Stories for February 2022

Tuesday, February 22nd 2022 - 09:57 UTC
Middle East OPEC members with no plans to increase output: “caution” is the name of the game

As crude prices steadily climb to US$ 100 a barrel, Middle Eastern OPEC producers have no plans to increase production beyond their OPEC+ quotas, a gathering of ministers this weekend has made clear. The energy minister of the biggest oil producer in the cartel, Saudi Arabia, said that the pandemic had taught oil-producing nations one thing, and that was caution, writes Irina Slav for oilprice.com.
Tuesday, February 22nd 2022 - 09:55 UTC
Russia recognizes independence of Ukrainian rogue provinces

Russia's invasion of Ukraine has officially started after President Vladimir Putin signed a decree recognizing the independence of the rogue provinces of Donetsk and Lugansk.
Tuesday, February 22nd 2022 - 09:50 UTC
COVID-19 starts decline in Chile, minister says

Chile's Health Minister Enrique Paris Monday said contagion of COVID-19 had already rached its peak Feb. 11 when 38,446 new cases were recorded, but it has been dropping ever since.
Tuesday, February 22nd 2022 - 09:45 UTC
Abortion legal in Colombia until week 24

Colombia's Constitutional Court Monday ruled to decriminalize medical procedures to terminate pregnancies up to the 24th week. In other words, there will be no criminal consequences for such actions until the sixth month.
Tuesday, February 22nd 2022 - 09:40 UTC
French Group will recover port of Beirut devastated by a massive explosion in 2020

French Group CMA-CGM, a world leader in shipping and logistic has won the concession bid to manage, operate and maintain the Port of Beirut’s container terminal for a 10-year period starting next month.
Tuesday, February 22nd 2022 - 09:39 UTC
New WHO/ILO guide urges greater safeguards to protect health workers

The World Health Organization (WHO) and The International Labour Organization (ILO) have published a new guide on developing and implementing stronger occupational health and safety programs for health workers, as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to exert great pressure on them.
Tuesday, February 22nd 2022 - 09:39 UTC
The plight of the Ilois: Victims of the Cold War and the War on Terror

“The object of the exercise is to get some rocks which will remain ours... There will be no indigenous population except seagulls,” wrote Sir Paul Gore-Booth, a senior official at the British Foreign Office, as the plan to expel the 2,000 Chagos Islanders from their homes was taking shape in 1966. “We must surely be very tough about this.”
Tuesday, February 22nd 2022 - 09:35 UTC
UN chief calls Russia's decision “a violation of territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine”

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on Monday called out Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to recognize certain areas of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine as independent as “a violation of the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine” in a statement read by his spokesperson.
Tuesday, February 22nd 2022 - 09:08 UTC
Bolivia signs judicial protocol with UN mission

Bolivian authorities and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Monday signed a “protocol for the observation of judicial processes,” which is also to apply to the cases against former president Jeanine Áñez, it was announced.
Monday, February 21st 2022 - 20:23 UTC
Biden okay with holding summit with Putin... “in principle”

US President Joseph Biden Monday said he would agree to hold a meeting with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, who has also accepted the proposal submitted by France's leader Emmanuel Macron as the last diplomatic efforts are undertaken to avoid an all-out war over Ukraine.