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China-based provider of clean energy services Wison New Energies (WNE) has joined forces with the UK-headquartered energy giant Shell to bring the European firm’s liquefaction technology to the wider liquefied natural gas (LNG) market for the first time, strengthening Wison’s floating LNG (FLNG) offering and aiming to accelerate deployment of next-generation FLNG projects. Illustration; Source: Wison New Energies Wison New Energies has signed a collaboration agreement to integrate Shell’s dual mixed refrigerant (DMR) liquefaction technology into the Chinese firm’s FLNG offerings, reflecting a shared ambition to accelerate the deployment of next-generation FLNG solutions. Xuan Chi (Damien) Nguyen, Chief Technology Officer of…

MIAMI (AP) — The National Hurricane Center issued a tropical storm warning on Monday for the Gulf of Mexico coast from the Galveston and Houston, Texas, area to the western parishes of Louisiana. As of late Monday morning, the potential tropical cyclone was centered about 120 miles (195 kilometers) south-southeast of Morgan City, Louisiana, and 230 miles (370 kilometers) southeast of Port Arthur, Texas, with maximum sustained winds of 35 mph (55 kph). It was forecast to strengthen into a named tropical storm by Monday night and make landfall in Texas on Tuesday. Forecasters are expecting 3-5 inches (7-12 centimeters)…

Jimmie “Chris” Duncan wiped the sweat off his forehead as he assessed his temporary home from the parking lot of a rundown motel in central Louisiana. Sure, there’s drug dealing and prostitution, he said on a recent summer afternoon. And he suspected his neighbors were cooking meth on a floor below the room he paid $350 a week to rent. But, he said, “I feel safe here. I mean, I’ve been on death row. I feel safe anywhere.” Duncan had spent the last three decades trying to prove his innocence after a jury convicted him of killing his former girlfriend’s…

Claim: In August 2026, U.S. President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social that the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York said he wouldn’t be allowed to speak at the 25th-anniversary remembrance and that he was “looking into shutting them down permanently.” Rating: In late August 2026, people shared a rumor alleging U.S. President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social that the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York said he wouldn’t be allowed to speak at the 25th-anniversary remembrance, adding that his administration was “looking into shutting them down permanently.” For example, on Aug. 30,…

Remarks come in response to concerns from Democrats that military could be used to interfere in elections.Published On 31 Aug 202631 Aug 2026The chairman of the United States Joint Chiefs of Staff, the country’s highest ranking military officer, has assured an opposition lawmaker that there are no plans to deploy troops to polling places during elections on November 3.“The Joint Force has no plans to send Federal military personnel or Federalized members of the National Guard to polling places during the 2026 elections,” General Dan Caine said in the letter obtained on Monday by The Associated Press news agency. “Likewise,…

El-Enany toured the cathedral with Ukraine’s minister of culture, Tetyana Berezhna, who told me the cultural and military impacts of Russia’s war should not be separated.”This is an existential war, so Russia wants to destroy us as a nation, to erase us as a nation, like Ukrainians do not exist and have never existed. That’s why Russia targets our cultural heritage, the symbols of our presence here for a long time.”They understand that it’s very important for us because we protect our identity, we protect our culture, and Russia wants to ruin everything that it cannot appropriate.”Berezhna says Russia has…

The amount of money the Internal Revenue Service collected from audits dropped dramatically last year after the Trump administration pushed out many of the agency’s employees, according to a watchdog report released on Monday.The report from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, called TIGTA, showed that I.R.S. audits brought in $6.5 billion in fiscal year 2025, a 35 percent decrease from the $10 billion that audits elicited the previous year. That plunge came after President Trump, at the start of his second term, moved to reduce the size of the federal work force, a push that resulted in the…

Kemi Badenoch has kicked off the return to parliament with a reshuffle of her top team in order to take on Andy Burnham and Reform UK. She has made sweeping changes to the shadow cabinet and ruthlessly axed her shadow chancellor. Here is a run-down of the new characters sitting across from Labour on the opposition frontbench.Andrew GriffithGriffith, the MP for Arundel and South Downs, replaces Mel Stride as shadow chancellor, a role he has reportedly long coveted. He is loyal to Badenoch and was one of her first backers for leader in 2024.Previously the chief financial officer and chief…

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for freeYour guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the worldDonald Trump has said Americans opposing construction of AI data centres want to end up “backwards and poor”, even as Republican lawmakers vow to stem the rollout of the unpopular projects ahead of the midterm elections.The US president made his intervention hours before a scheduled appearance by his vice-president JD Vance in Michigan, where a bipartisan backlash against data centres has led the candidate for the US Senate, Trump-endorsed Mike Rogers, to call for a one-year statewide moratorium on the…

Labor Day weekend is almost here, and the last several weeks have been packed with end-of-summer sales. Now, we’re ready to unpack our readers’ favorite items from the month of August.Also: Want a free Apple Watch? Play ZDNET’s ‘Guessing Game’ to win one – ends September 1We gathered data on all the products our readers bought the most last month via links in ZDNET reviews, buying guides, deal posts, and other content on our site. The following are the most popular items purchased by thousands of people, listed by the number purchased in August (note that your privacy is protected; we…