Mexico Just Gave Workers the Legal Right to Ignore Their Boss After Hours—and a Shorter Workweek by 2030
Mexico just gave 13.5 million workers the legal right to ignore their boss’s calls, messages, and emails after their shift ends. It also cut the working week to 40 hours by 2030. And it made it unconstitutional for employers to cut anyone’s pay in response.
What Cuba’s Free-Market Reforms Actually Mean
Cuba’s Communist Party just approved its most sweeping economic reforms since the revolution. Here’s what’s actually in them, why they happened now, and why the history suggests caution.
Putin’s ‘Adoring Crowd’ in Kazan Were Paid Extras—His Own Bodyguard Said So on Camera
Putin flew to Kazan for a two-day ASEAN summit — and a bodyguard accidentally revealed his hero’s welcome was staged.
The War Came to Moscow: Black Rain, 555 Drones, and Zelensky’s Message to Putin
Ukraine just launched the biggest drone attack of the war — and hit the refinery that supplies 40% of the Russian capital’s fuel.
Iran Pulls Delegation Over Lebanon Attacks, Leaving Vance’s Switzerland Trip in Limbo
The first formal round of U.S.-Iran nuclear negotiations has been thrown into doubt after Iran pulled its delegation from a planned trip to Switzerland, citing Israel’s ongoing military operations in Lebanon as a violation of the framework agreement that was supposed to govern the talks. Lebanese territory has become the sticking point. Iranian officials contend […]
Equinor Lifts Bay Du Nord Reserve Estimate to 550 Million Barrels
Equinor has revised its recoverable reserve estimate for Bay du Nord upward to 550 million barrels, a figure that now stands nearly double the 300 million barrels projected when the deepwater project was first conceived and well above the 430 million barrels cited in more recent assessments. At Equinor’s Capital Markets Day presentation at the […]
Iran Publishes Signed MoU As Moscow Sanctions Test Begins
Iran has released what it says is the executed Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding with the US, a document that moves the conflict into a narrow 60-day implementation window before the hardest terms are settled. IRNA, Iran’s state news agency, published the full text of the MoU. Reuters reported that the White House submitted the interim […]
Ukraine Hits Moscow Refinery And Tests Russia’s Air Defenses
Ukraine’s latest strike on Moscow has turned the Russian capital’s refinery network into a test of repair capacity, fuel rerouting, and air-defense economics. The attack hit the Moscow Oil Refinery, a Gazprom Neft-operated facility that serves the capital region and has now been struck twice in the same week. Russian officials said hundreds of Ukrainian […]
Apple’s Next Chips Could Be Built by Intel
Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) is returning to Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) as a chip partner, with President Donald Trump announcing Thursday that the two companies have agreed to design and manufacture chips together in the United States. The deal marks a significant shift for Apple, which abandoned Intel processors in 2020 in favour of its in-house M-series […]
Kuwait Accelerates Oil Output Recovery, Targets 2M Barrels Within a Week
Kuwait Petroleum is moving faster than anyone expected to bring its oil production back online, with CEO Sheikh Nawaf Al-Sabah saying the country will surpass 2 million barrels per day within a week and could return to full prewar output levels in a matter of weeks after that. The accelerated timeline is a significant departure […]