[ad_1] HALIFAX, Nova Scotia (Reuters) – United States national security adviser Robert O’Brien said on Saturday that an initial trade agreement with China is still possible by the end of the year, but warned Washington
AMS shareholder Temasek backs plans for Osram takeover
[ad_1] FILE PHOTO: The logo of German lighting manufacturer Osram is illuminated at the company’s headquarters in Munich, Germany, September 16, 2019. PIcture taken with long exposure. REUTERS/Andreas Gebert/File Photo BERLIN (Reuters) – Singapore’s state
China attacks U.S. at G20 as the world’s biggest source of instability
[ad_1] BEIJING (Reuters) – The United States is the world’s biggest source of instability and its politicians are going around the world baselessly smearing China, the Chinese government’s top diplomat said on Saturday in a
Iran asks Russia to provide $2 billion loan for power plants, railroads: Russian energy minister
[ad_1] Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak attends the Energy Week International Forum in Moscow, Russia, October 3, 2019. REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina/File Photo MOSCOW (Reuters) – Iran has asked Russia to provide an additional $2 billion loan
Egypt signs energy accords at conference in new capital
[ad_1] CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt said it had signed several energy accords at a conference in its partially built new capital on Saturday, including a $430-million deal for Texas-based Noble Energy to pump natural gas
Italy’s government restarts talks with ArcelorMittal over ailing Ilva steel plant
[ad_1] ROME (Reuters) – ArcelorMittal has agreed to immediately restart talks with the Italian government over the future of steelmaker Ilva, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said after a four hour-long meeting with the company’s leaders.
Namibia’s former fisheries minister, ex-Investec manager arrested on corruption charges
[ad_1] WINDHOEK (Reuters) – Namibian police on Saturday arrested the former Minister of Fisheries Bernhardt Esau and a former senior manager of investment firm Investec on charges of corruption. Police Inspector-General Sebastian Ndeitunga said Esau
How jihadists struck gold in Africa’s Sahel
[ad_1] OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) – People around Pama, a West African town on the edge of vast forested conservation areas, had long been forbidden by their government to dig for gold in the reserves, to protect
Argentina creditors jockey for lead ahead of $100 billion debt talks
[ad_1] LONDON/NEW YORK/BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Several factions of Argentina’s bondholders are jostling for influence ahead of restructuring talks with incoming president Alberto Fernandez as Latin America’s third-largest economy tries to avert a default, more
Longer-term data fail to clear concern over Takeda’s dengue vaccine
[ad_1] CHICAGO (Reuters) – An additional six months of data from a late-stage trial of Takeda Pharmaceutical Co’s experimental dengue vaccine again showed it failed to protect against one of the four types of the