Pandemic

NRG Matters: India needs $250bn to meet 2030 renewable targets; Abengoa starts commissioning of Jubail desalination plant RIYADH: On a macro level, a report by Moody’s said India needs up to $250 billion investments to be able to meet its 2030 renewable targets, with TotalEnergies teaming up with Adani Enterprises…

Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.comJune 12 (Reuters) - "A Strange Loop," the story of a Black gay man and his mental struggles as a playwright, won the Tony award on Sunday for best new musical as Broadway honored its first season since the long pandemic shutdown. "The…

Not ready to say goodbye! Every year TV series inevitably come to an end, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy to let our favorite characters go. After a rocky few years of facing filming delays and premiere pushbacks amid the 2020 and 2021 COVID-19 pandemic, the 2022 television slate came…

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Jacqueline Powell and her fourth grade classmates toiled over pencil and paper to write a letter in Spanish about what they did in class this year. Powell explained the assignment in perfect Spanish before struggling to translate the words to end her sentence. The 10-year-old charter…

NEW YORK — They Might Be Giants singer-guitarist John Flansburgh was seriously injured in a car crash this week while being driven home from the alternative rock band’s first gig on a pandemic-delayed tour, prompting the postponement of shows at least until late August. Meanwhile, the driver of the car…

Boracay is among the finest of the 7,641 Philippine islands and, for a long time, was one of the least known, its four square miles a closely guarded secret. Sequestered in the center of the archipelago, the island’s pristine beaches and gin-clear waters were the refuge of the handful of…

Since the relaxing of Covid-19 restrictions, numerous pasar malams have popped up islandwide, giving us some sense of normalcy after two years of the pandemic.  If you've yet to visit one and are feeling a little FOMO (fear of missing out), fret not as there are a slew of new pasar…

The Covid-19 pandemic changed how we live life and do business. Before the pandemic, we were shoulder to shoulder and face to face. There were no masks, and social distancing wasn’t a thing. Then, the pandemic hit, and everything changed. We were once a hustling and bustling culture that did…

KAMPALA, Uganda—In Cameroon, thousands of truckers spend weeks stranded at highways and border crossings due to lack of diesel. In Kenya, drivers are lining up overnight to fill their tanks. In Nigeria, airlines have threatened to ground all domestic flights as they scramble for expensive jet fuel. Across Africa, surging…

Meet Apollo, the god of music Hades is one of my favorite games of all time. It was my go-to game at the start of the pandemic, and after all was said and done I think I put close to 400 hours into that bad boy. I have played and replayed Hades…