Verisk Buys McKenzie Intelligence Services, a UK-Based Catastrophe Analysis Firm July 29, 2026 Verisk, the data analytics and technology firm, announced it has acquired UK-based McKenzie Intelligence Services (MIS), a geospatial intelligence and...
Viewpoint: French Climate Lawsuit Offers Window Into Next Round of Global Legal Fight July 29, 2026 By Aminta Ossom A recent decision by a French court requires a major European oil and gas company to report not only its...
Yemen’s Houthis Consider Imposing Fees on Ships Sailing Through Red Sea: Sources July 29, 2026 By Jonathan Saul, Parisa Hafezi and Timour Azhari Yemen’s Houthi group is considering imposing fees on commercial ships sailing through the southern Red Sea, a week after declaring...
EU Plans to Sanction Record 1,600 Firms for Helping Russia July 29, 2026 By Jorge Valero The European Union is planning to sanction more than 1,600 companies it says are helping Russia’s war against Ukraine, the...
Heat Pushes Rhine Toward 36-Year Low in Risk to Energy Supplies July 29, 2026 By Eamon Akil Farhat The Rhine River’s water levels risk dropping to an unprecedented low as heat waves grip Europe, creating a bottleneck for...
France and Spain Plan Economic Aid as Major Fires Still Burn July 28, 2026 By Alan Katz France and Spain are studying ways to pump money into regions hit by massive wildfires over the past week even...
Fitch Warns AI Market Correction Emerging as Major Global Credit Risk July 28, 2026 By Marc Jones The AI boom and the risk of a correction are emerging as major global credit risks, ratings agency Fitch has...
Powerful Quake Hits Southern Japan, Workers Missing After Shopping Mall Blast July 28, 2026 By Anton Bridge, Satoshi Sugiyama and Kantaro Komiya A 7.1-magnitude earthquake hit Japan’s southern Kumamoto prefecture on Tuesday, knocking out power to thousands of homes, rupturing roads and...
Australia’s Origin Energy Says About 900,000 Customers’ Data Accessed in Breach July 28, 2026 By Keira Wright About 900,000 current and former Origin Energy Ltd. customers had their data accessed in a security breach, the latest in...
Google Rivals Line Up Seeking Damages After Record $1 Billion EU Fine July 28, 2026 By Supantha Mukherjee and Foo Yun Chee A decades-long crackdown on Google’s business practices in Europe is entering a costly new phase, as the loss of the...