MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - At least person was killed and 15 were injured when a pipeline exploded in the central Mexican state of Puebla, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Sunday. Lopez Obrador said on Twitter that the blaze at the pipeline was under control and that civil protection authorities were at the scene working with the local authorities. (Reporting by Dave Graham)
By Khalid Abdelaziz KHARTOUM (Reuters) - A senior U.N. official discussed mediation options and possible next steps for Sudan with its ousted prime minister on Sunday, a day after hundreds of thousands of protesters hit the streets to demand an end to military rule. The large outpouring of popular dissent posed the biggest challenge to General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan since he toppled Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok s cabinet on Monday and arrested key politicians. The streets were largely calm on Sunday. We discussed options for mediation and the way forward for Sudan. I will continue these efforts with other Sudanese stakeholders, Volker Perthes. the U.N. Special Representative for Sudan, said in a Twitter post. Perthes said Hamdok was at his residence where he remains well but under house arrest . Mediation efforts by the international community and within Sudan had been announced before Saturday s protests, with no outcome reported. Hamdok has demanded the release of detainees and a re
By Gessika Thomas and Brian Ellsworth PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Desperate to have her infant son Pierre admitted to hospital to treat his anemia and diarrhea, Mirlande Cherie set out two weeks ago on an odyssey to find a medical facility that had not already been shuttered by Haiti s fuel shortages. Cherie rode on the back of a motorcycle with Pierre in her arms as one hospital after another in the capital Port-au-Prince told her they did not have enough diesel to run generators that ensure electricity in the Caribbean nation. On Wednesday, she finally arrived at the La Paix University Hospital, where only the pediatric ward was operating. Fuel remains scarce as a coalition of gangs blocks access to fuel terminals to demand the resignation of Prime Minister Ariel Henry, signaling the growing power of criminal organizations that this month kidnapped 17 U.S. and Canadian missionaries. I left my house on Oct. 14 to make the rounds of several public hospitals, said Cherie, whose son first
By Andrea Shalal and Jeff Mason ROME (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden on Saturday will urge major G20 energy producing countries with spare capacity to boost production to ensure a stronger global economic recovery, a senior administration official said ahead of a summit. Biden and other leaders from the Group of 20 richest countries, meeting in Rome, are slated to discuss efforts to end the COVID-19 pandemic and are also expected to endorse an agreement on establishing a new global minimum corporate tax. But members are divided on other issues. With oil and gas prices surging, some energy-producing countries such as Russia and Saudi Arabia have not boosted output enough to satisfy countries that are largely energy consumers and worry about energy shortages and inflation. French President Emmanuel Macron echoed those concerns in an interview https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/macron-says-stability-needed-energy-prices-avoid-supply-breakdown-ft-2021-10-29 with the Financial Time
By Alexandra Valencia QUITO (Reuters) - Ecuador s largest indigenous group will temporarily suspended protests against fuel price rises, it said on Thursday, after conservative President Guillermo Lasso offered to meet with leaders in two weeks. Indigenous demonstrators protested this week against Lasso s increase of the price of gasoline extra, a cheaper gasoline that is Ecuador s most-used fuel, to a fixed $2.55 a gallon, and diesel to $1.90 a gallon. The protesters argue the increased cost falls unfairly on regular citizens already struggling economically because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Lasso, a conservative ex-banker who took office in May, was under pressure from unions and others to freeze incremental gasoline price increases begun by his predecessor last year. We are going to return to our homes, said Ecuador Confederation of Indigenous Nations president Leonidas Iza from the central province of Chimborazo, adding protests are not over. Presidential spokesman Carlos Jijon said