Several companies that certify that ships are in a position to navigate and ship insurers have withdrawn services to oil tankers involved in the Venezuelan oil trade, as the United States targets the maritime industry to tighten sanctions in the Latin American country. U.S. sanctions have brought Venezuela’s oil exports …
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The World Health Organization reported 212,000 new cases of coronavirus worldwide, the highest increase in a single day since the start of the pandemic. The WHO said it was suspending its trials of the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine and the HIV drug lopinavir / ritonavir in hospitalized patients with COVID-19 after …
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Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has rejected a law requiring the use of face masks in public places, even when the number of confirmed cases of coronavirus in the country exceeded 1.5 million. The Latin American country has the second largest outbreak in the world after the United States. The new …
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United States federal prosecutors are trying to seize four oil tankers sailing to Venezuela with gasoline supplied by Iran, the latest attempt to sever increasingly close trade ties between the two heavily sanctioned anti-American allies. The civil forfeiture lawsuit filed Wednesday night in the federal court of the District of …
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The United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution demanding an “immediate cessation of hostilities” for at least 90 days in key conflicts including Syria, Yemen, Libya, South Sudan and the Congo to confront the pandemic of coronavirus. New cases of coronavirus in the United States increased by nearly 50,000, …
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