TOKYO (Reuters) - Most of the fuel left on a Japanese bulk carrier that has leaked an estimated 1,000 tonnes of oil off the Mauritius coast has been pumped off, ship owner Nagashiki Shipping said on Wednesday.

Mauritian Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth said on Tuesday that the MV Wakashio was still holding 2,000 tonnes of oil and was expected to break up, raising concern of a major ecological disaster.

“I heard the collection is almost over, but it is hard to tell if there

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon has 32,000 tonnes of flour in addition to 110,000 tonnes that has arrived or will arrive in the coming two weeks, the economy minister said on Wednesday.

“This means we have enough for four months,” Raoul Nehme said in a tweet.

The

KUANTAN, Malaysia (Reuters) - Some skin, eggs and tissue samples are all that remain of Malaysia’s last rhino, Iman, who died last November after years of failed breeding attempts.

Now scientists are pinning their hopes on experimental stem cell technology to bring back the Malaysian variant of the Sumatran rhinoceros, making use of cells from Iman and two other dead rhinos.

“I’m very confident,” molecular biologist Muhammad Lokman Md Isa told Reuters in his laboratory at the International Islamic University of Malaysia.

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BEIJING (Reuters) - China said on Wednesday that U.S. Health Secretary Alex Azar has performed the “worst in the world” in controlling the novel coronavirus, rejecting criticism of China made by Azar during a three-day trip to Taiwan this week.

Azar attacked China’s response to the coronavirus pandemic on Tuesday saying that if such an outbreak had emerged in Taiwan or the United States it could have been “snuffed out easily”.

Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian told a regular briefing the epidemic in

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OSLO, Aug 12 (Reuters) - Norwegian video conferencing firm Pexip Holding ASA said on Wednesday its revenue nearly doubled in the second quarter and adjusted earnings surged as more companies embraced home-office technologies during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Shares of Pexip, which competes with the likes of Zoom and BlueJeans, jumped 5.7% in early trade to 92.9 crowns.

The company, which listed on the stock market three months ago, said April-

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia said on Wednesday the first batch of its Covid-19 vaccine would be ready for some medics within two weeks and rejected as “

(Reuters) - European stocks rallied on Wednesday as a billion-dollar takeover offer for Swiss firm Sunrise Communications boosted the telecom sector and investors looked past a collapse in Britain’s quarterly economic output to bet on a stimulus-driven recovery.

The pan-European STOXX 600 closed 1.1% higher, marking its fourth consecutive day of

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Aug 12 (Reuters) - New Zealand stocks registered their worst close in a month on Wednesday after the country reported its first set of coronavirus cases in 102 days, while losses among miners and gold stocks weighed down on the Australian bourse.

The New Zealand benchmark S&P/NZX 50 index fell 1.3% to 1,491.91 at the end of trade, hurt by losses across almost all sectors.

Prime Minister Jacinda

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Chinese tech giant Tencent Holding ( 0700.HK ) is making forays into fund advisory services, vying for a share of the potentially lucrative market with rival Alibaba Group Holding Ltd ( BABA.N )( 9988.HK ), which entered the business just months ago.