ABE NEWS | September 1, 2026 Two enormous oil tankers carrying millions of barrels of Saudi crude have been struck by unknown projectiles while attempting to leave the Persian Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz, marking another dangerous escalation around the waterway that sits at the centre of the world’s energy system. The attacks…
ABE NEWS | August 30, 2026 The United States and Iran have exchanged direct military strikes again, abruptly ending weeks of relative restraint and threatening to push the Middle East back into another dangerous phase of a conflict that has already shaken global energy markets and disrupted one of the world’s most important shipping…
ABE NEWS | August 29, 2026 At least 37 people have been killed after a Russian drone struck an ammunition storage facility near Kyiv, triggering enormous secondary explosions that tore through surrounding homes and a care facility in one of Ukraine’s deadliest attacks of 2026. The strike hit the village of Myla in the…
ABE NEWS | August 29, 2026 The United States is making an extraordinary move into Venezuela’s vast oil industry. President Donald Trump says Washington, working with Venezuela’s interim government and private companies, has secured majority control over more than 65 billion barrels of proven Venezuelan oil reserves — an amount equivalent to roughly one-fifth…
ABE NEWS | August 29, 2026 Niger has been plunged into a new political and security crisis after mutinous soldiers launched attacks across the capital, Niamey, targeting some of the most sensitive locations in the country — including the presidential palace, international airport and a major military airbase. Heavy gunfire and explosions echoed through…
ABE NEWS | August 28, 2026 Norway has lost its king. King Harald V, the country’s monarch for more than 35 years and one of Europe’s longest-serving heads of state, died Friday at the age of 89, bringing to an end a reign that spanned dramatic changes in Norwegian society and transformed him into…
ABE NEWS | August 27, 2026 One of North America’s five Great Lakes has suddenly become the latest battleground in the deteriorating relationship between the United States and Canada. U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday directing the American federal government to rename Lake Ontario as “Lake America,” turning what had been…
ABE NEWS | August 27, 2026 A catastrophic wall of ice, rock and mud has torn through the Himalayan border region between Nepal and China’s Tibet, killing hundreds of people, destroying communities and leaving more than 1,000 people missing as rescuers race against time to find survivors. The scale of the disaster continued to…
ABE NEWS | WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 2026 Oil prices are falling sharply, global markets are breathing a little easier, and one of the most economically important waterways on Earth may finally be moving toward a partial reopening. But beneath Wednesday morning’s optimism lies a much more complicated reality: the Strait of Hormuz remains severely…
ABE NEWS | SUNDAY, AUGUST 23, 2026 The Democratic Republic of Congo is facing an Ebola crisis on a scale the country has never experienced before. More than 5,000 confirmed infections. More than 2,500 deaths. Six provinces affected. Dozens of health zones reporting cases. And health authorities are warning that transmission has still not…
