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Fuel prices
Now fuel prices are soaring – can make plane tickets more expensive
At the same time as millions of Chinese have started to fly again, the prices of aviation fuel are increasing again - factors that risk sending air ticket prices up, writes TT.
In just over a month, the price of jet fuel has risen by 30 percent to over 116 dollars per barrel in August.
In a year's time, demand is expected to rise to 8.1 million barrels per day, at the same level as before the pandemic, according to consulting agency Rystad Energy.
The rising prices of aviation fuel are considered to put pressure on the currently unusually high profitability in the aviation industry, writes TT.
Javier Milei and Pope Francis TT/AFP
Political situation in Argentina
The Pope's criticism upsets popular right-wing populist: "He is a communist piece of shit"
Right-wing populist Javier Milei took a step closer to the presidency of Argentina with his success in the primary election. With two months left until the presidential election, he has ended up in a dirty ideological battle of words with Christianity's holiest man, writes The Guardian.
Pope Francis has expressed concern that Milei basically lacks political experience. Milei's promise of a "cultural fight" against socialism by phasing out social benefits and sharply lowering taxes has also not gone down well.
- The extreme right always reconstructs itself, it is the triumph of selfishness over communitarianism, the Pope said in a television interview.
Milei has responded by calling the Pope a "communist piece of shit" and "a representative of all evil on earth."
Protest against the construction of oil pipelines in California in 2017 and Enbridge's pipeline. TT/AP
The Pipeline Protests
Hundreds await judgment: "The blame does not lie with me"
Hundreds of protesters in the United States risk up to five years in prison for opposing the construction of an oil pipeline that risks contaminating drinking water where indigenous people live, writes The Guardian.
One of them is 54-year-old Mylene Vialard, who was arrested in August 2021 in connection with a protest in Minnesota where she tried to block construction.
- The blame does not lie with me. It is located at Enbridge. They have violated rights and caused water pollution, she says.
Canadian energy giant Enbridge paid $8.6 million to, among other things, the police to deal with the protests.
"They paid the police to move people away from the protest line so they could get the pipeline in the ground, and it worked," says Claire Glenn, a lawyer at the Climate Defense Project.
Enbridge writes in an email to The Guardian that the protesters were arrested because their actions were illegal and endangered the safety of the site.
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