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BP appoints Woodside Energy chief Meg O’Neill as new CEO
LONDON (Realist English). British oil major BP has appointed Meg O’Neill, the current chief executive of Australia’s Woodside Energy, as...
Trump orders blockade of sanctioned oil tankers to and from Venezuela
WASHINGTON (Realist English). U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday ordered a “total and complete blockade” of all sanctioned oil tankers...
Canada advances major west-coast pipeline to cut reliance on US market
OTTAWA (Realist English). Prime Minister Mark Carney has reached a landmark agreement with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith to begin work...
Canada’s western rift deepens as Alberta pushes new pipeline to Pacific despite fierce opposition from British Columbia
OTTAWA (Realist English). Canada’s effort to reduce its economic dependence on the United States is colliding with a renewed battle...
IEA says global oil and gas demand will keep rising until 2050, dashing hopes for rapid energy transition
PARIS (Realist English). Global demand for oil and gas is likely to continue rising until 2050, the International Energy Agency...
OPEC+ halts planned output hikes amid fears of oil glut in early 2026
VIENNA (Realist English). The OPEC+ alliance has decided to pause its oil production increases in the first quarter of 2026,...
ExxonMobil beats forecasts for sixth straight quarter, fueled by Guyana expansion
HOUSTON (Realist English). ExxonMobil Corp. has once again surpassed Wall Street expectations, posting stronger-than-expected third-quarter results on the back of...
Oil majors face investor backlash as falling crude prices force cuts to buybacks and spending
LONDON (Realist English). The world’s biggest oil companies are being forced to make difficult financial choices as falling crude prices...
Opec+ agrees modest output hike after market jitters over larger increase
VIENNA (Realist English). Opec+ has agreed to raise oil production by a modest 137,000 barrels per day starting in November,...
Armenian battalion named after Marshal Bagramyan established in Donetsk: veterans of Abkhazia hand over their banner to Donbas volunteers
MOSCOW (Realist English). On 6 May, a historic ceremony of handing over a battle banner took place at the Cathedral of...
Sheaito Moussallam: Iran is the main obstacle to Greater Israel
BEIRUT (Realist English). The Middle East today is an echo of exploding bombs, diplomatic dead ends, and dozens of contradictory interpretations...
‘Capitalism is facing a crisis of legitimacy’: Larry Fink on inequality, AI and the evolution of markets
NEW YORK (Realist English). Larry Fink, founder and CEO of BlackRock, the world's largest investment company with $14 trillion in assets...
Maria Nikiforova: Young people of the liberated territories are waiting for peace and justice
MOSCOW (Realist English). Maria Nikiforova, an expert on youth policy at the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian...
Is Iran’s survival not a victory? Tehran under US and Israeli pressure
TEL AVIV (Realist English). For decades, Iran defined victory in expansive terms: exporting revolution, rolling back US influence, and ultimately eliminating...
UAE boosts production bypassing OPEC, but oil prices rise
MOSCOW (Realist English). Leading researcher at IMEMO RAS, Candidate of Historical Sciences Stanislav Ivanov has analysed for Realist English the possible consequences of...
Kurdish Genocide: From the Ottoman Empire to Erdoğan — a Chronicle of a Century of Terror
ISTANBUL (Realist English). Crimes against the Kurdish people have not been isolated episodes but have been carried out by successive Turkish...
Will Trump and Xi Agree on a New World Order?
BEIJING (Realist English). Relations between the United States and China in May 2026 can best be described as an “armed...
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