MEXICO CITY / SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Oil tankers transporting nearly two months of Venezuelan oil production are trapped at sea as world refineries avoid the nation’s crude to avoid falling under U.S. sanctions, according to sources at the industry, PDVSA documents and shipping data. Washington is tightening sanctions to reduce …
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – The death toll in Latin America from the coronavirus pandemic surpassed 100,000 on Tuesday, according to a Reuters count, with little sign that the outbreak is easing in a region marked by crowded cities and high levels of poverty. FILE PHOTO: The faithful of the Afro-Brazilian …
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MUNICH / MANILA (Reuters) – The Philippines is investigating Wirecard’s $ 2.1 billion accounting scandal, which said former chief operating officer of German payments firm Jan Marsalek could be in the country. FILE PHOTO: Markus Braun, CEO of Wirecard AG, an independent provider of white label outsourcing solutions for electronic …
Read More »Trump beats protesters at Phoenix rally, visits border wall in Arizona
PHOENIX, Arizona (Reuters) – United States President Donald Trump tried to turn the nationwide protests to his political advantage into a campaign appearance in Arizona’s electoral state on Tuesday, vowing to prevent “the mob from left “push the United States into chaos. Trump, whose first manifestation of the coronavirus pandemic …
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