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Oil Companies Warn Against Negative Impact Of Operational Budget Delays

2 mn readThe Arabian Gulf Oil Company (AGOCO), National Construction and Al-Jawf companies have warned of negative consequences due to the continued delay in disbursing their operational budgets, considering this issue a major obstacle to projects aimed at increasing production. The warning came during the first session of the General Assembly of the National Oil Corporation (NOC) […]

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How Russia launched a giant space mirror in 1993

6 mn readVladimir Syromiatnikov’s bold attempts to light up Siberia with a space mirror captured global attention. The BBC’s Tomorrow’s World reported on an ambitious experiment that was launched on 4 February 1993. It sounds like a scheme a James Bond villain might hatch: launching a giant mirror into orbit to harness the Sun’s rays, then redirecting […]

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Capital One accused of ‘cheating millions of customers’

2 mn readCapital One is being sued by the US government’s consumer watchdog agency for “cheating millions of consumers” and not paying more than $2 billion in interest to holders of its high-interest savings accounts. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) accuses Capital One of freezing the interest rates of its flagship “360 Savings” accounts at low […]

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Google Maps will change the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America

< 1 mn readGoogle is complying with President Donald Trump’s executive action that renamed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. Soon, the name change will appear on Google Maps. In a post on X, Google explained that it has a “longstanding practice of applying name changes when they have been updated in official government sources.” […]

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Trump challenges Congress’ power with plan to shutter USAID

4 mn readDonald Trump’s apparent plans to shutter the US Agency for International Development without congressional authority represent another unprecedented move by a president who, since taking office two weeks ago, has been testing the limits of his office by defying longstanding legal and political principles, legal experts told CNN. The decades-old agency appeared to be in […]

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Nigeria union rejects telecom tariff hike, plans nationwide protest

< 1 mn readNigeria’s main labour union has rejected a government-approved 50% hike in telecommunications tariffs and announced plans for a nationwide protest on Feb. 4. The telecoms regulator last week approved the increase in mobile tariffs, the first such hike in more than a decade, bowing to pressure from operators struggling with surging costs amid high inflation […]

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