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U.S. environmental activists are heaping pressure on Democratic presidentelect Joe Biden to avoid cabinet appointees with fossil fuel ties, with one group on Tuesday slamming his pick of a congressman who received donations from the oil and gas industry.

The U.S. Justice Department is dropping its drug trafficking and money laundering against former Mexican defense secretary Gen. Salvador Cienfuegos, Attorney General William Barr said Tuesday.

Benchmark U.S. crude oil for December delivery rose 9 cents to $41.43 a barrel Tuesday. Brent crude oil for January delivery fell 7 cents to $43.75 a barrel.

U.S. doctors and nurses, in a letter published on Tuesday, urged the Trump administration to share critical COVID19 data with Presidentelect Joe Biden's transition team to avoid unnecessary delays in tackling the pandemic as infections and hospitalization...

Morocco has finished building a sand barrier in a U.N.monitored buffer zone in Western Sahara, Prime Minister Saad Eddine El Otmani told Reuters on Tuesday, after the Polisario Front independence movement withdrew from a ceasefire.

Iran's health minister warned on Tuesday that coronavirus deaths may more than double soon if Iranians flout rules aimed at containing the virus, as new cases surged to a record high in the Middle East's worsthit country.

A credit derivatives committee has been asked to rule whether a 'failure to pay' credit event has been triggered by Zambia, paving the way for a potential payout for holders of default insurance on the country's sovereign debt.

Presidentelect Joe Biden announced a raft of top White House staff positions on Tuesday, drawing from the senior ranks of his campaign and some of his closest confidants to fill out an increasingly diverse White House leadership team.

Saudi Arabia has told Yemen's Houthis in highlevel back channel talks it would sign a UN proposal for a nationwide ceasefire if the Iranaligned group agrees to a buffer zone along the kingdom's borders, three sources familiar with the matter said.

Denmark's minority government finally gained parliamentary support on Tuesday to legalise the cull it ordered earlier this month of all farmed mink to prevent the spread of coronavirus, but a poll showed public trust had plummeted over the crisis.

A military patrol has discovered 29 bodies in a region of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo where civilians are facing a sharp rise in attacks by Islamist militants, local authorities said on Tuesday.

At Tuesday's auction of state development loans (SDLs), nine states raised Rs 8,716 crore, taking overall borrowings to Rs 4.72 lakh crore or 93 per cent of the target, by 28 states and two Union Territories since April 7, Care Ratings said in a note afte...

Candidates who participated in OJEE counselling 2020 can check their name in the OJEE 2020 seat allotment list on official website ojee.nic.in.

Rajasthan BJP president Satish Poonia has said Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot's reaction to Congress leader Kapil Sibal's remarks on his party has proved that it is facing infighting.

Walmart turned out another stellar quarter as the worlds largest retailer powers through a pandemic that has felled other national chains.

Some senior Congress leaders, including Kapil Sibal, have called for introspection after the party's dismal performance in the recently held Bihar assembly polls after which the ruling NDA returned to power in the state.