LONDON, (Reuters) – An English court threw out a $1.1 billion case Nigeria had brought against Royal Dutch Shell and Eni related to a dispute over the OPL 245 oilfield, a court document showed yesterday, while a related trial in Italy continues.
BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Argentina missed payments on around $500 million in already delayed bond coupons yesterday, creditors and a ratings agency said, marking the country’s ninth sovereign default amid ongoing restructuring talks with creditors.
(Reuters) – The malaria drug hydroxychloroquine, which U.S. President Donald Trump says he has been taking and has urged others to use, was tied to increased risk of death in hospitalized COVID-19 patients, according to a large study published in the medical journal Lancet.
SANTIAGO/LIMA, (Reuters) – Indigenous leaders are calling for help to stop oil companies drilling in the headwaters of the Amazon river in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, warning that encroaching on their homelands would destroy a bulwark against climate change.
KARACHI, Pakistan, (Reuters) – A Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) plane with 99 passengers and crew crashed into a residential area of the city of Karachi today, with many feared dead, officials said.
GENEVA, (Reuters) – The United States called on the World Health Organization (WHO) today to begin work immediately on investigating the source of the novel coronavirus, as well as its handling of the response to the pandemic.
BENGALURU/LONDON, (Reuters) – The United States has secured almost a third of the first 1 billion doses planned for AstraZeneca’s experimental COVID-19 vaccine by pledging up to $1.2 billion, as world powers scramble for medicines to get their economies back to work.
HONG KONG, (Reuters) – Hong Kong activists called for a protest march today against Beijing’s plans to impose national security legislation in the semiautonomous city, raising concerns over its freedoms and its status as a global financial hub.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The United States said yesterday it would withdraw from the 35-nation Open Skies treaty allowing unarmed surveillance flights over member countries, the Trump administration’s latest move to pull the country out of a major global treaty.
ATLANTA, (Reuters) – The man who videotaped the slaying of an unarmed black man gunned down as he jogged through a suburban neighborhood in Georgia was arrested yesterday as the third white suspect accused of murder in the racially charged case.
TAIZ, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – When Jamil al-Saboot and his family were told by a Yemeni aid agency to self-isolate to stop the spread of coronavirus, he knew he would not heed the advice.
BENGALURU/LONDON, (Reuters) – The United States has secured almost a third of the first one billion doses planned for AstraZeneca’s experimental COVID-19 vaccine by pledging up to $1.2 billion, as world powers scramble for medicines to get their economies back to work.
TAIZ, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – When Jamil al-Saboot and his family were told by a Yemeni aid agency to self-isolate to stop the spread of coronavirus, he knew he would not heed the advice.
MANAUS, Brazil, (Reuters) – The mayor of the largest city in the Amazon rainforest said the coronavirus pandemic is killing indigenous people and warned of a “genocide” if Brazil’s right-wing government fails to protect vulnerable tribes.
BEIJING, (Reuters) – The city of Wuhan, the original epicentre of China’s coronavirus outbreak, conducted 856,128 tests for the disease on Tuesday, the local health authority said today, compared with 467,847 a day earlier.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – The following is a brief roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for COVID-19, the illness caused by the virus.
KOLKATA/DHAKA, (Reuters) – A powerful cyclone pounded eastern India and Bangladesh yesterday, killing at least 14 people and destroying thousands of homes, officials said, leaving authorities struggling to mount relief efforts amid a surging coronavirus outbreak.
MIDLAND, Mich., (Reuters) – Rising floodwaters unleashed by two dam failures submerged parts of the central Michigan town of Midland yesterday, displacing thousands of residents and spreading into a Dow Chemical Co plant in the riverfront city.
GENEVA, (Reuters) – The World Health Organization expressed concern today about the rising number of new coronavirus cases in poor countries, even as many rich nations have begun emerging from lockdown.