18+ hour, 46+ min ago  (234+ words) The Gulf of America is one of our highest-value basins, and we are actively shaping our portfolio to ensure our Upstream business continues to be resilient and increasingly competitive," said Peter Costello, Shell's Upstream President. We remain focused on sustaining…...

55+ min ago  (790+ words) The EU's top court upheld Thursday a record 4. 1 billion euro ($4. 7 billion) fine the bloc slapped on Google for anti-competitive practices related to its Android operating system. The European Court of Justice dismissed the US tech giant's second attempt to overturn…...

1+ hour, 4+ min ago  (519+ words) Hundreds of people were besieging Lidl supermarkets in and around Paris Thursday, with scuffles and shouting matches breaking out as residents scrambled to get their hands on bargain air-cooling units before the next heatwave hits the French capital. With few…...

1+ hour, 28+ min ago  (361+ words) South African police arrested more than 900 people during nationwide anti-immigration protests on Tuesday, with most demonstrations remaining peaceful despite isolated incidents of violence and looting, authorities said on Wednesday. Addressing a media briefing, Deputy National Police Commissioner Tebello Mosikili, who…...

1+ hour, 1+ min ago  (529+ words) Iran's chief negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf called on Thursday for massive turnout at Ali Khamenei's funeral to avenge the supreme leader's death in US-Israeli strikes at the start of the war. "I invite all the Iranian people" to write a…...

1+ hour, 14+ min ago  (720+ words) Israel on Thursday marked the 1, 000th day since Hamas's October 7, 2023 attack with calls for a state commission of inquiry into the unprecedented assault that triggered the war in Gaza. A series of sombre commemorations are due to be held across the…...

56+ min ago  (331+ words) A passenger bus carrying 78 people overturned in southwest South Africa on Thursday, killing at least 16 people, including children, police and transport officials said. South Africa has one of the continent's most developed road networks but continues to struggle with a…...

1+ hour, 6+ min ago  (418+ words) Ukrainian state authorities were behind the 2022 sabotage of the Nord Stream gas pipeline linking Russia with Europe, German prosecutors charged Thursday, a move that complicates close relations between Kyiv and its key military backer Berlin. The explosives attack in the…...

1+ hour, 13+ min ago  (449+ words) More research is needed to determine whether bones buried beneath a Dutch church belong to d'Artagnan, the swashbuckling French soldier who inspired the novel The Three Musketeers, officials said Thursday. After months of speculation and media reports of bungled investigations,…...

1+ hour, 37+ min ago  (631+ words) The Vatican excommunicated six bishops from the ultraconservative Society of St Pius X on Thursday, while warning that any lay believers who "formally adhere" to the breakaway Catholic group would suffer the same fate. The Vatican decree comes a day…...