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Israel’s Navitas Petroleum has brought into its fold a stake in a block off the coast of South Africa through a deal with Eco (Atlantic) Oil & Gas, an AIM-listed and Canada-headquartered oil and gas company focused on the Atlantic Margin.   The signing ceremony was held in Cape Town with Aleks Armstrong, Vice President (VP) of Subsurface at Navitas Petroleum, Dr. Bongani Sayidini, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Petroleum Agency SA (PASA), and Gil Holzman, CEO of Eco Atlantic Oil & Gas; Courtesy of Navitas Navitas has confirmed the completion of the acquisition of a 37.5% working interest in…

Reporting Highlights Probe: In 2024, the FBI sought to launch a sweeping pay-to-play investigation examining interactions between Sen. Susan Collins and a top donor, records and emails show. Confession: The donor, an ex-defense contractor, told agents his company won millions in federal contracts by bankrolling campaigns of powerful politicians. Shutdown: After Donald Trump returned to office, the investigation died, a casualty of his purge of the FBI. Its closure shut a potential window into how Washington works. These highlights were written by the reporters and editors who worked on this story. In the final weeks of 2019, a top fundraiser…

Reading Time: 5 minutes In a year of extreme weather fluctuations, from a record 26 inches of rain in the first six months in northeast Wisconsin to drought conditions and poor air quality from distant wildfires, climate change is happening before our very eyes, experts say. “Climate change is going to affect everybody. It is important to bring it back to the forefront,” said Bart De Stasio, professor emeritus of biology at Lawrence University in Appleton. “It’s fallen off the radar unfortunately because of the political climate we’re in right now.” Sign up for Northeast News, our free email newsletter…

The US president, Donald Trump, asked recently on one of his Truth Social rants: “When are the Iranian people going to rise up and fight?” So frenetic and all-over-the-place are Trump’s statements that one does not know which are actual policies and which are simply noise. But if counting on the “Iranian people” to rise up and fight is indeed US policy then, as far as I can tell from within Iran, it is a failed one. And miserably so. At least for now.There is no reliable nationwide polling that can tell us what Iranians think about the war in…

Claim: Mike Rogers, the 2026 Republican candidate for a U.S. Senate seat to represent Michigan, has received nearly $4.7 million from donors who appeared in the Epstein files. Rating: What’s True Rogers has directly received campaign donations from people who appeared in the Epstein files. What’s False Contrary to the claim’s implication, Rogers received much of these funds during his 2024 Senate campaign, not his 2026 campaign. Furthermore, these donors sent most of the funds to independent PACs supporting Rogers, not directly to Rogers’ campaign. What’s Undetermined Being named in the Epstein files is not necessarily evidence of wrongdoing. It’s…

A 65-year-old doctor has appeared in court, the first person in the UK to be charged over the genocide in Rwanda in 1994. Dr Vincent Brown, formerly Dr Vincent Bajinya, who is in custody, confirmed his name and address from the dock at Westminster Magistrates’ Court.He was charged following a seven year British investigation into the killings.He was told he faced a charge of conduct ancillary to genocide and six offences of conduct ancillary to murder, as a crime against humanity.The case was passed to the Old Bailey for a hearing on 9 October. A bail application will be considered…

He asked the European Commission to delay by one year new EU rules that will impose fines on oil and gas companies which fail to report their methane emissions. The methane regulation is designed to reduce emissions of one of the most potent planet-warming gases which are often released during the production and transport of coal, oil and natural gas. But it has been heavily criticized by the U.S. government and fossil fuel sector, who say it will frighten off oil and gas importers and endanger Europe’s energy security. The Commission had already recommended member countries hold off fining offenders…

Burnham told reporters his own speech to the UN General Assembly later would reflect on the decade since the Brexit vote and the “turbulence comes when outside actors seek to manipulate, to distort facts, influence the British democratic process”. “Going into the next decade, we need to be clear-eyed about that and become stronger and more on the front foot about challenging that,” he said.Asked if he would rule out making a pledge to rejoin the EU at the next general election, Burnham said: “Our focus at the moment is on a UK-EU summit which we hope will take place…

Another MP known to oppose the company is Clive Lewis, a vocal supporter of Burnham’s ascension to Downing Street. “By taking on contracts across the NHS, policing, defense, and other public services, Palantir followed a coordinated strategy to embed themselves deeper and deeper into the British state,” he tells WIRED. “This leaves us dangerously exposed to the whims of a shady spy tech company that operates under the laws of the US, not our own.”But on the other side, there are plenty of politicians and advisors close to Burnham who quietly advocate for the firm’s work in the UK. One…

A malicious npm package named “indexed-btree” has been observed hiding its malicious behavior within application code rather than using lifecycle scripts, indicating that threat actors are likely shifting tactics in response to recent security controls. “Indexed-btree is a malicious npm package mimicking the legit sorted-btree package, an ordinary B-tree/indexing utility,” Checkmarx said. “Unlike the common attacks we’ve seen in the supply chain space, this package does not rely on preinstall / postinstall at all. Instead, it runs entirely from application code at runtime.” The package and the associated GitHub repository are no longer available for download from npm. However, statistics…