Doha / AFP Energy giants Saudi Arabia and Russia agreed on Tuesday to freeze oil output to try to stabilise the market if other major producers do the same, Qatar’s oil minister said. The Saudi and Russian oil ministers, along with their Venezuelan and Qatari counterparts, “agreed to freeze the production at (the) January level provided that other major producers …

AFP Two recent oil pipeline spills in Peru’s part of the Amazon hit areas rich in wildlife and it will take them a year to recover, the government said Monday. The spills released a total of 2,000 barrels of petroleum, Energy and Mining Minister Rosa Maria Ortiz said. She and other government officials flew over one of the areas blackened …

Bloomberg When British Prime Minister David Cameron rushed to Paris late on Monday to lobby the French leader over safeguards for London’s banks, the latest in a long line of disputes between the two countries had been five years in the making. French President Francois Hollande is leading a group of euro-area countries unhappy with U.K. demands to shield its …