By Nicole Jao NEW YORK (Reuters) -Oil prices climbed around 2% on Tuesday as the Middle East crisis and a Libyan supply outage pared the previous day’s heavy losses. Brent crude futures settled $1.47, or 1.9%, higher at $77.59 a barrel, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude (WTI) ended $1.47, or 2.1%, higher at $72.24. …
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By Ange Kasongo KINSHASA (Reuters) -Democratic Republic of Congo’s Constitutional Court on Tuesday rejected two legal challenges to the provisional results of a contested presidential election last month and declared President Felix Tshisekedi the final winner. The verdict paves the way for Tshisekedi to serve another five years as head of Africa’s second-largest country and …
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By Karen Brettell NEW YORK (Reuters) – The dollar rose against the euro and yen on Tuesday as traders awaited inflation data on Thursday for clues on when the Federal Reserve is likely to cut rates. In cryptocurrencies, bitcoin dipped but remained near its strongest level since April 2022 as anticipation mounted the Securities and …
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MADRID (Reuters) -Spain’s High Court has ended its investigation into Equatorial Guinean minister Carmelo Ovono Obiang over the alleged kidnapping and torture of two opposition leaders with Spanish citizenship, it said on Tuesday. Obiang, son of President Teodoro Obiang Nguema, and two other senior Guinean officials were accused of kidnapping four members of the Movement …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez took to the Senate floor on Tuesday to declare his innocence on charges that he used his influence to help a businessman seek an investment from the Qatari government and conspired to act as an unregistered agent for Egypt. “I have never violated the public trust. I have …
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By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) -South Africa and Morocco are at loggerheads over the presidency of the United Nations’ top human rights body ahead of a vote on Wednesday, with the former saying Rabat has committed violations in Western Sahara and has no credibility to lead the body. For only the second time in the …
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By Ahmad Ghaddar, Libby George and Chijioke Ohuocha LONDON/ABUJA (Reuters) – Nigeria’s state oil company NNPC is expected to supply four crude cargoes from its February programme to the $20 billion Dangote refinery, which is poised to begin operations after years of construction delays, three sources with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters. What …
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By Isaac Anyaogu LAGOS (Reuters) – Nigeria on Tuesday destroyed 2.5 tonnes of seized elephant tusks valued at over 9.9 billion naira ($11.2 million) in a push to protect its dwindling elephant population from rampant wildlife traffickers. Over the past three decades, Nigeria’s elephant population has declined drastically from an estimated 1,500 to less than …
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -South Africa’s rand weakened on Tuesday, as dollar gained ahead of a highly anticipated reading on U.S. inflation due later this week. At 1535 GMT, the rand traded at 18.6600 against the dollar, 0.3% lower than its previous close. The dollar was last up around 0.14% at 102.44 against a basket of currencies. …
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MANGINA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) – Authorities in Democratic Republic of Congo have arrested six soldiers who are accused of the indiscriminate killing of four civilians during militia clashes in the east. The clashes took place in the rural district of Mangina, near Beni, on Monday, the army said in a statement on Tuesday. …
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