Natural-gas prices rally, buoyed by winter storm forecast Oil futures declined Monday, with U.S. prices posting their largest daily drop since November after Saudi Arabia cut its crude selling prices to all regions, raising concerns about the outlook for demand. … Read More
Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, on Thursday said Africa and the dangers posed by artificial intelligence (AI) would be the major issues of discussion at the G7 meeting. Italy took over the rotating presidency of the Group of Seven (G7), … Read More
South Korea’s opposition leader Lee Jae-myung has been stabbed in the neck during a visit to the city of Busan. Mr Lee, who narrowly lost the 2022 presidential election, sustained a 1cm laceration on the left side of his neck, … Read More
Denmark’s Queen Margrethe II has announced her surprise abdication in a new year TV address. She will formally step down on 14 January, which will be 52 years to the day since she became queen. “I will leave the throne … Read More
Russia and Iran have entered into an agreement to avoid using the dollar in bilateral trade, relying instead on their own currencies, a new report says. The central bank governors of the two nations sealed the pact at a recent … Read More
A series of attacks on villages in central Nigeria over the last few days have killed nearly 200 people, local authorities said on Wednesday, in the latest case this year of such mass killings blamed on the farmer-herder crisis in … Read More
Rohingya have experienced increasing hostility in Indonesia as locals grow frustrated at the number of boats arriving from Myanmar with the ethnic minority More than 1,500 Rohingya refugees have arrived on the shores of Aceh province since mid-November, in what … Read More
Angola announced it’s leaving OPEC after 16 years of membership amid a dispute over oil production quotas, while the cartel tries to buoy global prices. Luanda had rejected a reduced output limit imposed by the leaders of the cartel to reflect the … Read More
VATICAN CITY, Dec 18 (Reuters) – The Vatican said on Monday in a landmark ruling approved by Pope Francis that Roman Catholic priests can administer blessings to same-sex couples as long as they are not part of regular Church rituals … Read More
Argentina’s Economy Minister Luis Toto Caputo Tuesday admitted people would be worse off for a couple of months while announcing in a recorded message the new measures adopted by the administration of President Javier Milei to bounce back from the … Read More