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Trump Instructs Treasury, Energy Depts to Devise Plan to Fund Oil, Gas Industry

US President Donald Trump said he has instructed departments of treasury and energy to devise a plan aimed at funding oil and gas industry in the country. “We will never let the great US Oil & Gas Industry down. I have instructed the Secretary of Energy and Secretary of the ...

April 21, 2020

Int'l Organizations

Global Hunger Could Double Due to COVID-19 Blow: UN

The number of people facing acute food insecurity could nearly double this year to 265 million due to the economic fallout of COVID-19, the United Nations’ World Food Programme (WFP) said on Tuesday. The impact of lost tourism revenues, falling remittances and travel and other restrictions linked to the coronavirus ...

April 21, 2020

Europe

European Stocks Slump as WTI Crashes Back Below Zero

European stock markets slumped Tuesday after US oil prices crashed back below zero as the coronavirus crisis wipes out global crude demand and sparks a vast supply glut. In early morning deals, London’s benchmark FTSE 100 index tumbled 1.7 percent to 5,713.70 points, Frankfurt’s DAX erased 2.0 percent to 10,462.56 ...

April 21, 2020

Americas

Trump Will Consider Blocking Saudi Oil Imports as US Prices Crash

Hours after United States benchmark crude prices stunned even hardened oil veterans with a sudden, sharp crash into negative territory, President Donald Trump said his administration will look at a proposal to block Saudi Arabian oil shipments to the US to help buoy the US shale oil industry against an ...

April 21, 2020

Americas

US to Use Historically Low Oil Prices to Fill Strategic Reserve

The US Department of Energy’s (DoE) emergency petroleum supply will be filled to the brim, Trump said at the White House Coronavirus Task Force briefing on Monday. “We are filling up our national petroleum reserves. We are looking to put as much as 75 million barrels into the reserves themselves,” ...

April 21, 2020

Americas

US Records 1,433 Coronavirus Deaths in Past 24 Hours: Johns Hopkins

The coronavirus death toll in the United States — the country with the most fatalities in the pandemic — has climbed by 1,433 in the past 24 hours to reach 42,094, the latest tally from Johns Hopkins University showed Monday. The US has recorded more than 784,000 confirmed cases of ...

April 21, 2020

Americas

Trump Says to Ban Immigration into US over ‘Coronavirus Pandemic’

President Donald Trump has said he will sign an executive order suspending all immigration to the United States as the coronavirus crisis deepens. “In light of the attack from the Invisible Enemy, as well as the need to protect the jobs of our GREAT American Citizens, I will be signing ...

April 21, 2020

Live News

Coronavirus Deaths Top 165,000 Globally

The worldwide death toll from the novel coronavirus pandemic rose to 165,216 on Monday, according to a tally from official sources compiled by AFP at 1100 GMT. More than 2,403,410 declared cases have been registered in 193 countries and territories since the epidemic first emerged in China in December. Of ...

April 20, 2020

Americas

US Coronavirus Death Toll Rises to 40,000 as Cases Hit 750,000

The US death toll from the novel coronavirus rose to more than 40,000 on Sunday, the highest in the world and almost double the number of deaths in the next highest country Italy, according to a Reuters tally. It took the United States 38 days after recording its first fatality ...

April 20, 2020

Live News

Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang

China Rejects Australia’s Call for Probe into Virus Response

China on Monday rejected Australia’s call for a probe examining the global response to the coronavirus pandemic. But Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said the accusations disrespected “the Chinese people’s tremendous efforts and sacrifices” in fighting the contagion. “Any question about China’s transparency in the prevention and control of ...

April 20, 2020