Agreement follows protracted dispute after Russia’s Gazprom proposed a considerable price rise.Moldova will receive approximately three billion cubic meters (bcm) of gas per year under the terms of a new contract with Russia’s state-owned gas company Gazprom, the country’s deputy prime minister has said. Andrei Spinu’s announcement on Monday came after Gazprom and the Moldovan…Continue Reading
Barclays Plc Chief Executive Officer Jes Staley is stepping down amid a U.K. regulatory probe into how he characterized his past ties to the financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Staley, 64, is leaving immediately, according to a statement Monday. C.S. Venkatakrishnan, who was promoted last year to run the Barclays markets division and was…Continue Reading
‘Politics are going to run deep through this thing,’ law professor says of the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse for murders.The trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, the US teen charged with killing two men and wounding a third with a military-style rifle during protests against racism and police brutality in Wisconsin last year, will kick off with…Continue Reading
Kuwait is the latest OPEC+ member to reject US President Joe Biden’s call to boost oil output faster and help ease prices.By Salma El Wardany and Javier BlasBloombergOPEC+ headed for a clash with the U.S. as more members rejected President Joe Biden’s call for the group to raise oil production faster and help reduce gasoline prices.…Continue Reading
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Sydney’s international airport came alive with tears, embraces and laughter on Monday as Australia opened its border for the first time in 20 months, with some arriving travelers removing mandatory masks to see the faces of loved ones they’ve been separated from for so long.Australia and other countries in the Asia-Pacific…Continue Reading
The global death toll from COVID-19 topped 5 million on Monday, less than two years into a crisis that has not only devastated poor countries but also humbled wealthy ones with first-rate health care systems.Together, the United States, the European Union, Britain and Brazil — all upper-middle- or high-income countries — account for one-eighth of…Continue Reading
ROME (AP) — Leaders of the world’s biggest economies agreed Sunday to stop funding coal-fired power plants in poor countries and made a vague commitment to seek carbon neutrality “by or around mid-century” as they wrapped up a Rome summit before the much larger United Nations climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland.While Italian Prime Minister Mario…Continue Reading
TOKYO (AP) — A man dressed in Batman’s Joker costume and brandishing a knife on a Tokyo commuter train on Sunday stabbed several passengers before starting a fire, which sent people scrambling to escape and jumping from windows, police and witnesses said.The Tokyo Fire Department said 17 passengers were injured, including three seriously. Not all…Continue Reading
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Jury selection starts Monday in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, an Illinois man accused of killing two people at a police brutality protest last year.Rittenhouse’s trial is expected to last at least two weeks. Here’s a look at the key players:THE DEFENDANTRittenhouse, of Antioch, Illinois, was 17 at…Continue Reading
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Americans’ opinions on the U.S. economy have soured noticeably in the past month, a new poll finds, with nearly half expecting economic conditions to worsen in the next year.Just 35% of Americans now call the national economy good, while 65% call it poor, according to a poll by The Associated Press-NORC…Continue Reading