Crisis
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Crude Oil Markets: Prices to Hit $100 Per Barrel; OPEC Could Lift Output Curbs; Supply Crisis by 2024
China upset US shot down its spy balloon; says it didnt pose military or physical threat [details] Crude oil prices will likely rise above $100 a barrel by the middle…
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Egyptians Hope To Bag Bargains At Book Fair As Crisis Bites
The 54th Cairo International Book Fair was overshadowed by a punishing economic crisis that has seen the Egyptian pound halve in value and prices skyrocket AFP Thousands of Egyptian bibliophiles…
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Canadian Province Tries Decriminalizing Drugs To Fight Overdose Crisis
Ryan Maddeaux, secretary of the BC Association of People on Opiate Maintenance (BCAPOM) reflects as the province of British Columbia decriminalized the possession of small amounts of cocaine, methamphetamine, MDMA…
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Pakistan Braces For Fuel Shortages Amid Liquidity Crisis
People wait their turn to get fuel at a petrol station, in Karachi, Pakistan June 2, 2022. Picture taken June 2, 2022. Reuters Pakistan could face a crunch in fuel…
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Sudanese Tighten Belts As Economic Crisis Grinds On
Sudanese shop owners complain their sales have plummeted over the past six months as inflation has sapped the purchasing power of their customers AFP As Sudan’s economic crisis drags on,…
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Dozens Of Yanomami Children Hospitalized In Northern Brazil Amid Health Crisis
A nurse talks to a mother belonging to the Yanomami indigenous group, whose son is treated for malnutrition at the special yard for indigenous people of the Santo Antonio Children’s…
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U.S. Soccer Crisis Deepens As Top Team Officials Quit
U.S. soccer president Cindy Parlow Cone says the departure of two top national team officials has created a ‘clean canvas’ AFP The United States men’s national team, already without a…
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Bipartisan U.S. Lawmakers Preparing Plan To Avert Debt-ceiling Crisis
A general view of the U.S. Capitol after United States on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S. August 6, 2022. Reuters A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers is preparing a…
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Europe Neglects Nagorno Karabakh Humanitarian Crisis? Azerbaijan Blockade of Lachin Corridor Enters 40th Day
The Armenia-Azerbaijan standoff has resulted in the blocking of a key lifeline for the Armenian people in Nagorno-Karabakh, triggering a humanitarian crisis. Armenians trapped inside Nagorno-Karabakh say Baku has set…
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Israel’s Herzog Tries To Prevent ‘Constitutional Crisis’ Over Judicial Reforms
Israeli President Isaac Herzog and newly-elected Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pose for a group photograph with members of the new Israeli government after their swearing-in ceremony, at the president’s residence…
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Germany’s Energy Crisis Powers Hydrogen Switch
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is flanked by Joachim Kreysing, managing director of Infraserv Hoechst, as he visits a hydrogen station for trains at the former headquarters of German chemical firm…
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El Paso Community Helps Migrants Stay Warm Amid Freezing Temperatures And Border Crisis
The winter storm wreaking havoc across the United States is also affecting El Paso, the Texas border town currently facing an influx of migrants who have yet to turn themselves…
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Extinction Crisis Puts 1 Million Species On The Brink
A female Iberian lynx, a feline in danger of extinction, named Ilexa is released with other four lynxes, as part of the European project ‘Life LynxConnect’ to recover this species…
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Ghana To Default On Most External Debt As Economic Crisis Worsens
A general view of Adabraka in Accra, Ghana, December 5, 2016. Reuters Ghana on Monday suspended payments on most of its external debt, effectively defaulting as the country struggles to…
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Australia’s Housing Crisis, Largely Hidden, Is Getting Worse
Volunteers prepare holiday treats in a common room at the temporary accommodations of the “Ready To Work Housing” programme, run by the Dignity homelessness services charity in Campbelltown, near Sydney,…
