Oil prices just hit a ninth month low, in large part thanks to new supplies of North American crude. Shale both threatens Russia’s economy and blunts one of its biggest geopolitical weapons.

Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto signed a number of laws this week that will overhaul the country’s struggling oil, gas, and electricity sectors. With these new reforms, Mexico looks ready to join the North American energy boom.

The nation’s third-largest insurer is predicting that it will lose as much of 30 percent of its new Obamacare customers by the end of the year. Attrition due to non-payment could put a serious dent in the ACA’s overall sign-up numbers.

A police round-up in Kosovo nets forty veteran jihadists, but there are thousands more out there.

Lebanon is gearing up for a protracted fight with ISIS and wants the U.S. to supply it with air and firepower.

Greens are finding their position in the Democratic base under fire recently, as many politicians competing in this year’s midterm elections will be touting the benefits that the shale boom is accruing for their home districts.

An NYT journalist got a rare look at Vietnam’s coast guard operations near the disputed territories—and at the fleet of ships protecting China’s oil rig, since moved.

Two Brazilian companies are making a bid for the American-held Chiquita banana corporation. If they succeed, Brazil will come that much closer to backing and enriching the system of global capitalism.

As oligarchs burrow further into the body politic across the former Warsaw Pact nations, fighting corrupt Russian influence across the EU needs to be a focus of Western strategy.

According to an Israeli security official, Saudi Arabia and the UAE have committed to financing Gaza’s reconstruction, shutting out Qatar. If true, the Sunni states may have gained ground in their standoff with Iran, but they aren’t the only ones who’d profit from this arrangement.