NEW YORK/SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A shipping joint venture between Venezuela and China has fallen apart in the wake of U.S. sanctions, resulting in the South American nation losing three supertankers at a time when foreign shippers are reluctant to carry its oil, court documents show.

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Mauritian volunteers fished dead eels from oily waters on Tuesday as they tried to clean up damage to the Indian Ocean island’s most pristine beaches after a Japanese bulk carrier leaked an estimated 1,000 tonnes of oil.

The ship, MV Wakashio, owned by Nagashiki Shipping and operated by Mitsui OSK Lines Ltd, struck a coral reef on Mauritius’ southeast coast on July 25 and began leaking oil last week, raising fears of a major ecological crisis.

Activists told Reuters that dead

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Johnson & Johnson ( JNJ.N ) could produce 1 billion doses of its potential COVID-19 vaccine next year if it proves successful and would consider injecting healthy volunteers with the novel coronavirus if there are not enough patients for final trials, a company executive said.

NAIROBI/GAROWE (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Somalia’s parliament has sparked outrage by replacing long-awaited legislation to protect women and girls from violence with a new bill permitting child and forced marriage.

The east African nation has high rates of child marriage and violence against women, including rape and female genital mutilation (FGM). The United Nations says 45% of women are married before 18, while 98% have undergone FGM.

In 2018, Somalia’s cabinet approved the landmark

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia’s Top Glove Corp ( TPGC.KL ) is working rapidly to resolve this month issues that prompted a U.S. Customs import ban, including improving its migrant workers’ living conditions, its managing director said on Tuesday.

In engagements with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) last week, the world

PARIS (Reuters) - The renewed spread of coronavirus in France could become harder to control without a collective effort to stop a rise in the infection rate, its prime minister said on Tuesday.

The public was becoming careless, Jean Castex warned, speaking shortly before health authorities said new daily infections were up by 1,

Aug 11 (Reuters) - Canada’s main stock index rose on Tuesday as housing starts gained in July, bolstering hopes of an economic rebound from the COVID-19 pandemic.

* Canadian housing starts climbed 15.8% in July as groundbreaking increased on multiple-unit and single-family urban homes.

* The Canadian dollar rose against its broadly weaker U.S. counterpart on Tuesday as the prospect of U.S. economic stimulus bolstered oil prices and domestic data showed an unexpected jump in

BENGALURU (Reuters) - India’s supply of antiviral drug remdesivir and generic equivalents is stabilising after shortages of the vital COVID-19 medicine at hospitals, according to a top executive at one of the country’s big drugmakers, Cipla Ltd.

(Reuters) - Facebook Inc ( FB.O ) on Tuesday unveiled a new policy that would prevent U.S. publishers with political ties from running ads presented as news articles, as the country gears up for the presidential election in November.

Under the new policy, publishers with any political connections will still be allowed to register as a news page but the company will implement some restrictions. ( bit.ly/3gNPf01 )

“The news pages with these affiliations will not be eligible for inclusion in