By Xinghui Kok, Raju Gopalakrishnan and Greg Torode SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Senior officials from about two dozen of the world’s major intelligence agencies held a secret meeting on the fringes of the Shangri-La Dialogue security meeting in Singapore this weekend, five people told Reuters. Such meetings are organised by the Singapore government and have been…
By Joanna Plucinska and Tim Hepher ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Lufthansa’s Chief Executive Carsten Spohr said on Sunday it was too soon to discuss the German airline group’s potential interest in taking over Portugal’s TAP as the Portuguese government is still debating the privatisation process. Portugal wants to keep a strategic stake in state-owned airline TAP…
(Reuters) – Saudi’s energy ministry said on Sunday the kingdom will extend its 500,000 bpd voluntary oil cut until the end of 2024, according to Saudi’s state news agency. (Reporting by Omar Abdel-Razek; editing by Barbara Lewis)
By Natalie Grover LONDON (Reuters) – AstraZeneca’s lung cancer therapy, Tagrisso, cut the risk of death by more than half in patients with a certain form of lung cancer who were diagnosed early enough to have their tumour surgically removed, trial data showed. Tagrisso is already the crown jewel in the Anglo-Swedish drugmaker’s portfolio, raking…
By Maha El Dahan, Alex Lawler and Ahmad Ghaddar VIENNA (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia will pledge new voluntary production cuts as part of a broader OPEC+ output-limiting deal, sources told Reuters, as the group faces flagging oil prices and a looming supply glut. The group, known as OPEC+, delayed the start of formal talks by…
LONDON (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia will make new voluntary cuts as part of an OPEC+ deal, an OPEC+ source told Reuters on Sunday. Two other OPEC+ sources said the group is likely to agree a policy roll over until 2023 and make additional cuts in 2024 if new production baselines for members are agreed. (Reporting…
By Jatindra Dash and YP Rajesh BAHANAGA, India (Reuters) -Indian rescue workers completed operations on Sunday after the country’s deadliest rail crash in more than two decades, with signal failure emerging as the likely cause of an accident that killed at least 275 people. The death toll from Friday’s crash was revised down from 288…
By Tim Hepher, Aditi Shah and Joanna Plucinska ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Airbus is closing towards a potentially record deal to sell 500 narrow-body A320-family jets to India’s largest carrier IndiGo, industry sources said on Sunday. The European planemaker has emerged as front-runner for an order eclipsing Air India’s historic provisional purchase of 470 jets in…
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Airlines said on Sunday they are ready to avoid a repeat of last year’s travel chaos, but warned that some flights could still be disrupted by controller strikes and hit out at schemes that force them to pay compensation for unavoidable delays. “I am reasonably confident that we’ll be able to get…
WARSAW (Reuters) -Hundreds of thousands of protesters gathered in Warsaw on Sunday, the 34th anniversary of Poland’s first postwar democratic election, for a march the liberal opposition has billed as a test of its ability to end nearly eight years of nationalist rule later this year. Crowds stretching for at least a mile marched with…
