IBT Staff Reporter

The following is a summary of some recent studies on COVID-19.

French police on Monday arrested two activists who occupied a luxury villa in Biarritz, southern France, that they said was linked to Russian President Vladimir Putin's former son-in-law.

Russian spies in spotlight over Ukraine shortcomings

State-run Brazilian oil company Petrobras is close to reaching an agreement to sell to U.S.

Chevron Corp. is preparing to take operating control of its joint ventures in Venezuela if Washington relaxes sanctions on Caracas to boost crude supplies after banning Russia's oil imports, according to three people familiar with the situation.

Germany's greenhouse gas emissions rose by just under 5% last year compared with 2020, the federal environment agency UBA said in its annual report seen by Reuters on Monday, as Europe's largest economy recovered from the coronavirus pandemic.

Residents of Odessa formed a human chain on Monday to carry heavy sandbags from the beach onto waiting trucks as the Ukrainian port city frantically built defences against advancing Russian troops.

Germany, Turkey call for immediate ceasefire in Ukraine

Polina Okhrytkova, 19, and Marta Pysanko, 18, first traded their arts studies at Kyiv University for building Molotov cocktails to help fend off the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

As Russia's invasion of Ukraine disrupts the global economy and drives up oil, gold and industrial metal prices, investors are embracing Canada's commodity-linked stock market to protect their portfolios from the impact of supply shortages and soaring inflation.

Britain's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Bank of England are talking to the London Metal Exchange about the resumption of a fair and orderly market in nickel, the FCA said on Monday.

Tears, fear and fury in Kyiv after Russian attacks

Ukraine urges Russia's 'immediate' expulsion from Council of Europe

Russian gas will continue to flow to Europe through Ukraine as long as the operators of Ukraine's gas networks are able to function, the head of Ukraine's state energy firm Naftogaz told Reuters on Monday.

Ukraine economy could collapse if war drags on: IMF

Discovery Inc Chief Financial Officer Gunnar Wiedenfels on Monday provided the most concrete details to date about the media company's plans to combine its Discovery+ streaming service with HBO Max once the acquisition of WarnerMedia closes.

Southern Copper Corp's Cuajone mine in Peru has suspended operations since Feb.

A Nigerian court has stopped Shell Plc from selling any assets in Nigeria until a decision is reached on the company's appeal of a nearly $2 billion penalty for an alleged oil spill.

Topping the Eurovision leaderboard is a dream for many international music acts but for Ukraine's Kalush Orchestra, the glitz of the song contest seems a long way off.

Riots in Corsica over jailed nationalist leave dozens injured

Ukraine's Zelensky to address full US Congress

U.S. consumers upped their outlook for where inflation will be a year from now and in three years time, and they expect to spend substantially more on food, gas and rent in the next 12 months, according to a survey released on Monday by the New York Federal Reserve.

British bank Barclays said on Monday it had suspended the sales and issuance of two exchange-traded notes (ETNs) with combined assets of about $1 billion - one linked to crude oil and another to a gauge of market volatility - due to capacity constraints, in a move that some investors said could spur big price swings in the products.

Ukraine seeks to protect cultural sites from Russian guns

Mathematician Sergio Fajardo, chosen to represent Colombia's center-left coalition at presidential elections in May, will need to present concrete policies against poverty and graft to defeat foes in a bitterly polarized nation, analysts said.

Proxy adviser Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) on Monday recommended that Huntsman Corp investors elect two of activist investment firm Starboard Value's four director nominees to the chemical maker's 10-member board.

A London tribunal on Monday ruled that a 2018 Bermuda law that bans same-sex marriage in the British overseas territory is constitutional, a departure from the broad trend towards legalisation of gay marriage in the West.

Fleeing from Kyiv was an unusual way to get to know each other better for Russian Mikhail Liublin and his Ukrainian girlfriend who started dating only weeks before war broke out in Ukraine.

Citigroup Inc said on Monday it would expand its withdrawal from Russia and not take on new clients as it further cuts its exposure to the country, raising the prospect it could take billions of dollars in losses.