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Oil prices end mixed as traders await OPEC+ meeting

Oil prices end mixed as traders await OPEC+...

New York (US), November 30: Oil prices closed mixed on Tuesday as market participants awaited a key meeting by major...

U.S. crude oil inventories down: API

U.S. crude oil inventories down: API

Houston (US), November 30: The American Petroleum Institute (API) on Tuesday reported a decrease of 7.85 million barrels of crude...

LatAm receives over 142 bln USD in FDI in 2021: UN agency

LatAm receives over 142 bln USD in FDI...

Santiago (Chile), November 30: Latin America and the Caribbean received 142.79 billion U.S. dollars in foreign direct investment (FDI) in...

U.S. stocks end mixed as Wall Street awaits Powell's speech

U.S. stocks end mixed as Wall Street awaits...

New York (US), November 30: U.S. stocks finished mixed on Tuesday, ahead of a key speech by Federal Reserve Chairman...

Canada's economy rises 0.7 pct in third quarter

Canada's economy rises 0.7 pct in third quarter

Ottawa (Canada), November 30: Canada's real gross domestic product (GDP) rose 0.7 percent in the third quarter, the fifth consecutive...

Apple announces 2022 Apple Podcasts Award winner

Apple announces 2022 Apple Podcasts Award winner

San Francisco (US), November 30: Apple on Tuesday announced the Apple Podcasts Award honoring a Show of the Year and...

Black Friday sales rise modestly in Finland: statistics

Black Friday sales rise modestly in Finland: statistics

Helsinki (Finland), November 30: This year's Black Friday sales in Finland were higher than last year, if only modestly, the...

IAEA says to strengthen presence in all nuclear plants in Ukraine

IAEA says to strengthen presence in all nuclear...

Kiev (Ukraine), November 30: The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will strengthen its presence at all nuclear power plants (NPPs)...

Horn of Africa facing unprecedented drought emergency with catastrophic outcomes: UN report

Horn of Africa facing unprecedented drought emergency with...

Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), November 30: The Horn of Africa is facing an unprecedented drought emergency with catastrophic consequences, the United...

Israel's exports of hi-tech services rise 13.5 pct in Q3

Israel's exports of hi-tech services rise 13.5 pct...

Jerusalem (Israel), November 30: The exports of Israeli hi-tech services rose in the third quarter by 13.5 percent year-on-year, the...

U.S. takes N. Korean provocations seriously: Kirby

U.S. takes N. Korean provocations seriously: Kirby

Washington (US), November 29: The United States takes seriously the threats posed by North Korea's evolving military capabilities, a White...

Yoon warns of unprecedented response if N. Korea conducts nuclear test

Yoon warns of unprecedented response if N. Korea...

Seoul (South Korea), November 29: President Yoon Suk-yeol said any new nuclear test by North Korea will be met with...

UN chief saddened by death of former peacemaker

UN chief saddened by death of former peacemaker

United Nations, November 29: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was saddened by the death of Francesc Vendrell, a mediator who helped...

Aid access in Ethiopia's Tigray opens up but not wide enough: UN

Aid access in Ethiopia's Tigray opens up but...

United Nations, November 29: UN humanitarians said on Monday that access for aid deliveries in Ethiopia's Tigray region since the...

UN chief calls for action in 3 areas to prevent disaster of biological weapons

UN chief calls for action in 3 areas...

United Nations, November 29: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday called for action in three areas to prevent the disaster...

Iran summons German envoy over officials' "meddlesome" remarks, UNHRC resolution

Iran summons German envoy over officials' "meddlesome" remarks,...

Tehran (Iran), November 29: The Iranian Foreign Ministry on Monday summoned the German ambassador for the third time in the...

Iran signs 300-mln-USD MoU for car exports to Russia

Iran signs 300-mln-USD MoU for car exports to...

Tehran (Iran), November 29: Iran has signed a Memorandum of Understanding valued at 300 million U.S. dollars with Russia for...

Over 20,000 illegal migrants rescued off Libyan coast since start of 2022

Over 20,000 illegal migrants rescued off Libyan coast...

Tripoli (Libya), November 29: The International Organization for Migration (IOM) on Monday said a total of 20,842 were rescued and...

WHO renames monkeypox as "mpox" to avoid stigma

WHO renames monkeypox as "mpox" to avoid stigma

Geneva (Switzerland), November 29: To avoid racist stereotypes and stigmatization, the World Health Organization (WHO) recommended on Monday that the...

UN recommends Great Barrier Reef be listed as "in danger"

UN recommends Great Barrier Reef be listed as...

Canberra (Australia), November 29: A landmark United Nations (UN) report has recommended Australia's iconic Great Barrier Reef be added to...

Intl' students contribute 5 bln euros a year to French economy : survey

Intl' students contribute 5 bln euros a year...

Paris (France), November 29: International students contribute around 5 billion euros (5.2 billion U.S. dollars) a year to the French...

New COVID-19 subvariants account for over half new cases in U.S.

New COVID-19 subvariants account for over half new...

Los Angeles (US), November 29: New Omicron subvariants BQ.1 and BQ.1.1 accounted for over half of new COVID-19 cases in...

Roundup: U.S. weekly flu hospitalizations hit record high since 2010

Roundup: U.S. weekly flu hospitalizations hit record high...

Los Angeles (US), November 29: Over 11,200 patients in the United States were hospitalized with flu in the latest week,...

Amazon Web Services to return more water than it uses by 2030

Amazon Web Services to return more water than...

San Francisco (US), November 29: Amazon Web Services (AWS), a subsidiary of Amazon, on Monday announced it will be water...

Japan's PM seeks to up defense budget to 2 pct of GDP in fiscal 2027

Japan's PM seeks to up defense budget to...

Tokyo (Japan), November 29: Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Monday required cabinet ministers to increase Japan's defense budget to...

Some 460,000 people in Cambodia fall below poverty line due to pandemic: WB

Some 460,000 people in Cambodia fall below poverty...

Phnom Penh (Cambodia), November 28: Some 460,000 people in Cambodia have fallen below poverty income thresholds since the onset of...

Australia lowers terrorism threat level

Australia lowers terrorism threat level

Canberra (Australia), November 28: Australia's terrorism threat level has been downgraded for the first time in almost a decade.