© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A TORC Oil & Gas pump jack near Granum By Vladimir Soldatkin, Rania El Gamal and Ahmad Ghaddar MOSCOW/DUBAI/LONDON (Reuters) – Some members of the OPEC+ group of oil-producing nations would…
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There has been a clash of clans in mobile gaming, with angry birds Apple, Google and Epic Games in a saga over in-app payments. Video game developer Epic’s massively popular “battle royale” game Fortnite was…
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The British- and American-backed plot to overthrow Iran’s prime minister in 1953 laid the groundwork for the 1979 Iran hostage crisis and decades of hostility with the U.S. A documentary about the plot released on…
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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Pump jacks operate at sunset in Midland TOKYO (Reuters) – Oil prices fell on Thursday as major producers warned of a risk to the recovery in demand if the coronavirus crisis…
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Until it was hunted to extinction, the thylacine – also known as the Tasmanian tiger or Tasmanian wolf – was the world’s largest marsupial predator. However, our new research shows it was in fact only…
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There are growing signs that the aid relationship between the Global South and the Global North is changing fast. Many traditional Western donors are reevaluating the role of aid while keeping a close eye on…
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© Reuters. California faces rolling power outages as heatwave continues (Reuters) – California power companies urged customers to conserve energy through Thursday to avoid more rotating outages as the brutal heat wave blanketing the state…
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Flight makes bats unique among mammals and confers on them the potential to cover large distances. And yet, for most of the approximately 1,400 or so species of bats, we have little information about the…
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Before coronavirus, inequality was already increasing in many parts of the developing world. But the pandemic is going to greatly heighten existing economic and social inequalities. Here are five of the main ways inequality is…
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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: The sun is seen behind a crude oil pump jack in the Permian Basin in Loving County By Yuka Obayashi TOKYO (Reuters) – Oil prices slid on Wednesday as concerns grew…
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