The United Arab Emirates says it is exiting the OPEC+ oil cartel, which is le...
The UAE has long been dissatisfied with OPEC's production quotas and curbs on output.
“But its fallout with Saudi Arabia over the conflict in Yemen and other regional issues appears to have accelerated its exit from the Saudi-led oil cartel.”
OPEC, which stands for the organization of the petroleum exporting countries, will now have just 11 states as members after the UAE's exit. The group has lost members' dates before, including Qatar and Angola in past years. Oil exports from the Gulf have been disrupted by the US Israeli war on Iran and Iran's closure of the Strait of Hermuz.
The UAE now produces roughly 1.9 million barrels of oil a day, according to research from Kepler, about 40% less than before the war.
A. Abat-Rawi and Pernus Dubai. The Iran war is one of several points of contention between President Trump and British Prime Minister Kierstarmer. King Charles III is now in Washington. He will be doing some fence mending in his visit to the White House. Welcome today with pump and pageantry. And President Trump is using this occasion to tout shared values.
“Let us remember what has made our countries the two most exceptional nations.”
The world has ever known. And together, let us go forward with even stronger resolve to carry on our sacred devotion, to liberty and to the traditions of excellence that have been our shared gift. The Royal Visit coinciding with a 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. King Charles is scheduled to address the joint meeting of Congress later this afternoon.
Texas lawmakers are holding a second day of hearings as they continue to look for answers about camp mystic.
Twenty people, including campers and counselors died at the camp last July. Kaylee Hout with Member Sation KUT has more. Investigators told Texas State lawmakers that camp mystic exhibited a complacent attitude towards flooding prior to last July's deadly storms.
“Casey Garrett, who's conducted more than 140 witness interviews as part of the investigation,”
says they can't feel the adequately trained its college age counselors on how to respond in an emergency situation, such as a flash flood. Every single person that I've spoken with that are former counselors, current counselors.
There was never any real training.
There were never drills, no drills of any kind. While makers hear more testimony about camp mystic today, that's Kaylee Hunt reporting. It's NPR News. The Federal Reserve is meeting Wednesday as the central bank prepares for a transition in leadership. Fed chair Jerome Powell's term ends May 15 after returning to office President Trump frequently criticized Powell.
His first term Fed chair nominee for resisting calls to lower interest rates in the second term. Powell was under federal investigation over high renovation project costs. Republican Senator Tom Tillis warned that was a threat to the Fed's independence and threatened to block Kevin Worsh's nomination as the next Fed chair Friday. The DOJ said he would drop the probe in two days later till a set he would back wash.
The Trump administration is seeking to roll back protections for transgender people who are homeless. NPR's Jennifer Ludm reports a proposed rule would force some shelters to deny access. For a decade, the Department of Housing and Urban Development has offered services regardless of people's gender identity. But a proposed rule would strike those words along with sexual orientation from all HUD programs and replace them with sex defined as male or female. The move follows an executive order from President Trump on quote gender ideology extremism.
HUD says women's safety is at risk if they're in a shelter with biological males who identify as women. The agency's proposal threatens to withhold funding from providers who don't comply. Critics point out that LGBTQ people are at higher risk for homelessness and say the rule would leave more of them without housing. Jennifer Ludm and Pierre News, Washington. I'm Lakshmi Singh, NPR News.
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