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Saudi Arabia’s Minister of Energy Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman Al-Saud speaks via video link during a virtual emergency meeting of OPEC and non-OPEC countries, following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia April 9, 2020. Saudi Press Agency | Reuters Forgive senior Saudi officials for their head-scratching in response to
Conservative Owen Paterson has quit as an MP following the controversy over his suspension from the Commons for lobbying. The North Shropshire MP said he was leaving the “cruel world of politics”. The former Northern Ireland Secretary was found to have breached Commons rules by lobbying for two companies – Randox and Lynn’s Country Foods
CNN’s Daniel Dale fact-checks recent false claims made by President Trump about Osama Bin Laden and crying farmers. #CNN #News
Travis Scott has promised to help the families of the eight people who were killed during his concert at the Astroworld festival in Texas, saying he could never “imagine anything like this happening”. The rapper posted an emotional video on social media as police in Houston said they had opened a criminal investigation into the
1:01 AM ET NEW YORK — Kamaru Usman got the job done at UFC 268, stopping the late surge of Colby Covington to retain the UFC welterweight championship. Usman scored two knockdowns in the second round which nearly put Covington away, but there would be no finish in the rematch and the scorecards were read.
9:30 PM ET Associated Press DEL MAR, Calif. — Knicks Go burst into the lead out of the starting gate and kicked away to a 2¾-length victory in the $6 million Breeders’ Cup Classic on Saturday at Del Mar. No one seriously pressed the colt, who earned his fourth straight victory and in the process
Many of us who enjoy nature, wildlife or just being outdoors have one thing in common – we all love the sensorial experiences that the outdoors provides. Like the sight of the flowing river, the touch of cool breeze in the mountains, the smell of the forest, calls/ songs of the birds to name a
Labour has alleged there is a “cash for access culture” in the Tory party as it seeks to maintain pressure on Boris Johnson’s government over sleaze allegations following the Owen Paterson debacle. The party made the claims after The Sunday Times reported that a series of donors who give £3m to the Tories and serve
Another crew member who was working on the film Rust is in hospital, where doctors are fighting to save his arm following a spider bite. Jason Miller, a lamp operator and pipe rigger, was working to wind down production of the film after cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was accidentally shot dead by Alec Baldwin on 21
Iraq’s prime minister has survived an attempted assassination by a drone armed with explosives. The government said the drone targeted Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al Kadhimi’s home in Baghdad’s Green Zone early on Sunday. Baghdad residents heard the sound of an explosion followed by gunfire from the heavily-fortified area, which houses government offices and foreign
In this article TSLA SpaceX founder and Tesla CEO Elon Musk holds a helmet as he visits the construction site of Tesla’s gigafactory in Gruenheide, near Berlin, Germany, May 17, 2021. Michele Tantussi | Reuters Elon Musk on Saturday asked millions of his Twitter followers to determine the future of a chunk of his Tesla
After an entire day (and indeed months) of deliberation and negotiations, Congress approved a long debated infrastructure bill totaling $1.2 trillion. The 228-206 vote held by the US House of Representatives early Saturday morning will put a core piece of President Biden’s domestic legislature into action. While 6 Democrats didn’t vote for the bill, 12
LONDON — U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm has called on oil-producing nations to immediately increase crude supplies to mitigate the surging cost of living. On Thursday, oil cartel OPEC and its allies agreed to continue with their current output plan, deciding against loosening the taps despite U.S. pressure to help cool the market. Oil prices have
A 14-year-old child was among eight people killed following a crowd surge at a music festival in Texas during a performance by rapper Travis Scott. A 16-year-old also died in the disaster at Astroworld Festival in Houston on Friday, the city’s mayor Sylvester Turner told a news conference. The other victims included two 21-year-olds, two
A 36-year-old man has been charged with the abduction of four-year-old Cleo Smith in Western Australia. In a case that has gripped the country, the girl disappeared from a campsite more than two weeks ago but was found alive this week. She was found by police in a house in the town of Carnarvon, not
Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA) used a trunk full of rice to question oil executives about the amount of unused oil permits on federal land. Executives from ExxonMobil, BP America, Chevron, Shell Oil, the American Petroleum Institute and the US Chamber of Commerce, testified in front of Congress for the first time about their role in
Rapper Travis Scott says he is “absolutely devastated” after at least eight people were killed in a crowd surge as he performed at a music festival in Texas. In a message posted on social media, the musician said the police had his “total support as they continue to look into the tragic loss of life”.
The health secretary has urged elderly and vulnerable people to get their COVID-19 booster jabs “as soon as you can” to help avoid restrictions being imposed over Christmas. Around 30% of people aged over 80 and 40% of over-50s in England are yet to receive a top-up jab of the coronavirus vaccine, according to the
The UK has reported another 155 daily COVID deaths and a further 30,693 infections in the latest 24-hour period, according to government figures. The number of deaths is down on the 193 reported yesterday, and the number of cases is also lower than the 34,029 that were confirmed. There were 166 deaths and 41,278 cases