At a meeting in Vienna on Friday, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries decided against cutting its oil output to lift prices, its president and Nigerian oil minister Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu said. Instead, the organization’s endorsement of present output,...
Alberta Premier Rachel Notley, leader of the province’s New Democratic Party that came to power in May, announced Sunday the plan for a C$20 ($14.97) tax per metric ton of carbon emitted, starting in 2017, the Globe and Mail reported.
“This proposal is NOT subject to any due diligence, financing or antitrust conditions and we are prepared to enter immediately into the exact same merger agreement that Pep Boys executed with Bridgestone Retail Operations, LLC”. This offer would beat out...
Under a pilot program called “Informed Delivery”, the USPS is emailing people photographs of the front side of their mail every morning before it is delivered, reports Quartz. While Informed Delivery is free to use, it’s only available to residential customers...
While speaking at a town hall hosted by Concerned Veterans for America in Waterloo, Iowa, on Saturday, the retired neurosurgeon questioned the need to allow transgender people to join the USA armed forces, reports CBS News.
According to a July deal between Iran and the world powers, financial sanctions imposed by the West against Iran, its banking system and industry over Tehran’s nuclear program, are expected to be lifted in return for scaling down the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program.
“What [Finance Minister] Mathias Cormann and I and the rest of the ERC have been doing for the last three many months has-been continuing to work on savings to ensure we can get the allot back to at least where it was in terms of the level it was [at the last budget] in...
According to the CDC, the E. coli outbreak affected more than 50 people in nine states – California, Minnesota, Ohio, New York, Oregon, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Washington.
Kerry also criticised Israel’s continued expansion of Jewish settlements in areas that the Palestinians claim as part of a future state, noting Palestinians were prevented from construction activity in Area C of the occupied West Bank.
Despite oil prices plunging by more than 60 per cent in 18 months, OPEC kingpin Saudi Arabia and the cartel’s other Gulf state members have defied calls to reduce output – in a year-long strategy of attempting to preserve market share and fend off competition from...
British airstrikes on ISIS will fail to defeat the militant group, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said in an interview with the Sunday Times newspaper, mocking Prime Minister David Cameron’s strategy in the region.