Egypt says Doha deal unlikely this year Arab News | Dominic Evans | Reuters | DAVOS: World trade talks are unlikely to be completed this year because the economic slowdown has raised Western fears about the impact of trade liberalization, Egypt's Trade Minister said on Wednesday. | The G20 has calle...
Maldives Ban Fishing of Sharks The New York Times | PARIS — The Maldives will make its territorial waters into a shark sanctuary, a government official said Tuesday, lending momentum to efforts to protect the fish at a United Nations endangered species conference that begins this week. | “We’ve decided to go ahead with a shark fishing ban,” Ibrahim Didi, the fisheries and a...
Shell aims for ‘New Nigeria’ at Qatar’s $19bn plant Business Day Online ...to bolster output | Anglo Dutch oil giant Shell is aiming to make up for its mounting losses in Nigeria via a $19 billion gas to liquids plant in the sandy desert of Qatar in the Middle East, according to Bloomberg news. Shell spent $19 billion, triple the original estimate, to build the world’s largest gas-to-liquids plant in Qatar and now, i...
