Super Tankers Doesn’t Seem So Super As Pandemic Fades

Profits of oil tanker owners went from their highest to lowest ever in the course of a year as a historic glut reversed, but the industry’s fundamentals are set to improve, says an article published in The Wall Street Journal.

Crude demand during pandemic

A year ago, this industry’s ship came in. Then it just sat there.

As the world went into lockdown with planes grounded and cars parked in driveways, demand for crude oil plunged even as it kept bubbling up out of the ground. That was devastating...

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Fail of Human Rights In The Pandemic Results

Authoritarian regimes had imposed drastic curbs on rights and freedoms and had used the virus as a pretext to restrict free speech and stifle dissent, says an article published in The Guardian.

UN Secretary General’s Thoughts

The world is facing a “pandemic of human rights abuses”, the UN secretary general António Guterres has said.

Writing exclusively in the Guardian, Guterres said the Covid-19 pandemic had rolled back years of progress on human rights, and that abuses had “thrived because...

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