday through a post on X which garnered almost 38 million views and ignited widespread discussion about the future of work in an increasingly automated economy. The tech tycoon argued that AI and robotics will produce goods and services in such abundance that traditional concerns about inflation from increased money supply will become irrelevant. “AI/robotics will produce goods & services far…

“Acting president” of Venezuela Delcy Rodríguez on Thursday thanked President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio for “goodwill” in restoring bilateral ties between their countries. Rodríguez expressed her gratitude to President Trump during the signing ceremony of Venezuela’s new Mining Law, approved last week by lawmakers from the socialist regime-controlled National Assembly. The legislation is one of the most significant reforms conducted by the Venezuelan regime following the January 3 U.S. law enforcement operation in Caracas authorized by President Trump that led to the successful arrest of Nicolás Maduro, long wanted by U.S. authorities on multiple narco-terrorism charges.…

Officials claim renewable energy could power European militaries after the Iran war exposed a key vulnerability EU and NATO officials fear that European armies would be unable to conduct a major military operation – such as a hypothetical war with Russia that Brussels continues to claim could be imminent – without a secure supply of fossil fuels. EU lawmakers and NATO officials met this week to assess how reliance on oil affects military readiness, according to Euractiv.The proposed solution looks distinctly like a notorious Brussels brainchild – conceived in strict adherence to the EU’s green agenda, impractical, and intended to…

Over one in every four people in Germany, or nearly 22 million, now have an “immigration history”, according to the country’s national statistician. A report from the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) has found that the proportion of people living in Germany with an immigration history rose by 0.5 per cent last year to a record 26.3 per cent. The category is defined as someone who has either immigrated to Germany since 1950 or who has two parents that came to the country as migrants. This is significantly stricter than the previously used category of “migration background”, which is defined in…

Thursday, during an appearance on Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) warned against putting trust in the Iranian regime, which has agreed to a ceasefire and opening the Strait of Hormuz. “Now, if they chose the hard way, there would be more damage done, and it would prevent Iran from building up their economy, fermenting terror,” host Sean Hannity said. “There are advantages to that. However, I do applaud the president for his desire for peace and giving them a moment, an opportunity, a window. Knowing Donald Trump, that window is not going to be open very long for…

Tehran has accused Washington of breaking international law by infringing upon its maritime commerce The US has expanded its blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, telling its military to pursue Iran-linked vessels everywhere around the globe, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Dan Caine, has said.Washington announced it would stop ships from accessing Iranian ports on Monday after talks with Tehran’s representatives in Pakistan failed. Iran shut the Strait of Hormuz for the Americans and their allies following the US-Israeli attack on the country on February 28. The US blockade of the key waterway, accounting for some 20%…

April 16 (UPI) — Netflix found and former CEO Reed Hastings announced on Thursday that he will resign from its board and leave the company later this year. Hastings, whose idea for a mail-based DVD rental service that invented the television and movie streaming industry, said in a statement that when his term as chairman of the Netflix board ends in June, he will not seek re-election, The Los Angeles Times reported. He said he made the decision to leave because the company’s current co-chief executives, Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters, are “so strong that I can focus on new…

On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Ingraham Angle,” Amb. Nathan Sales, who served as Coordinator for Counterterrorism during the first Trump administration, said that “our squeeze of the Iranian economy is not something that’s necessarily going to produce results instantaneously. It might require several weeks of patience, maybe several months of patience before those compounding economic harms [can] really be felt in Tehran and start to change the regime’s behavior.” Sales began by saying that [relevant remarks begin around 3:05] “China is going to be feeling the hurt right now in much the same way that the mullahs…

A global outage of SpaceX’s Starlink satellite network last year left two dozen U.S. Navy unmanned vessels stranded off the California coast, disrupting communications and halting operations for nearly an hour during critical military tests. Reuters reports that the incident involving drones designed to enhance U.S. military capabilities in potential conflicts with China was one of several Navy test disruptions linked to Starlink, according to internal Navy documents reviewed by Reuters and a person familiar with the matter. During a series of Navy tests in California in April 2025 involving unmanned boats and flying drones, officials reported that Starlink struggled…