Commercial aircraft maker Airbus lost 1.36 billion euros ($1.48 billion) in 2019 because of a multibillion-euro bribery settlement with authorities in three countries, but otherwise saw a record year of … Click to Continue »
The oil industry in South Sudan has left a landscape pocked with hundreds of open waste pits, the water and soil contaminated with toxic chemicals and heavy metals including mercury, … Click to Continue »
The oil industry in South Sudan has left a landscape pocked with hundreds of open waste pits, the water and soil contaminated with toxic chemicals and heavy metals, according to … Click to Continue »
Cesar Awards, the French equivalent of the Oscars, has promised to make sweeping changes to increase gender parity and “diversity”, after a #MeToo outcry sparked by 12 nominations for Roman Polanski's newest film. Anger over Polanski's abundant accolades for An Officer and a Spy motivated producer Alain Terzian to spear head the protest, which includes...
Health authorities in China's Hubei province reported 14,840 new cases of coronavirus Thursday morning, bringing the nationwide total to nearly 60,000. The daily count for Hubei – the epicenter of … Click to Continue »
The UN Security Council has endorsed a 55-point road map for ending the war in Libya, condemning the recent increase in violence in the oil-rich North African country. The vote on the British-drafted resolution was 14-0 on Wednesday. Russian Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia said he abstained because of “serious doubts” about whether the resolution can be...
Fear. Surprising moments of levity. Soul-crushing boredom. Life on the Diamond Princess, the cruise ship quarantined in a Japanese port with scores of cases of a new virus, means experiencing … Click to Continue »
