Exxon is in crisis. Angry shareholders are rebelling
For decades, ExxonMobil was an unstoppable machine and the envy of the oil industry. Now that machine has broken down — and Exxon’s critics...
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Delta’s new travel corridor offers quarantine-free access to the Netherlands
The latest pandemic-era protocol from Delta Air Lines will let some passengers coming from the US have quarantine-free entry to Amsterdam.
America’s CEOs have advice for Biden’s long road ahead
More than two dozen leading chief executives offer advice to the incoming Biden administration.
There’s a new coronavirus variant in the UK. Here’s what we know.
Vaccines will likely work just as well against the variant.
The UK is sending robot submarines to watch the world’s largest iceberg crash into an island
The world’s largest iceberg appears days away from crashing into a penguin-filled island. These robots will study the aftermath.
Boko Haram claims to have kidnapped Nigerian schoolboys, in unverified audio message
A man claiming to be a leader of Boko Haram said the terror group was responsible for kidnapping scores of schoolboys in northwestern Nigeria...
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 15 (IPS) – Just before the World Health Assembly (WHA), an 18 May open letter by world leaders and...
Japan ‘Twitter killer’ sentenced to death for nine murders
Author: AFP ID: 1608028380257363400 Tue, 2020-12-15 10:22 TOKYO: A Japanese man dubbed the “Twitter killer” was sentenced to death by a Tokyo court on...
Fire at Russian retirement home kills 11
Author: Associated Press ID: 1608033074567554100 Tue, 2020-12-15 11:46 MOSCOW: A fire in a retirement home in Russia’s southern Urals killed 11 people while three...
Over 570,000 Uighurs involved in China cotton coerced labor
Author: AFP ID: 1608038333987871500 Tue, 2020-12-15 10:48 BEIJING: Hundreds of thousands of ethnic minority laborers in China’s northwestern Xinjiang region are being forced to...
Sudan: ‘It made me dream again’: The students refusing to let war stop their education 
Palestinian Children Deserve Education, not Ethnic Cleansing 
INDIA: ‘The Cockroach Janta Party Brings Together Everyone Who Has Been Neglected for Years’ 
Where Some See Waste, Others See Opportunity: Young Sierra Leoneans Fight Against Electronic Waste, Plastic Pollution