Category: Energy News Beat

The Geopolitical Problem of the US—a German-Russo-Japanese Connection

Energy News Beat ENB Pub Note: George McMillan III, ENB Contributor, and geopolitical energy expert, wrote this article. He was on an earlier podcast where we covered a fantastic global overview, and are tracking around the world in more detail. We are recording another podcast this week, and have several more articles in his series […]

Coached to death: How stiff competition to get into universities in the world’s most populous country becomes a race for life

Energy News Beat India’s coaching hubs, like small-city Kota, have become big business, but as students face pressure to perform, suicide is now a pressing public health issue Rahul is an 18-year-old engineering aspirant from northern India currently in Kota, a small city in northern India’s desert state of Rajasthan, where he is preparing for […]

As Gaza reels, Ukraine war feels suddenly distant in Global South nations

Energy News Beat Jaipur, India – Even though Ukraine lies 6,000km (3,728 miles), two seas and half a dozen national borders away from Ali Hussein’s hometown, the raven-haired 29-year-old tour guide still feels for the war-torn ex-Soviet nation. “India is close to Russia and we buy Russian weapons, [but] I am fully on Ukraine’s side,” […]

Rice, beans and best friends: A Nigerian embrace for Cameroonian refugees

Energy News Beat Ogoja, Nigeria – Rebecca stares down her sandy street past the palm trees and T-junction. No sign of Blessing. It is already after 7:30am, and their school’s morning assembly will soon start. Rebecca sighs with relief when she sees her friend running towards her. “Sorry, sorry,” Blessing gasps, “I had to queue […]

‘Like we were lesser humans’: Gaza boys, men recall Israeli arrest, torture

Energy News Beat Deir el-Balah, Gaza Strip – Inside one of the rooms of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, Mahmoud Zindah stays close to his father, Nader, the horrors of the past week etched on both of their faces. Their eyes are wide, darting around. The 14-year-old and his father were among hundreds of Palestinians rounded up […]

Israeli forces launch deadly West Bank raids, pound Gaza ahead of UN vote

Energy News Beat Israeli forces have carried out deadly raids in the occupied West Bank while shelling and bombing many areas in the Gaza Strip in advance of a United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) meeting to discuss an “immediate humanitarian ceasefire”. At least four Palestinians were killed on Tuesday in the most intense raid in […]

Foreign forces leave conflict-torn East African country

Energy News Beat Nearly a thousand Burundian soldiers have left DR Congo after their mission was terminated by Kinshasa A regional military force has removed almost a thousand Burundian soldiers from from DR Congo as part of a phased withdrawal, Burundi’s military said on Monday. The DR Congo government in Kinshasa has decided to not renew […]

Additional US military aid to Ukraine will be a ‘fiasco’, Kremlin says

Energy News Beat News|Russia-Ukraine war Any further United States aid to Ukraine will be a “fiasco”, the Kremlin has said ahead of a meeting in Washington between US President Joe Biden and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Moscow is also “very attentively” watching developments as the two leaders are set to meet on Tuesday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry […]

UN to vote on ceasefire amid Gaza starvation concerns

Energy News Beat A UN refugee agency says too many people in the Palestinian enclave haven’t eaten for days The population of Gaza is suffering from hunger as the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) prepares to vote on a humanitarian ceasefire on Tuesday, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) reported. […]

Japan’s NYK working to replace propulsion on Moss-type LNG carriers

Energy News Beat Japan’s shipping giant NYK is working with Namura Shipbuilding and Sasebo Heavy Industries to replace the main propulsion on steam turbine–driven Moss-type LNG carriers with a dual-fuel diesel engine. In October, NYK has received an approval in principle from the Japanese classification society Class NK to convert the steam turbine of an […]