LONDON/TORONTO (Reuters) – Vale SA has hired investment banks Barclays Plc and Standard Chartered to sell its Mozambique metallurgical and thermal coal mine and port project, three sources said on Thursday, as the Brazilian miner works to become carbon neutral by 2050.The logo of the Brucutu mine owned by Brazilian mining company Vale SA is seen in Sao Goncalo do […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Joe Biden unveiled sweeping measures to battle COVID-19 on his first full day in office on Thursday, with his chief medical adviser, Anthony Fauci, praising his new boss’ willingness to “let the science speak” in contrast to the Trump administration. Biden said he was stepping up the federal response to the virus including by taking steps […]

(Reuters) – A U.S. federal judge on Thursday rejected Parler’s demand that Amazon.com Inc restore web hosting services for the social media platform, which Amazon had cut off following the Jan. 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol.FILE PHOTO: A screengrab of Parler.com website and Parler CEO John Matze’s message on January 16, 2021, reading “Hello world, is this thing on?”, […]

SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Twitter has locked the account of China’s U.S. embassy for a tweet that defended China’s policy towards Muslim Uighurs in Xinjiang, which the U.S. social media platform said violated its stand against “dehumanizing” people. China’s Foreign Ministry said on Thursday that it was confused by the move and that it was the embassy’s responsibility to call out […]

FILE PHOTO: A worker cleans up the West Front of the U.S. Capitol and dismantles the inaugural platform and seating area the day after President Joe Biden was inaugurated as the 46th president of the United States on Capitol Hill in Washington, US, January 21, 2021. REUTERS/Jim Bourg/File PhotoWASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives is planning to bring […]

FILE PHOTO: An Exxon gas station is seen in Houston, Texas, U.S., April 30, 2019. REUTERS/Loren Elliott/File PhotoLONDON (Reuters) – Private equity fund HitecVision and its British unit Neo have entered exclusive negotiations to buy Exxon’s upstream assets in the central and northern North Sea, Hitec said on Thursday. Bids for ExxonMobil’s British North Sea oil and gas fields, which […]

FILE PHOTO: India’s flag is seen through a 3D printed Facebook logo in this illustration picture, April 8, 2019. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File photoNEW DELHI/BENGALURU (Reuters) – Facebook executives will field questions from an Indian parliamentary panel on Thursday about the changes to WhatsApp’s privacy, a source said, days after the messaging platform was asked by the country’s technology ministry to withdraw […]

FILE PHOTO: A man smokes in front of a China Unicom store in Beijing, China August 11, 2020. Picture taken August 11, 2020. REUTERS/Tingshu Wang/File Photo(Reuters) – Telecom companies China Unicom Hong Kong Ltd, China Mobile and China Telecom Corp said on Thursday they had requested the New York Stock Exchange to review its decision to delist their American depositary […]