India's federal fiscal deficit during April-September, the first half of the current fiscal year, stood at 5.27 trillion rupees ($70.4 billion) or 35% of the budgeted target for the whole year, government data showed on Friday.
Russian gas giant Gazprom on Friday said it had reached its target level in Russian gas storage, but would continue injecting gas into domestic storage until Nov. 8.
Executives at Brazil's Petrobras on Fridayeffectively brushed aside suggestions that the company was too profitable and should lower its fuel prices, telling analysts that it had no plans subsidize consumers at the pump.
Finance and health ministers from the world's 20 biggest economies (G20) said on Friday they would take steps to ensure 70% of the world's population is vaccinated against COVID-19 by mid-2022 and created a task force to fight future pandemics.
Poland's total number of COVID-19 cases since the start of the pandemic passed 3 million on Friday, health ministry data showed, with daily cases hitting their highest in the fourth wave as a spike in infections gathers pace.