Sources: Reuters
The World Bank approves a new financial intermediary fund consisting of grants from the United States, Japan, Canada, and other countries coupled with interest from frozen Russian assets to give to Ukraine as part of a $50 billion loan. $2024-10-10
Russia becomes China's biggest supplier of oil, surpassing Saudi Arabia and making up over half of China's oil imports. 2022-06-21
The White House announces $12 billion in bailouts for farmers and ranchers affected by recently imposed retaliatory tariffs. $2018-07-24
A U.S. federal judge approves AT&T's $85 billion merger with Time Warner. $2018-06-12
Russia and Saudi Arabia agree on a plan to manipulate oil output. 2016-09-5
President of Paraguay Federico Franco announces that his country will become an oil producing nation, after a recent discovery in the Chaco region, close to the border with Argentina. 2012-11-26
An explosion at an oil storage tank in Gibraltar closes the port and injures workers and cruise ship passengers. 2011-06-1
At least 27 people are killed and eighty injured after oil leaks from a pipeline near the town of Pakokku in Burma. 2010-10-25
Italian authorities seize 23 million euro (approximately US$30 million) from a Vatican bank account in a money laundering probe. $2010-09-21
Environmentalists said that an oil spill near Hurghada Egypt in the Red Sea is continuing even after the government said it had been contained, leaving turtles and sea birds covered in oil. 2010-06-22