World Health Organization officials on Friday warned governments and citizens not to drop their guard over the COVID pandemic now a vaccination was close, saying healthcare systems could still buckle Continue Reading
Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister said on Friday a resolution to a bitter dispute with Qatar seemed “within reach” after Kuwait announced progress towards ending a row that Washington says hampers Continue Reading
As India’s virus numbers swell and the economy stumbles, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has another crisis to deal with: Tens of thousands of angry farmers vowing to camp outside the Continue Reading
Before India’s farmers rose up in anger, presenting an increasingly difficult challenge to a government already grappling with the coronavirus outbreak and a devastating economic slump, Devinder Singh set his Continue Reading
Resurgent coronavirus infections are putting a chill on U.S. job creation, manufacturing in China is gaining pace and the final stages of Brexit negotiations are complicating the U.K.’s recovery prospects. Here Continue Reading
Evidence was abundant in the November jobs report that the U.S. economy’s tentative recovery is sputtering as coronavirus cases accelerate and federal aid runs out. Hiring slowed sharply. Hundreds of Continue Reading
Employment data showed the pace of hiring slowing substantially in November. WSJ’s Eric Morath breaks down why the labor-market recovery has lost its momentum. Photo: Jeff Chiu/Associated Press U.S. job Continue Reading
The United States is winding up a particularly devastating week, one of the very worst since the coronavirus pandemic began nine months ago. On Friday, a national single-day record was set, Continue Reading
The annual U.S. defense policy bill unveiled by lawmakers late on Thursday contains sanctions that backers say will halt one of Russia’s biggest projects in Europe: the Nord Stream 2 Continue Reading
Talks to reach a post-Brexit trade deal have been paused, because UK and EU negotiators say “significant divergences” remain. Michel Barnier and David Frost said conditions for a deal between Continue Reading
Moscow began distributing the Sputnik V COVID-19 shot via 70 clinics on Saturday, marking Russia’s first mass vaccination against the disease, the city’s coronavirus task force said. The task force Continue Reading
Over 1.5 million people have lost their lives due to COVID-19 with one death reported every nine seconds on a weekly average, as vaccinations are set to begin in December Continue Reading
Covid-19 vaccines that need to be deep-frozen during transport can be delivered to developing nations in sub-Saharan Africa, South America and South Asia, according to logistics group DHL. John Pearson, Continue Reading
The Public Investment Fund, the sovereign wealth fund of the world’s largest oil exporter Saudi Arabia, has contacted international banks for a loan of up to US$7 billion to use Continue Reading
China has published a draft law, seeking public comments, aimed at ensuring national food security and reforming the management of high grain reserves in the country, according to a report Continue Reading
China is set to allow a shipment of Australian coal into the country, according to a person familiar with the matter, despite a ban on such imports remaining in place Continue Reading
The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell as the nation celebrated Thanksgiving last week to a still-high 712,000, the latest sign that the U.S. economy and job market Continue Reading
Sanford Health, the largest health-care system in the Dakotas, says it could see more than 200 additional hospital beds filled in the weeks following Thanksgiving if people gather in large Continue Reading
Dr. Anthony S. Fauci insisted that the F.D.A.’s vaccine approval process was the “gold standard” after British regulators moved first to approve one.Credit…Stefani Reynolds for The New York Times A Continue Reading
Emmanuel Macron, French president, wants to preserve a substantial chunk of existing fishing rights for the French fleet in British waters after Brexit and is also insisting on a strict Continue Reading
France will veto any trade deal between the U.K. and the European Union that doesn’t respect its interests, French European Affairs Minister Clement Beaune said on Friday. “If there is a Continue Reading
Saudi Arabia and Qatar are nearing a preliminary deal to end a rift that’s dragged on for more than three years, prodded by a Trump administration seeking foreign policy wins Continue Reading
India has announced its intention to resume oil imports from Iran and Venezuela, as part of its objective to diversify its oil suppliers. Imports from Iran and Venezuela were halted Continue Reading
It may be a lame duck session, but Donald Trump’s presidency is far from over, and neither is his trade war with China. Just a few days ago the sitting Continue Reading
The head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned on Wednesday the COVID-19 pandemic, still raging with unprecedented fury nationwide, will pose the country’s grimmest health crisis Continue Reading
As the U.S. faces a third surge of Covid-19 cases and the prospect of more business shutdowns, there is a growing call for Congress to pass a new stimulus package. Continue Reading
The number of U.S. deaths reported in a single day hit a record, surpassing 3,000. Newly reported infections also surged, hitting 200,000 for the second time. A scientist in Japan Continue Reading
President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday ordered a “large-scale” COVID-19 immunization campaign to start by late next week, with doctors and teachers set to be first in line to get a Continue Reading
U.K. output shrank for the first time since June amid restrictions to slow the second wave of Covid-19. IHS Markit’s composite Purchasing Managers Index dropped to 49 in November, slipping below Continue Reading
Russian gas supplies to Europe remained at 2020 highs in November, with average deliveries of 439 million cu m/d, an analysis of data from S&P Global Platts Analytics showed Dec. Continue Reading
New coal power plants in China will face severe restrictions after 2026 as the country pivots to a carbon-neutral future, according to a researcher with the nation’s main grid operator. Continue Reading
(Reuters) – Joe Biden will not immediately cancel the Phase 1 trade agreement that President Donald Trump struck with China nor take steps to remove tariffs on Chinese exports, the Continue Reading
European refiners are struggling with their weakest market in decades. But some industry watchers have become cautiously optimistic that improved demand, plant closures, and longer OPEC+ supply cuts could put Continue Reading
The COVID-19 pandemic has fueled a 40% increase in the number of people needing humanitarian assistance around the globe, the United Nations said on Tuesday, as it appealed for roughly Continue Reading
The closely watched weekly reports on U.S. claims for unemployment benefits will soon come with a disclaimer that the figures aren’t accurately capturing how many people are actually claiming benefits Continue Reading
The developer of the almost-complete Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline from Russia to Germany is set to resume pipe-laying work in German waters next month, according to a notice to Continue Reading
Germany’s labor market shrugged off a worsening pandemic and new restrictions, with unemployment unexpectedly declining for a fifth month in November.A drop of 39,000 left the total number of jobless Continue Reading
The EU will call on the US to seize a “once-in-a-generation” opportunity to forge a new global alliance, in a detailed pitch to bury the tensions of the Trump era Continue Reading
The United Kingdom has had troops deployed in Saudi Arabia to protect its oilfields from attacks since February this year, The News reported this week, a local newspaper in Portsmouth Continue Reading
IThe coronavirus pandemic has strangled one of the most powerful engines of economic growth in the world: spending by India’s 1.3 billion consumers. The country’s gross domestic product shrank 7.5% Continue Reading
U.S. health authorities will hold an emergency meeting next week to recommend that a coronavirus vaccine awaiting approval be given first to healthcare professionals and people in long-term care facilities. Continue Reading
The flights are one link in a vast global supply chain being assembled to tackle… United Airlines Holdings Inc. on Friday began operating charter flights to position doses of Pfizer Continue Reading
The European Union and Britain said on Friday there were still substantial differences over a Brexit trade deal as the EU chief negotiator prepared to travel to London in a Continue Reading
So many new doctors left Poland for better-paying jobs in Europe’s west that when Łukasz Rotnicki decided to stay behind he often found himself working 36-hour shifts, sleeping on the Continue Reading
DNV GL, a Norwegian risk management and quality assurance firm, told Reuters on Thursday it had suspended work on the gas pipeline Nord Stream 2 to avoid sanctions under the Continue Reading
Germany’s partial lockdown measures could be extended until early Spring if infections are not brought under control, Economy Minister Peter Altmaier said in a newspaper interview published on Saturday. Altmaier Continue Reading
The world’s economic recovery is wildly uneven — and that again was on display this week. U.S. data on the eve of the Thanksgiving holiday offered signs of both strain and strength, while Continue Reading
Russia can probably get around the latest U.S. sanctions against Nord Stream 2 and complete the pipeline, industry executives and analysts of the controversial project say. Gazprom PJSC, which owns the Continue Reading
Europe’s former chief drugs regulator has called for calm in the growing controversy over claims made by AstraZeneca and Oxford University for their Covid-19 vaccine in late-stage trials. The Anglo-Swedish drugs Continue Reading
Saudi Arabia has used its year in the G20 presidency to promote its circular carbon economy scheme, which it says will lower carbon emissions if adopted worldwide, while maintaining abundant Continue Reading
