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China on Tuesday condemned President Donald Trump’s imposition of secondary tariffs on countries purchasing Venezuelan oil and called for the U.S. to cease its “interference” in the South American nation.

Russian President Vladimir Putin sent a message to Syria’s “interim president” Ahmed al-Sharaa on Thursday, offering “practical cooperation” and “friendly” relations to “stabilize the situation in the country as soon as possible.”

On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,” Energy Secretary Chris Wright stated that when ports that harbored sanctioned Iranian tankers were targeted during the first Trump term, it significantly decreased Iranian oil experts and this “stopped significant

CBS News reported on Thursday that the Trump administration is considering further restrictions on Russian oil, gas, and banking, even as the European Union (EU) prepares to remove several ultra-rich Russian oligarchs from its sanctions list under pressure from Hungary and Slovakia.

Foul play “not been ruled out” by White House after jet fuel-carrying tanker ship indirectly contracted to D.O.D. burns off east coast of UK.

The European Union (EU) has been talking very tough about its unwavering and unlimited support for Ukraine since Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s disastrous visit to the White House, but data published by an independent research organization shows the EU spent more on Russian oil and gas in 2024 than it spent on Ukraine.

Oil deliveries to the Czech Republic from Russia have been halted, the state company operating the pipeline network said Tuesday.

Venezuela’s socialist regime criticized President Donald Trump’s decision to revoke an oil license granted by former President Joe Biden.

Former Iranian parliamentarian Mohammad-Javad Larijani told the Iranian Labor News Agency (ILNA) on Tuesday that Iran refuses to hold talks with the Trump administration because it fears the U.S. would use economic leverage to control Tehran, as it is allegedly doing with Ukraine.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese dictator Xi Jinping held a telephone conversation on Monday in which they reportedly discussed the efforts of “relevant parties” to “make positive efforts to defuse the Ukraine crisis.”

President Trump said after meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday that India will increase its purchases of American oil and military hardware, culminating in India’s purchase of the advanced F-35 fighter jet.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Chris Jansing Reports,” Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI) discussed President Donald Trump’s tariff threat on Canada and stated that “if you’re looking at getting oil, if we’re not going to have oil in the United States,

Long-range drones struck one of Russia´s biggest oil refineries for the second time in three days, a senior Kyiv official said Monday.

President Donald Trump said on Thursday he would like to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin “immediately” to negotiate an end to the Ukraine war. Putin responded on Friday that the Ukraine war might have been avoided if the 2020 U.S. presidential election had not been “stolen” from Trump.

Within hours of President Donald Trump’s inauguration on Monday, Chinese and Russian leaders Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin held a 90-minute telephone conference to “deepen strategic coordination” and look out for each other’s interests in the “current global situation.”

California-based company Chevron filed tax returns worth about $300 million to the Venezuelan socialist regime, raising questions about how much dictator Nicolás Maduro benefits from Chevron’s oil production despite existing oil sanctions, Bloomberg reported on Thursday.

During an interview with “PBS NewsHour” aired on Friday, White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan argued that squeezing Venezuela’s oil sector hasn’t worked and that more targeted sanctions and rewards for information leading to the arrest of bad actors

During an interview with “PBS NewsHour” aired on Friday, White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan defended waiting to impose the large sanctions on Russia’s energy the Biden administration imposed on Friday by stating that “If we had sanctioned Russia’s

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Thursday reminded President-elect Donald Trump, who hopes to acquire Greenland, that Russia will protect its “strategic interests” in the Arctic region.

President-elect Donald Trump will not let Joe Biden’s ban on oil and gas drilling in certain federal waters stand in the way of providing Americans with inexpensive and abundant energy, according to spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt in an exclusive interview with Breitbart Confidential.

American business announces leftist tax hikes has prompted it to withdraw from North Sea oil, Trump warns UK is “making a very big mistake”. 

A major electricity interconnector unexpectedly went offline on Christmas day, with officials saying they are not ruling out sabotage.

Oil delivery to the Czech Republic from Russia through the Druhzba pipeline has resumed, the pipeline operator said.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of Bloomberg’s “Balance of Power,” Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-MA) urged President Joe Biden to “enforce the oil export sanctions against Iran with more muscle and vigor.” And said that because Iran is currently in a weak position,

Iranian Vice President Shina Ansari used the COP29 climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan on Wednesday as a platform to demand sanctions relief for the terrorism-supporting regime in Tehran.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, whose country is hosting the COP29 climate summit this week, lashed out at Western media and climate activists on Tuesday for criticizing his country’s oil and gas industries.

Worldwide oil prices dropped roughly two percent on Monday after a comparable fall on Friday, driven by investor disappointment with the Chinese government’s weak economic stimulus plan.

Kim Tae-hyo, deputy national security adviser to South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol, said on Wednesday that Seoul will “work to establish a perfect Korea-U.S. security posture with the new Washington administration to ensure unwavering national security.”

On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “AC360,” CNN International host Christiane Amanpour discussed Israel’s strikes on Iran and the fact that the strikes did not hit Iran’s oil facilities and said that “the United States did not want, potentially, the global

During an interview with the Fox News Channel that took place on Tuesday and was released on Wednesday on the “Fox News Rundown” podcast “Evening Edition,” Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin responded to a question on whether he and President

Climate groups are crying foul that Azerbaijan, host of the COP29 global climate summit in November, is planning to dramatically increase its production of natural gas over the next decade.

Israeli media reported on Sunday that the Biden administration has offered Israel a “compensation package” in exchange for refraining from attacks on a list of specific targets in Iran.

Ukraine´s military said it struck a major oil terminal in Crimea that provides fuel for Russia´s war effort.

On Friday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street,” CNBC Contributor and Global Head of Commodity Strategy for RBC Capital Markets Helima Croft stated that “five years ago, we saw more significant sanctions enforcement” on Iranian oil, but “Now, we

Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim on Thursday rebuffed efforts by China to bully Malaysia away from oil and gas exploration in the South China Sea. Anwar’s government is investigating a leaked Chinese diplomatic note that accused Malaysia of violating Chinese sovereignty by working near the oil-rich Luconia Shoals.

A group of business leaders is suing Texas officials for prohibiting the government from contracting firms that boycott energy companies.