U.S. oil CEOs stress need for fossil fuels despite push for cleaner energy
HOUSTON, (Reuters) – A global energy conference devoted to future technologies and low-carbon strategies kicked off in Houston today with top executives from the largest U.S.
HOUSTON, (Reuters) – A global energy conference devoted to future technologies and low-carbon strategies kicked off in Houston today with top executives from the largest U.S.
(Reuters) – A court in military-ruled Myanmar jailed deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi for four years today on charges of incitement and breaching coronavirus restrictions, drawing international outrage of what some critics described as a “sham trial”.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Julio Borges, the politician who serves as foreign minister for Venezuela’s U.S.-backed
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Bob Dole, who overcame grievous World War Two combat wounds to become a pre-eminent figure in U.S.
BANJUL, (Reuters) – Gambian President Adama Barrow has comfortably won re-election, the electoral commission said yesterday, though he may face a legal challenge from opposition candidates who rejected the results because of unspecified irregularities.
KYANKWANZI, Uganda, (Reuters) – Chinese private investment in Uganda is growing while Westerners are losing appetite to put money to work in the country, President Yoweri Museveni told Reuters, pledging to step up efforts to tackle corruption that have made slow progress.
PORT EDWARD, South Africa, (Reuters) – South Africans took to their beaches yesterday to protest against plans by Royal Dutch Shell to do seimsic oil exploration they say will threaten marine wildlife such as whales, dolphins, seals and penguins on a pristine coastal stretch.
SUMBERWULUH, Indonesia (Reuters) – The eruption of Indonesia’s Semeru volcano has killed at least 14 people and injured dozens, the disaster mitigation agency (BNPB) said today, as search teams looked for victims in a landscape covered in deep layers of ash.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Iran abandoned any compromises it had made in talks to revive its 2015 nuclear deal with major powers, pocketed those made by others, and demanded more during indirect U.S.-Iran
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – CNN said yesterday it had fired news anchor Chris Cuomo after “additional information” came to light during an investigation into his efforts to help his brother, former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, respond to allegations of sexual misconduct.
DENVER, (Reuters) – A Colorado judge on Friday ruled that a man accused of killing 10 people in a supermarket shooting in March is incompetent to stand trial.
(Reuters) – A Michigan judge set bail at $500,000 each for the parents of a teenager accused of murdering four fellow high school students, after authorities arrested the couple yesterday following a high-profile manhunt.
WASHINGTON/MOSCOW, (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold a video call on Tuesday to deal with military tensions over Ukraine among other topics.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – The mayor of Rio de Janeiro canceled New Year’s Eve celebrations after Brazil confirmed the first known cases of the Omicron coronavirus variant in Latin America’s biggest country.
(University of Minnesota Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy) – Survivors of severe COVID-19—especially those younger than 65 years—may be at more than twice the risk of dying within the next year than those who had mild or moderate illness or were never infected, according to a study published last Wednesday in Frontiers in Medicine.
(SciDev.Net) – Countries must step up their monitoring of resistance to antiretroviral drugs for HIV to ensure that lifesaving therapies remain effective, a World Health Organization (WHO) report urges.
(University of California, Davis) – Dog breeds are often recognized for distinctive traits — the short legs of a dachshund, wrinkled face of a pug, spotted coat of a Dalmatian.
MIAMI, (Reuters) – Financing from multilateral lenders such as the IMF will be critical to mitigate the effects of climate change that pose grave threats to the future of small island nations, Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley said yesterday.
(Reuters) – Authorities searched for the parents of a Michigan teenager accused of murdering four fellow high school students, after they were charged with involuntary manslaughter yesterday for buying their son the weapon as a Christmas gift and ignoring warning signs as late as the day of the shooting.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – The Omicron variant of the virus that causes COVID-19 likely acquired at least one of its mutations by picking up a snippet of genetic material from another virus – possibly one that causes the common cold – present in the same infected cells, according to researchers.
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