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In a bid to strike a balance between maximizing asset longevity and curbing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, Perenco Brasil, a subsidiary of Anglo-French oil and gas player Perenco, is joining forces with Porto do Açu to bring shore power directly to its offshore fields in the Campos Basin off the coast of Brazil. Cherne is entering a new chapter; Source: DORIS Porto do Açu and Perenco have signed a letter of intent (LOI) to develop what is being described as the first offshore platform electrification project in the Campos Basin. The initiative will link the operator’s shallow-water Pargo and Cherne…

Reading Time: 7 minutes Click here to read highlights from the story Wisconsin home health agencies and nursing homes have abandoned plans to hire overseas workers after federal authorities suspended nearly all refugee programs and terminated Temporary Protected Status for people from 13 countries. Immigrants make up 30% of direct care workers nationwide, including nursing assistants, personal care aides and home health aides, according to KFF. In-home and assisted living agencies, including one in the Fox Cities, had to stop plans years in the making to hire international workers. Some also lost staff who had Temporary Protected Status. Organizations that…

Welcome to Foreign Policy’s China Brief. The highlights this week: Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Donald Trump prepare to meet in Washington, purged Chinese military leaders are officially expelled, and the United States dismantles some of its top China-focused think tanks. Welcome to Foreign Policy’s China Brief. The highlights this week: Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Donald Trump prepare to meet in Washington, purged Chinese military leaders are officially expelled, and the United States dismantles some of its top China-focused think tanks. Trump-Xi Summit Preview This week, U.S. President Donald Trump sat down with the socialist leader of…

A video showing a large demonstration in Thessaloniki, Greece, has been shared on Facebook with captions implying that the country is currently facing nationwide protests.One Facebook post sharing the footage on 6 September 2026 said: “GREECE IS PARALYZED; airports at a standstill, ports at a standstill, factories at a standstill, trains at a standstill, EVERYTHING IS AT A STANDSTILL.” Another from a few days earlier said: “#Greece PARALYSED as massive PROTESTS erupt across the country.”But the clip which is circulating is not recent—it’s from February 2025, when mass protests took place across the country—and there have been no recent reports…

François Picard is pleased to welcome Eoghan Gilmartin, an award-winning investigative journalist and part of The Guardian team whose investigation examined links between IPCC authors and Saudi Arabia’s oil industry, including Saudi Aramco. Their findings take us to the intersection of climate science, political and economic interests, and institutional credibility, and into the politically consequential terrain of climate mitigation: how societies decide to respond to climate change. The investigation identified 20 authors whose affiliations raised what Gilmartin describes as significant conflict-of-interest concerns, including 11 with links to Saudi Aramco or Saudi state institutions. This raises a broader question about the production…

Eight Sleep announced the next version of its “intelligent sleep system” designed to regulate the temperature of your bed in response to tracked health and sleep metrics like breathing and heart rate. The company calls its new Pod 6 system its “most significant hardware launch to date,” and it’s centered around a redesigned cooling hub that’s now small enough to hide beneath most beds. The new system is cheaper than Eight Sleep’s Pod 5 that launched in 2025, but is still by no means cheap.The Pod 6 is now available through Eight Sleep’s online store. The Standard version ranges in…

Microsoft has notified IT administrators that users may experience Always On VPN connection issues after installing the September 2026 Windows 11 security updates. Always On VPN is a remote access solution that replaces the legacy DirectAccess technology and works with domain-joined, non-domain-joined, and Microsoft Entra ID–joined devices. It is available on Windows 10, Windows 11, and Windows Server, and it runs seamlessly in the background, establishing a secure tunnel back to the corporate network automatically whenever a device connects to the internet. Always On VPN also lets administrators define which apps and services can use the VPN connection, and it…

Bitcoin Cash jumped 28% to nearly $349 over 24 hours, the largest move among sizeable tokens, after CME Group said on Monday it will list Bitcoin Cash and Uniswap futures from Oct. 19.Futures on a regulated U.S. exchange give funds a way to take a position without holding the coin, which matters for institutions whose mandates bar them from custodying crypto directly. It also gives market makers a hedging venue, which usually tightens spot pricing.Bitcoin itself is trading around $85,800, down under 1% over 24 hours after matching Monday’s intraday high near $87,300 and meeting the same selling into it.…

Welcome to Foreign Policy’s Southeast Asia Brief. The highlights this week: Malaysia’s Najib Razak is granted clemency by the king for a second time; the global fuel crisis puts regional airline AirAsia on the brink; and plans by Taiwan to open a new representative’s office in Cebu have created a stir. Malaysia’s top crook gets leniency On Friday, Malaysia’s king granted clemency for a second time to the country’s most notorious criminal—former prime minister Najib Razak—allowing him to serve his remaining sentence under house arrest. Convicted of embezzling millions of dollars from 1Malaysia Development Berhad, a state investment fund, Najib…

Last week on his GB News show, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage claimed that because of ongoing tax threshold freezes and the increasing value of the state pension under the triple lock “we’re going to be dragging about nine million pensioners into taxation”.This is misleading. We’ve contacted Mr Farage to ask what his figure is based on, but nine million is broadly the total number of pensioners who are currently paying income tax, most of whom would be paying it even without the threshold freezes.Around 600,000 more pensioners have been brought into paying income tax as a result of the…