Oil price dip towards $74, Omicron concerns dominate
Oil prices dipped towards $74 a barrel on Tuesday after the International Energy Agency (IEA) said that the new Omicron coronavirus variant was set to dent the global demand recovery while ...
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Belarus jails opposition leader’s husband for 18 years
Syarhei Tsikhanouski, the husband of Belarus’s opposition leader, was sentenced on Tuesday to 18 years in jail for organising mass unrest and inciting social hatred, the official Belta news agency ...
HSBC says clients must have plan to exit coal by end-2023
HSBC (HSBA.L), Europe’s leading banker to corporate Asia, laid out its long-awaited policy on financing thermal coal on Tuesday, and said it expected all its clients to have ...
Malta parliament set to approve cannabis for personal use
Malta is set to become the first European country to allow limited cultivation and possession of cannabis for personal use, with parliamentarians due to approve the new law later on ...
Pfizer vaccine protecting against hospitalisation during Omicron wave
Two doses of Pfizer-BioNTech’s Covid -19 vaccine appear to have given 70% protection against hospitalisation in South Africa in recent weeks, a major real-world study on the potential impact of ...
With lab help, whiskey distillers skip oak barrel-aging. But how does it taste?
In a small lab in California’s Silicon Valley, Martin Janousek and Stu Aaron are making whiskey.
There are no oak barrels stacked floor to ceiling. In fact, there’s ...
Hamilton told team on radio race was ‘manipulated’
Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton said on his team radio, “This has been manipulated, man” after the Briton was passed by Max Verstappen on the final lap of Sunday’s controversial season-ending ...
Powerful quake strikes Indonesia; residents flee into streets
A powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck eastern Indonesia on Tuesday triggering a tsunami warning and sending residents fleeing from their homes but causing only minor damage and injuring one person, authorities ...
Facebook owner is behind $60 mln deal for Meta name rights
Meta Platforms Inc (FB.O), the owner of social media network Facebook, is behind a $60 million deal to acquire the trademark assets of US regional bank Meta Financial Group (CASH....
Bin bags of cash: NatWest fined for dirty money breaches
NatWest has been fined 265 million pounds ($350.9 million) for failing to prevent the laundering of nearly 400 million pounds, in the first criminal money laundering case against a British bank.
A gang ...
U.S. Supreme Court rejects religious challenge to New York vaccine mandate
By Andrew Chung
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected challenges brought by Christian doctors and nurses and a group that promotes vaccine skepticism to New York’s refusal ...
Turkey says Exxon Mobil, Qatar Petroleum to stay out of its jurisdiction in East Med
The United States and Qatar have assured Turkey that Exxon Mobil and Qatar Petroleum will stay out of Turkey’s continental shelf in the eastern Mediterranean, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu ...
U.S. diplomat’s wife to face UK court hearing over fatal car crash
By Andrew MacAskill
The wife of a U.S. diplomat is due to face a London court hearing next month over a fatal car crash in England in a case ...
New friends – UAE de facto ruler, Israel’s Bennett in “historic” meeting
Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan hosted Israel’s Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Monday in the first-ever public meeting between the United Arab Emirates’ de facto ...
Elon Musk named Time’s 2021 ‘Person of the Year’
Tesla Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk was named Time magazine’s “Person of the Year” for 2021, a year that saw his electric car company become the most valuable carmaker in ...
Israel planning trial import of foreign tech workers amid shortage
Israel intends to import foreign workers for its high-tech sector on a trial basis to offset a pandemic-era labour shortage, Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Monday.
In remarks to ...
French court slashes UBS tax evasion fine to 1.8 bln euros
A Paris appeals court on Monday slashed the penalty UBS (UBSG.S) must pay for allegedly helping wealthy clients in France evade taxes to 1.8 billion euros ($2.03 billion), but upheld that ...
PSG get Real, Man Utd v Atletico in revised Champions League draw
Paris St Germain will face Real Madrid in a titanic clash in the last 16 of the Champions League while Manchester United take on Atletico Madrid after UEFA declared the original ...
Barca to face Napoli in Europa League knockout round playoffs
Barcelona will play Napoli in the knockout round playoff of the second-tier Europa League, marking a face-off between the former clubs of late soccer great Diego Maradona.
Barcelona, who crashed ...
Russia says it may be forced to deploy intermediate nuclear missiles in Europe
Russia said on Monday it may be forced to deploy intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Europe in response to what it sees as NATO’s plans to do the same.
Deputy ...
UEFA to conduct Champions League draw again after mistake
The draw for the Champions League last 16 ties will be conducted again after a technical error in the software which advises officials which teams can and cannot be paired together, ...
First person dies from Omicron variant in United Kingdom (Updated)
By Guy Faulconbridge and Michael Holden
At least one person has died in the United Kingdom after contracting the Omicron coronavirus variant, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Monday, the ...
Turkish lira plummets to new low, Erdogan to meet central bank chief
President Tayyip Erdogan is expected to hold talks with the central bank governor, finance minister and heads of state banks on Monday, sources told Reuters, as the lira plummeted to ...
EU hesitates over possible Olympic boycott in China
France and the Netherlands are seeking to find a common European Union approach over a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Olympic Games in China but any decision is unlikely to be ...