Investing.com– Oil prices fell from a near 10-month high on Monday, seeing a measure of profit taking after a stellar rally over the past month, although bets on tightening supplies still kept Brent above key levels.  Markets turned cautious before key due later this week, which is largely expected to…

DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran has agreed with Washington to free five U.S. citizens in exchange for the transfer of $6 billion in frozen Iranian assets in South Korea to banks in Qatar and the release of a similar number of Iranians held in the United States. Following are the prisoners…

By Arathy Somasekhar HOUSTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on Friday released a draft environmental impact statement (EIS) for Energy Transfer (NYSE:)’s Dakota Access oil pipeline that evaluated but made no recommendation of five alternatives, including abandoning or rerouting the pipeline. A U.S. court last year ordered…

By Clark Mindock (Reuters) – The state of Alaska sued President Joe Biden’s administration on Friday seeking to block its decision to reverse a policy begun under his predecessor Donald Trump that had opened vast swaths of the Tongass National Forest, the largest such wilderness in the United States, to…

By Shivangi Acharya, Sarita Chaganti Singh and Katya Golubkova NEW DELHI (Reuters) -The European Union castigated Russia on Saturday for pulling out of the Black Sea (NYSE:) grain deal, calling its offer of a million tons of grain to African countries a “parody of generosity”. Charles Michel, president of the…

By Krishn Kaushik and Aftab Ahmed NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India served millet, a staple for millions of Indians, to world leaders at a gala dinner at the end of the first day of the G20 Leaders Summit in New Delhi on Saturday. From leaf crisps to pudding, the foodstuff…

A look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets from Mike Dolan Some soothing words from Federal Reserve officials calmed a jumpy first week of September for world markets, aggravated by geopolitical tech wars that saw Apple (NASDAQ:) caught in the crosshairs. The world’s most valuable company, whose…

By Valerie Volcovici (Reuters) – The Standing Rock Sioux reservation near the border of North and South Dakota has some of America’s most powerful winds, with 20 mile an hour (mph) gusts regularly scouring its vast plains. The tribe in 2020 launched a plan to harness that energy with what…

By Michelle Nichols (Reuters) – A Russian Agricultural Bank subsidiary in Luxembourg could immediately apply to SWIFT to “effectively enable access” for the bank to the international payments system within 30 days, the United Nations told Russia in a letter, seen by Reuters on Friday. “SWIFT has confirmed that RSHB…

By David Stanway and Riham Alkousaa (Reuters) -The world is not on target to curb global warming and more action is needed on all fronts, the United Nations warned on Friday, in the run-up to crucial international talks aimed at stemming the climate crisis. The Global Stocktake report, the latest…