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...It said that the additional oil from the US, Brazil, Guyana and Canada alone, which have seen record production levels, “could come close to meeting world oil demand growth for this year and next”....
...China, Ecuador’s largest creditor, has closed its embassy and consulates until further notice. Jake Sullivan, the US national security adviser, on Wednesday condemned the violence in a post on X....
...The consulate estimates that figure could rise to 10,000 this year....
...The opposition is making the most of a corruption scandal concerning the illegal sale of visas at Polish consulates abroad....
...France already backed Riyadh nearly a year ago, while Brazil this week became the latest country to announce its support for Rome....
...In Brazil, home to more than half-a-million Italians, a Belo Horizonte-based teacher was offered eight postal votes by fellow Brazilian-Italians who acquired their citizenship through ancestry and were not...
...The circumstances suggested some British consulates were issuing visas to people who had no good reason to travel, she added....
...In Brazil, China’s most important economic partner in South America, attitudes have remained fairly steady and they have improved in Israel, a strategic ally in the Middle East....
...The US, along with Brazil and India, leads the world as the biggest source of new coronavirus infections....
...correspondent in Jakarta, Bevins argues that the Indonesian massacres of 1965 were connived in by the US, and became a template for bloody anti-communist repression in other locations including Chile and Brazil...
...In Chengdu, US diplomats left the consulate after a Monday deadline....
...Brazil has the world’s second-worst infection rate and death toll....
...In the news China says US has ordered it to close Houston consulate The move by the US once again ratchets up tensions between Washington and Beijing. it sent shares in China sharply lower but, meanwhile...
...Seade is one of eight candidates to succeed Brazil’s Roberto Azevêdo as director-general of the WTO after he steps down in September....
...This position represents a drop of two places since the index was first released in 2016 and ranks Britain behind Italy, Spain and Brazil....
...(FT) Video of the day The leaders of Brazil and Mexico, Latin America’s two biggest economies, have both been heavily criticised for their laid-back response to the pandemic....
...The murder of the journalist by Saudi agents in the kingdom’s consulate in Istanbul a year ago triggered Riyadh’s biggest diplomatic crisis since the 2001 attacks on the US....
...Meanwhile, a former employee of the British consulate in Hong Kong has claimed Chinese police “tortured” him....
...(FT) Hong Kong protests Google said it has disabled more than 200 YouTube channels conducting “co-ordinated influence operations” related to Hong Kong’s protests, while Canada’s consulate suspended travel...
...In the news US evacuates embassy staff from Iraq The US is evacuating all but emergency staff from its embassy and consulate in Iraq, as tensions rise between the US and Iraq’s neighbour Iran in the volatile...
...Russia is in demographic decline and is heavily dependent on energy exports; India and Brazil, each with $2tn economies, remain developing countries....
...Meanwhile, Mr Bolsonaro, a far-right firebrand, has taken power in Brazil with a similar message....
...photo, released by the Saudi Press Agency, shows Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, right, shaking hands with Salah Khashoggi, a son of Jamal Khashoggi, the journalist who was killed in the Saudi consulate...
...Mr Maduro has also said he will close Venezuela’s embassy and consulates in the US and recall all staff....
...There has been widespread outrage at the assassination of a critic of the Saudi regime and Riyadh’s attempts to cover up the murder, which was carried out by a hit squad in its consulate in Turkey....
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