As the second wave of COVID-19 sweeps across Africa, bringing steep increases in infections and deaths, the battle between facts and conspiracies – especially around the safety of COVID vaccines – has also intensified. For…
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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A view shows branded oil tanks at Saudi Aramco oil facility in Abqaiq By Davide Barbuscia DUBAI (Reuters) – Oil-rich Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, whose state coffers have been battered…
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The US$1,400 direct checks to people are the most expensive and perhaps most popular part of the $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package racing its way through Congress right now. The House is set to vote…
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The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea Mice with certain communities of fungi living in their gut gained more weight when eating processed food than mice whose gut…
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© Reuters. By Gina Lee Investing.com – Oil was up Monday morning in Asia, with a on Saudi Arabia oil facilities giving the black liquid a boost. Brent futures remained above the $70 mark that…
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The governors of Texas and Mississippi announced that they were rescinding their statewide mask mandates and allowing restaurants and other businesses to return to 100% capacity in early March. The moves come while new infection…
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© Reuters By Barani Krishnan Investing.com — A year ago, Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman lamented that “psychological factors” and “extremely negative expectations” were hampering the oil market despite “very limited impact on global oil demand”.…
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The governors of Texas and Mississippi announced that they were rescinding their statewide mask mandates and allowing restaurants and other businesses to return to 100% capacity in early March. The moves come while new infection…
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Over the past few days, Google has been inking multimillion-dollar deals to pay media companies for news content that will appear on Google News Showcase. Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp is the latest beneficiary of a…
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© Reuters. By Barani Krishnan Investing.com – US gasoline futures finished their first week above $2 per gallon since 2019, while global crude benchmark Brent neared $70 a barrel, after producer alliance OPEC+ largely withheld…
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