To go electric, America needs more mines. Can it build them?
By Ernest Scheyder
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Yemenis reel from poverty, hunger as U.N. pleads for funds and war’s end
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New WTO chief calls for tripling of vaccine production
By Emma Farge and Philip Blenkinsop
GENEVA (Reuters) – The new chief of the World Trade Organization (WTO) urged its (More…)
Global COVID-19 infections up for first time in seven weeks, WHO says
ZURICH (Reuters) – The number of new coronavirus infections globally rose last week for the first time in seven weeks, (More…)
As pandemic eases elsewhere, some Caribbean states face worst outbreaks yet
By Kate Chappell and Sarah Marsh
KINGSTON (Reuters) – In Jamaica, which won praise for containing its coronavirus outbreak last (More…)
Yemenis reel from poverty, hunger as U.N. pleads for funds and war’s end
SANAA (Reuters) – Unable to find work, Ahmed Farea has sold everything including his wife’s gold to feed and house (More…)
U.S. Senate Democrats drop minimum wage plan for $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill
By Susan Cornwell
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Democrats, anxious for Congress to pass President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief (More…)
Texas electricity firm files for bankruptcy citing $1.8 billion in claims from grid operator
By Gary McWilliams
HOUSTON (Reuters) – Texas’s largest and oldest electric power cooperative on Monday filed for bankruptcy protection in (More…)
One year into pandemic, sky begins to clear over U.S. economy
By Ann Saphir and Howard Schneider
SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Despite the U.S. economy’s near miss with a depression last (More…)
UK to prioritize next stage of COVID-19 vaccines by age, not job
By Alistair Smout
LONDON (Reuters) – Police and teachers will not jump to the head of the queue in the (More…)
G20 to show united front on support for global economic recovery, cash for IMF
By Michael Nienaber and Andrea Shalal
BERLIN/WASHINGTON/ROME (Reuters) – The world’s financial leaders are expected on Friday to agree to (More…)
