Brenton Brown

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Asian refiners are paying the highest premiums for Middle East and Russian crude oil in about a year, due to firm demand and more costly imports from the West, industry sources said. High prices could prompt refiners to draw down inventories, tightening supply buffers even as the...

BERLIN (Reuters) - European Union approval of Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine will be delayed because a June 10 deadline to submit data was missed, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters, diminishing the shot’s prospects in the EU’s pandemic response. One of the sources, a German government official,...

The G7 summit will be remembered as an “unforgivable moral failure” after a promise to “vaccinate the world” was broken, Gordon Brown says.“Millions of people will go unvaccinated and thousands of people, I’m afraid, will die,” the former prime minister said, after the gathering failed to agree a financing package.On the eve of the summit, more than 100 former world leaders called for the G7 to pay two-thirds of the $66bn cost of a comprehensive global vaccination programme.But the UK failed to even put it on the agenda, with the G7 instead agreeing merely to donate only 870 million...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — President Joe Biden and Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan have known each other for years, but their meeting Monday will be their first as heads of state. And it comes at a particularly tense moment for relations between their two countries. The list of disagreements is...