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Mexico’s Electricity Bill Rolls Back Energy Reforms and Threatens Relations with Trading Partners By Inu Manak and Alfredo Carrillo Obregon SHARE In a bid to leave his mark on Mexico’s energy sector, Mexican President Andres Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) is rolling back reforms by his predecessor Enrique Peña Nieto that were designed to increase competition in the energy market. For years, Mexico’s energy market was in decline due to a lack of foreign investment a...

IN 1902, Britain, Germany and Italy imposed a naval blockade on Venezuela after president Cipriano Castro refused to honour debts and pay damages incurred by European companies and citizens during the civil wars that followed the Republic’s independence from Spain. Violent intervention is still employed by Western governments nowadays when they consider it necessary — but more often as not their commercial interests are protected by international trade treaties and investment agreements. Of...

Okay, I know that it's become something of a cliche for blogs and news sites to repost John Oliver clips, but dammit, if the guy...

Elisa Fernandez Saenz, Country Representative of UN Women in Vietnam (Photo: UN Women Vietnam) Hanoi (VNA) - A national forum on “Engaging Men and Boys in the Promotion of Gender Equality and the Elimination of Gender-based Violence” was held for the first time in Hanoi with 200 delegates participating both online and in person. The forum was jointly held by UN Women in Vietnam, the Institute for Social Development Studies (ISDS), and the Network for the Prevention of and Response to Gende...

Both school districts were closed last week due to winter weather and school breaks.

Houston, Cy-Fair, Katy ISDs extend school closures through Friday FacebookTwitterEmail Cy-Fair ISD Superintendent Mark Henry announced his district, the region’s second-largest, would remain closed through Friday. Some Cy-Fair campuses suffered water damage and lost all food in their refrigerators.Cy-Fair ISD All of the Houston area’s largest districts will remain closed Thursday and the vast majority will stay shuttered Friday due to continuing power outages and other complications from wi...

Imminent threat: San Antonio braces for rain, sleet, snow - and extreme cold Taylor Pettaway, Liz Hardaway, Madalyn Mendoza, Staff writers Feb. 12, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Michelle Manuel, 53, waits in the intake area of Haven for Hope on Friday, Feb. 12, 2021. The center is opening up an area as an emergency shelter area during the expected extreme cold weather in the area. Manuel has been on the streets for seven months, she said.Jerry Lara /Staff photographer The San Antonio region was b...

Imminent threat: San Antonio braces for rain, sleet, snow - and extreme cold Taylor Pettaway, Liz Hardaway, Madalyn Mendoza, Staff writers Feb. 12, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Michelle Manuel, 53, waits in the intake area of Haven for Hope on Friday, Feb. 12, 2021. The center is opening up an area as an emergency shelter area during the expected extreme cold weather in the area. Manuel has been on the streets for seven months, she said.Jerry Lara /Staff photographer The San Antonio region was b...

President do next. so even been some white house aisds who will call reporters to ask what are we hearing because our information is potentially good as theirs. >> what about john kelly saying it apparently somewhat off the record but not successfully so, commented to that the president is causing this by asking around about who to get rid of it? >> well -- >> inside and outside of. >> no secret the president late at night calls friends and floats things, thats how he makes decisions, he likes t...

>> 2016. >> yeah. >> and those weapons were purchased in four different states. so, you know, gun owners would recognize somebody coming in to purchase 33 weapons. so he spread out the purchases over four different states and different gun stores so that the owner would not recognize him coming in and making bulk purchases of weapons and bulk purchasing of ammunition. >> so weve got nevada, utah, vermont, texas -- what are the states that we have? >> california, texas, utah and nevada. >> any si...