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PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — At least one person has died after days of torrential rain brought heavy flooding across Albania, police said Saturday.Conditions remain difficult in rural regions, including the southern village of Dushar, where 30 families are reportedly stranded because flooding has made access roads impassable.Police said the body of a 76-year-old woman was found after water levels receded in the flooded southeastern municipality of Devoll. Her son had reported her missing and a search conducted by soldiers on Friday failed to find her. Authorities believe she may have been swept away by strong currents.The rainfall caused the Vjosa…
ChatGPT just added a group chat feature, which is intriguing and slightly confusing. You add your friends to a new chat inside the app, and then as you and the real humans chat away, the AI chatbot can weigh in as needed.Like I said, intriguing. The idea of moving your group chat with friends to something that lives inside ChatGPT is, well, somewhat headache-inducing, if only from a privacy and security standpoint. I won’t even touch on the freakiness of moving our social lives into an AI chatbot app — I’ll let you ponder the implications of that all on…
Oil India Ltd said it has safely capped Well KSG#76 at the Kharsang oilfield.Oil India Ltd (OIL) has said it has safely capped Well KSG#76 at the Kharsang Oil Field in Arunachal Pradesh after a gas blowout that occurred on October 30, 2025 during service operations. OIL’s Crisis Management Team, along with experts from Cudd Well Control, USA, and GeoEnpro’s team, took charge of operations on November 1. The teams removed the damaged blowout preventer from the wellhead and subsequently installed a pre-positioned capping stack, which redirected gas flow to the top of the stack to ensure containment.According to the…
Oil prices dipped to one-month lows as US-led peace talks for Ukraine could increase global supply. Sanctions on Russian oil giants also loom.Oil prices eased about 1 per cent on Friday to settle at one-month lows as the US pushed for a Russia-Ukraine peace deal that could boost global oil supplies, while uncertainty over US interest rates curbed investors’ risk appetite. Brent futures fell 82 cents, or 1.3 per cent, to settle at $62.56 per barrel, while US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude slid 94 cents, or 1.6 per cent, to settle at $58.06.Both crude benchmarks were down about 3…
The US has sanctioned Maharashtra-based RN Ship Management and its directors for allegedly operating vessels carrying Iranian oil. New Delhi: The US has sanctioned Maharashtra-based RN Ship Management and its directors for allegedly operating vessels carrying Iranian oil. The action is part of Washington’s broader effort to target a network of front companies in multiple countries involved in shipping sanctioned Iranian crude.“As of early 2025, India-based RN Ship Management Pvt Ltd, led by Indian nationals Zair Husain Iqbal Husain Sayed and Zulfikar Hussain Rizvi Sayed, served as the operator of multiple vessels used by Sepehr Energy Jahan to ship Iranian…
(BOE Report)– U.S. liquefied natural gas company Freeport LNG’s export plant in Texas was on track to take in more natural gas on Friday in a sign that one of its three liquefaction trains has returned to service after shutting on Thursday, LSEG data and regulatory filings show. Freeport is one of the world’s most closely watched U.S. LNG export plants because changes to its operations have caused price swings in global gas markets in the past. When flows to Freeport drop, gas prices in the U.S. usually decline owing to reduced demand for the fuel from the export plant.…
Everyday tasks like clearing the dinner table and loading the dishwasher are a major dexterity challenge for home robots that can require a lot of training data and capital.A new startup says it spent less than two years and a fraction of the costs to figure it out.On Thursday, Sunday Robotics emerged from stealth to demonstrate Memo, a fully autonomous home robot on wheels that can complete household tasks.A video posted on X by the company’s cofounder, Tony Zhao, showed Memo move from the dining room to the kitchen to clear the table of dishes and load them in the…
In 2017, Google was criticized for a bad emoji. This week, CEO Sundar Pichai fixed it. How he did this says a lot about the progress Google has made in generative AI.The internet giant schooled the rest of the tech industry when it launched its latest model, Gemini 3, on Tuesday. It followed that up by rolling out an upgraded image-generation tool called Nano Banana Pro, which is churning out impressive, realistic pictures, diagrams, and charts.Google proved that AI scaling laws still work, just as its rivals are being questioned. The stock jumped to a record, making the company worth…
(World Oil)– Russian energy giant Lukoil PJSC dissolved the supervisory board of its international business, the latest sign of how U.S. sanctions — the first of which begin on Friday — are affecting the firm. As part of the dissolution, the Moscow-based firm “recalled” Sergei Kochkurov, chief executive officer of the parent company, as well as Evgeny Khavkin and Gennady Fedotov. The step, taken during an Oct. 28 board meeting, was posted by Lukoil International GmbH on Austria’s corporate register on Friday. The U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control announced on Oct. 22 that it was sanctioning Lukoil and…
(World Oil)– The Trump administration is eliminating Energy Department offices focused on clean energy and renewables and, instead, creating units dedicated to hydrocarbons and fusion energy. The changes are part of an agency reorganization unveiled Thursday. The plan made no mention of staffing reductions as part of the realignment, and the agency didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. Among the units eliminated are the Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations, which under former President Joe Biden awarded billions of dollars for technologies such as carbon capture and hydrogen hubs. The Trump administration previously recommended shutting down the office…