OPEC+ Considering Further 500,000 bpd.. to meet Tuesday

Singapore — Benchmark Dubai crude future spreads continued their downward spiral on the first trading day for February, with OPEC’s call for an urgent meeting of its technical committee on Tuesday and Wednesday doing little to assuage fears of a slowdown in oil demand on the back of the spread of the coronavirus. Crude oil …

OPEC may meet early as coronavirus impacts oil prices

OPEC may meet early as coronavirus impacts oil prices

LONDON (Bloomberg) – OPEC members are considering holding an emergency meeting next month, as oil prices sink on concern the coronavirus outbreak will hit demand. Algerian Energy Minister Mohamed Arkab said the producer group’s meeting scheduled for March is likely to be moved to February, the Algerie Presse Service reported. A decision may be taken …

Trump: We can’t let people with coronavirus come to US

Trump: We can’t let people with coronavirus come to US

United States President Donald Trump said on Sunday that the US “pretty much shut down” all travel from China to prevent more cases of the coronavirus coming to the country. “We’ve offered China help. But we can’t have thousands of people coming in who may have this problem, the coronavirus,” Trump stated in an interview …

U.S. Confirms Its Eighth Case of Coronavirus; Pentagon to Provide Quarantine Housing

U.S. Confirms Its Eighth Case of Coronavirus; Pentagon to Provide Quarantine Housing

(Reuters) – U.S. health officials on Saturday confirmed an eighth case of the fast-spreading new coronavirus in the United States and the Pentagon said it would provide housing for people arriving from overseas who might need to be quarantined. The latest U.S. patient, who is in Massachusetts, recently returned from Hubei province in central China, …

First Wuhan coronavirus death confirmed outside mainland China

First Wuhan coronavirus death confirmed outside mainland China

The latest: The coronavirus outbreak has killed at least 305 people and infected more than 14,300 globally, as it continues to spread beyond China. One person outside mainland China, a man in the Philippines, has died. Global spread: The virus has been confirmed in more than 25 countries and territories since it was first detected in the Chinese city of Wuhan in …

Taliban say mystery crash in Afghanistan was US aircraft

Taliban say mystery crash in Afghanistan was US aircraft

KABUL, Afghanistan – A U.S. military aircraft crashed in eastern Afghanistan on Monday, a Taliban spokesman and Afghan journalist affiliated with the militant group said. Tariq Ghazniwal, a journalist in the area, said that he saw the burning aircraft. In an exchange on Twitter, he told The Associated Press that he saw two bodies and …