By Jessica Resnick-Ault NEW YORK (Reuters) -Oil prices rose to their highest levels since February on Wednesday after Saudi Arabia announced a big voluntary production cut and on a steep fall in U.S. crude inventories...
Trump administration mulls adding Alibaba, Tencent to blacklist of Chinese military cos-sources
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Trump administration is considering adding China’s retail giant Alibaba and Tencent to a blacklist of Chinese companies that are allegedly owned or controlled by the Chinese...
England and Wales recorded most deaths last year for a century – ONS
LONDON (Reuters) -England and Wales recorded the most deaths in 2020 of any year in more than a century, with the COVID-19 pandemic leading to a rise in the number of excess deaths, a senior statistician said on...
Ex-New England mob boss appeals conviction for 1993 murder
By Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) – A federal appeals court on Wednesday weighed whether to overturn the conviction of an octogenarian former New England mob boss sentenced to life for the 1993 murder of a...
France unlikely to avoid UK variant of coronavirus -chief advisor
PARIS (Reuters) -France is unlikely to avoid the new and more contagious “UK variant” of the coronavirus, and may have to consider more restrictions on people’s movements next week, the...
Ireland tightens lockdown as COVID-19 ‘tsunami’ threatens hospitals
By Conor Humphries and Graham Fahy DUBLIN (Reuters) – Ireland announced its strictest lockdown measures since early last year on Wednesday as a “tsunami” of infections caused by a new COVID-19 variant...
Peru inks deals with Sinopharm, AstraZeneca for coronavirus vaccines -president
LIMA (Reuters) -Peruvian president Francisco Sagasti said on Wednesday his interim administration had negotiated vaccine supply deals with Sinopharm Group and AstraZeneca Plc, boosting prospects for a vaccination...