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US stocks open sharply lower amid pressure on oil market

G20 funds fossil fuels $30 bn a year under the radar: analysis

2:55 pm January 30, 2020

Paris: Rich nations are funnelling cash through government-backed financial institutions to provide 30 billion to fossil fuel projects each year that “run counter to the Paris Agreement”, a new analysis showed Thursday. The export credit agencies (ECAs) of G20 countries currently provide more than 10 times more state-backed finance to oil, gas and coal projects […]

NASA rover attempting most difficult Martian touchdown yet

New mission to take first peek at Sun’s poles: NASA

3:43 pm January 28, 2020

Washington: NASA, in collaboration with the European Space Agency (ESA), is launching a new spacecraft next month to snap the first pictures of the Sun’s north and south poles, the US space agency announced on Tuesday. The Solar Orbiter spacecraft will have its first opportunity to launch from Cape Canaveral in the US on February […]

Emotional final week for British MEPs

8:16 pm January 27, 2020

Brussels: Some will walk away with bitter regret. Others will march off with their flag held high. But British MEPs of every stripe face an emotional final week in Brussels. Those who believed in the European project were defeated by what they see as the “blatant lies” of the eurosceptics. Those who came to Brussels […]

German military resumes training troops in northern Iraq

7:21 pm January 26, 2020

Berlin: The German military resumed training Iraqi troops in the country’s Kurdish north on Sunday, about three weeks after it was suspended following the US killing of a top Iranian general in Baghdad. The military said the commander of the international operation fighting the Islamic State group lifted the suspension. Germany resumed training in Irbil […]

COVID surge, vaccine shortages spread beyond India’s borders

Trade ministers discuss priorities for WTO’s June ministerial meet

11:24 pm January 25, 2020

Davos: Trade ministers from 35 member countries of the WTO, including Piyush Goyal from India, met here on the sidelines of the WEF 2020 to discuss priorities and preparations for the June ministerial meeting of the global trade body. The informal gathering of the WTO members and the WTO General Director Roberto Azevedo was held […]