ZURICH, (Reuters) – Swiss prosecutors have opened an investigation into the $2 billion loan scandal which tipped Mozambique into a debt crisis, the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) said yesterday.
SINGAPORE, (Reuters) – Papua New Guinea’s mining regulator said yesterday it is planning to bring criminal proceedings against a Barrick Gold Corp joint venture over what it says was an attempt to illegally export $13 million in silver and gold to Australia.
(Reuters) – Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg yesterday said he would consider changes to the policy that led the company to leave up controversial posts by President Donald Trump during recent demonstrations protesting the death of an unarmed black man while in police custody, a partial concession to critics.
MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin chided the billionaire boss of Norilsk Nickel today over a huge Arctic fuel spill and ordered changes to the law to try to prevent such a disaster from happening again.
ZURICH, (Reuters) – Swiss prosecutors have opened an investigation into the $2 billion loan scandal which tipped Mozambique into a debt crisis, the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) said today.
SINGAPORE, (Reuters) – Papua New Guinea’s mining regulator said today it is planning to bring criminal proceedings against a Barrick Gold Corp joint venture over what it says was an attempt to illegally export $13 million in silver and gold to Australia.
MINNEAPOLIS, (Reuters) – Prominent civil rights activist the Rev. Al Sharpton told mourners yesterday George Floyd’s fatal encounter with police and the nationwide protests his death ignited marked a reckoning for America over race and justice, demanding, “Get your knee off our necks.”
LONDON, (Reuters) – Cheap renewable energy, climate policies and the coronavirus are pushing fossil fuel companies towards a process of “terminal decline” that could trigger a new financial crisis unless regulators act, according to a study https://carbontracker.org/reports/decline-and-fall
BRASILIA/SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Coronavirus is spreading fast through Brazil’s indigenous populations, with deaths caused by the disease increasing more than five-fold in the past month, according to data collected by a national association of first peoples.
BRASILIA/SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Coronavirus is spreading fast through Brazil’s indigenous populations, with deaths caused by the disease increasing more than five-fold in the past month, according to data collected by a national association of first peoples.
(Reuters) – The Trump administration has selected five companies, including Moderna Inc, AstraZeneca Plc and Pfizer Inc, as the most likely candidates to produce a vaccine for the novel coronavirus, the New York Times reported on Wednesday, citing senior officials.
BERLIN, (Reuters) – Madeleine McCann, the British girl who disappeared in Portugal in 2007 aged just three, is assumed to be dead and an imprisoned German child abuser is the murder suspect, a German prosecutor said on Thursday
McCann vanished from her bedroom on May 3 during a family vacation in the Algarve while her parents were dining with friends nearby in the resort of Praia da Luz.
MINNEAPOLIS, (Reuters) – Prosecutors yesterday leveled new criminal charges against four Minneapolis policemen implicated in the death of a black man pinned by his neck to the street during an arrest that sparked more than a week of nationwide protest and civil strife.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexico overtook the United States in daily reported deaths from the novel coronavirus for the first time yesterday, with the health ministry registering a record 1,092 fatalities it attributed to improved documenting of the pandemic.
STOCKHOLM, (Reuters) – Sweden should have done more to combat the coronavirus, the epidemiologist behind a national strategy that avoided the strict lockdowns seen in many other countries said today.
LONDON, (Reuters) – The United Kingdom’s COVID-19 death toll surpassed 50,000 today, according to a Reuters tally of official data sources that highlighted the country’s place as one of the worst hit in the world.
BRUSSELS, (Reuters) – The European Commission classified the new coronavirus as a mid-level threat to workers, drawing criticism from socialist lawmakers because the move will allow less stringent workplace safety measures than if the virus was deemed a high risk.
BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombia’s Supreme Court said yesterday it would investigate former President Alvaro Uribe’s possible connections to a scandal involving alleged military spying on journalists, politicians and judges.