(Reuters) – The Mexican government is considering a $ 120 million offer for a luxurious presidential plane after a potential unidentified buyer offered to pay part in cash and part in medical equipment, a government official said Monday. FILE PHOTO: Boeing 787-8 Presidential Dreamliner of the Mexican Air Force is …
Read More »Canada and the United States could extend the ban on non-essential travel ban: sources
OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada and the United States are ready to extend the non-essential travel ban that was imposed to combat the coronavirus outbreak, although no final decision has been made, two Ottawa sources familiar with the matter said Monday. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau attends a press conference at …
Read More »Why is silver trading at a maximum of almost 4 years?
Silver futures marked their biggest sell-off in nearly four years on Monday, fueled by a sharp rise in investment demand as the metal continues to catch up with sister metal gold. Trading in the gray metal is worth just 10% of what gold sees every day, so hedge funds and …
Read More »Prayers for the dead as young Myanmar jade miners cried
(Reuters) – College student Saw Myint Tun traveled hundreds of miles from his home in February to work in the jade mines of northern Myanmar in search of gems that could transform his family’s modest fortune. Family members pray next to a coffin containing the body of a victim after …
Read More »An 11,000-year-old mine in an underwater cave surprises archaeologists
In the spring of 2017, a pair of divers first moved their fins through a narrow passageway in a water-filled cave below the Mexican Yucatan peninsula. They had already swum nearly half a mile through the cave system, spinning around rock needles jutting out from the roof and floor, when …
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