Oil rises to $107 per barrel as Trump comments roil energy markets
The Brent oil price reached nearly $107 a barrel Monday after Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi movement launched strikes on Saudi Arabia, heightening worries about tight global supplies heading into the northern hemisphere winter.
Coronavirus crisis ‘far from over’, more support needed — IMF
The International Monetary Fund on Wednesday warned that the Coronavirus crisis was “far from over” and underscored the need for multilateral cooperation to ensure adequate supplies once a vaccine is developed. In an essay published in Foreign Policy magazine, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva and chief economist Gita Gopinath said the ongoing economic recovery from […]
Norway MP nominates Trump for 2021 Nobel Peace Prize
An MP for a Norwegian populist party said Wednesday he had nominated Donald Trump for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize, citing his role in brokering an agreement normalising relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates. “The reason is that he crafted a unique and historic agreement between Israel and the UAE. An agreement that, […]
‘We want army stay in power’: Hundreds rally in support of Mali junta
Hundreds of people demonstrated in Mali’s capital on Tuesday in support of the junta that has seized power in a coup, as debate rages over the timeframe for the country’s return to civilian rule. Months of protests over the simmering jihadist insurgency, bloody ethnic violence and endemic corruption in the country boiled over when rebel […]
Ethiopia’s Tigray region defies PM Abiy with ‘illegal’ election
Ageing war veterans and university students joined long pre-dawn lines in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region to vote Wednesday in parliamentary elections that Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s government has deemed illegal. Polls opened at 6am (0300 GMT) across the mountainous northern Tigray region despite a federal decision to postpone all elections because of the coronavirus pandemic. […]
India to reopen schools even as country sees 89,700 new virus cases
The Indian government, on Wednesday, said it would reopen schools for students in upper grades after more than five months of closure amid a daily rise of 89,706 coronavirus infections. According to India’s Health Ministry in its daily update, this figure takes its second-highest tally globally to more than 4.3 million cases. At least 1,115 […]
