WASHINGTON: The United States expects to have a sixth round of indirect talks on reviving compliance with the 2015 Iran nuclear deal and probably more, US State Department spokesman Ned Price said on Thursday. The European Union envoy coordinating the talks on Wednesday said he believed a deal would be struck at the next round starting next week, but other senior diplomats
LONDON: Recent reports indicate that Netflix is approaching senior executives in the video game industry about partnering up with the platform to create a subscription-based game service.
In the past, Netflix has licensed some of its in-house productions, including “Stranger Things” and “The Dark Crystal,” to game developers.
Netflix has also produced a wide range of interactive movies, including “Black Mirror: Bandersnatch” and “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs the Reverend,” both of which employed simple game mechanics to allow the viewer to make certain choices about the narratives.
A Netflix gaming subscription will reportedly be similar to Apple’s gaming service, Apple Arcade, which is exclusive to Apple’s iPhones, iPads, Macs and AppleTV. Users pay a monthly fee of $4.99 for access to a library of downloadable games.
RIYADH: Dubai’s state energy firm and Saudi Petromin Corporation have entered a competition with Abu Dhabi’s ADNOC to bid on the first company affiliated with Egyptian army to be offered to investors, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter. This bid will allow the winning company to take joint full ownership of military-owned Wataniya Petroleum, a fuel distribution company with 200 filling stations, with Egypt’s sovereign wealth fund (SFE). The bidding race is expected to be finalized before the end of 2021. Cairo-based investment bank EFG Hermes is advising the wealth fund on the initiative. Due diligence is underway on Wataniya, according to the people who asked to remain anonymous as the negotiations are confidential.
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s Minister of Energy Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman believes it would be premature to talk about potential overheating in the global oil market, Russia s RIA news agency reported on Thursday.
“There will always be a good amount of supply to meet demand, but we’ll have to see demand before you see supply,” the prince said at the St. Petersburg economic forum in Russia.
Earlier this week, the OPEC+ alliance of oil producers led by Saudi Arabia and Russia kept supply on an upward track.
The meeting of OPEC+ ministers one of the shortest on record at 30 minutes saw an agreement reached to stick to plans to increase oil supply by more than 2 million barrels a day by the end of July, noting “ongoing improvement in oil demand as economic recovery continued in most parts of the world as vaccination programs accelerated.”
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On October 23, representatives of the Ministry of Energy held a
round-table discussion with a number of international financial
institutions on further reform of the energy sector in
Uzbekistan.
During the conversation, the participants discussed
recommendations and roadmaps for reforming the electricity, as well
as oil and gas networks. In particular, international experts and
consultants from the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, and
the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development actively
participated in the preparation of these recommendations and
roadmaps.
The participants of the discussion noted that the following