The CEO of energy major Total has announced plans to buy a share in projects aimed at constructing terminals for transferring liquefied natural gas (LNG), led by Russia’s biggest independent gas producer Novatek. Read Full Article at RT.com

China is ramping up its oil drilling initiative in Cuban waters, using cutting-edge technology to reach deposits that Cubans couldn’t touch. Read Full Article at RT.com

The largest banking chain in Turkey, along with the country’s 10,000 online retailers, have started accepting Russia’s Mir cards, according to the CEO of Russia’s national payment system (NSPK), Vladimir Komlev. Read Full Article at RT.com

The Indian Ministry of Home Affairs has announced the suspension of trade across the Line of Control (LoC) in the Jammu and Kashmir regions bordering Pakistan as tensions between the two countries intensify. Read Full Article at RT.com

Russia has banned exports of oil and petroleum products among other goods to Ukraine, as well as blacklisting certain imports from the country in response to Kiev's sanctions against Moscow. Read Full Article at RT.com

Riyadh aims to create a $500 billion mega city possibly funded by the IPO of the nation’s oil giant Saudi Aramco. The project is part of the kingdom’s ‘Vision 2030’ initiative to make the country less reliant on crude exports. Read Full Article at RT.com

Beijing has inked cooperation deals on its multi-trillion-dollar Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) with 17 Arab countries, state-run Xinhua News Agency reported, citing the results of a joint Sino-Arab forum. Read Full Article at RT.com

Cryptocurrency evangelist and outsider US presidential candidate John McAfee has waded into the online crypto-wars, ridiculing computer scientist Craig Wright for claiming to be the elusive Satoshi Nakamoto, creator of bitcoin. Read Full Article at RT.com

The EU has unveiled a wide-ranging list of US imports worth $20 billion which it could target in retaliation for a subsidy battle between rival European and American planemakers, Airbus and Boeing. Read Full Article at RT.com

New research from think tank Eunomix Business & Economics found that South Africa endured one of the worst declines over the past 12 years for a country not at war. Read Full Article at RT.com

Switzerland has become the fourth European country to join China’s ambitious global trade infrastructure project, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Read Full Article at RT.com

One of India's major airlines, Jet Airways, has announced it is temporarily halting flight operations after the carrier failed to secure the “critical interim funding” necessary for the company to remain afloat. Read Full Article at RT.com

Brussels is ready to stand by its companies and launch a WTO case should Washington enact a law allowing US citizens to sue foreign firms doing business in Cuba. Read Full Article at RT.com

Russian aluminum major RUSAL said it is teaming up with US manufacturer Braidy Industries to build a mill in Kentucky. It will invest $200 million and assume a 40 percent ownership stake in the mill in return. Read Full Article at RT.com

Some of France’s richest families have promised to help restore the Notre Dame Cathedral after a devastating fire destroyed much of the historic Paris landmark. Read Full Article at RT.com

The odds of an oil price spike this year are much higher than the prevailing consensus in the market, according to a new report from Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Read Full Article at RT.com

India’s measures to improve the recovery of bad loans and a recapitalization plan equivalent to 1.1 percent of GDP will lower costs for lenders and boost the growth of Asia’s third-largest economy, according to Goldman Sachs. Read Full Article at RT.com

The founder of one of the world’s biggest e-commerce firms, Jack Ma, has defied social media bashing, which followed the Chinese billionaire’s controversial comment on the industry’s severe overtime culture. Read Full Article at RT.com

European refiners are switching to Russian sour grades as US sanctions have shrunk Venezuela’s similar-grade exports, Reuters reports, adding that the Russian sour crude is getting increasingly expensive. Read Full Article at RT.com

Tehran will not wait forever for the European nations to launch the promised payments mechanism aimed at avoiding the US sanctions against the Islamic Republic, Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif has warned. Read Full Article at RT.com