Tag: Oil

An indigenous community in Ecuador’s Amazon region is blocking access to one of state oil company Petroecuador’s main fields in a protest over compensation, prompting the company to request help from the armed forces to deliver supplies.In a statement on Saturday, Petroecuador said the protest has left it unable to send supplies needed to maintain…

A former member of Greece’s extreme right Golden Dawn party, Ioannis Lagos, was extradited to Athens on Saturday from Brussels, where he was a member of the European parliament.EU lawmakers stripped Lagos of his immunity last month, paving the way for his arrest and extradition to Greece where he is to serve a prison sentence…

Kelly Olynyk collected 20 points, 11 assists and nine rebounds as the Houston Rockets ended a seven-game losing streak with a 122-115 win against the visiting Los Angeles Clippers on Friday night.

India reported on Saturday 326,098 new coronavirus infections over the prior 24 hours, taking its tally to 24.37 million, while deaths showed a slight fall, to 3,890.

An oil painting by Pablo Picasso sold for $103.4 million at a Christie’s auction in New York, smashing its presale estimate of $55 million.The portrait of Picasso’s French lover Marie-Therese, “Femme assise près d’une fenêtre (Marie-Thérèse)”, or ‘Woman sitting near a window,’ led the ’20th Century Evening Sale’ on Thursday.Keith Gill, head of the Impressionist…

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said on Friday that a state of emergency was being extended to a broader area due to a rapid rise of coronavirus cases in those regions.But he added that holding a “safe and secure” Olympic games was possible if tight preventive measures were implemented that would keep ordinary Japanese from…

An Alabama couple went viral earlier this week for stockpiling gas during a panicked rush on gas stations sparked by the temporary closure of the Colonial pipeline, which transports nearly half of the East Coast’s fuel supply from Texas.The Colonial pipeline restarted operations on Wednesday, two days after that photo was taken. The panic buying…

China’s Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (SMIC) (0981.HK) said on Friday that demand for chips exceeds supply, and raised its expectations for sales for the first half of the year.”Our current capacity could not fulfill customer needs, and products in every market segment faced shortages,” Zhao Haijun, co-chief executive of SMIC, said in a company earnings…

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-NM) speaks during a Senate Intelligence Committee nomination hearing for Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-TX), on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., May 5, 2020. Andrew Harnik/Pool via REUTERS//File Photo By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democratic Senator Martin Heinrich on Thursday introduced a bill that would help states…

During a typical spring, the silver young salmon swimming in long tanks at the Nimbus Fish Hatchery east of Sacramento would be released into the American River and then make their way out to the Pacific Ocean to grow to adulthood.