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India inspired her to serve shantytown

  Bloomberg Portia Lekgoto faced a dilemma: how to take her three-year-old daughter to a doctor without missing a day of work while waiting in line at one of only two public health clinics in the South African shantytown of Diepsloot. She decided to take her daughter to Quali Health, a new private clinic that a friend had told her ...

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Trump approves Keystone XL pipeline

  Washington / AP President Donald Trump greenlighted the long-delayed Keystone XL pipeline, declaring it a “great day for American jobs” and siding with energy advocates over environmental groups in a heated debate over climate change. The presidential permit comes nearly a decade after Calgary-based TransCanada applied to build the $8 billion pipeline, which will snake from Canada through the ...

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Oil drops for third week on US supplies

Bloomberg Crude oil had its third weekly loss in a month as OPEC and its allies prepared to meet for a review of their production cuts, while swelling US stockpiles indicated the measures aren’t working yet. Futures slipped 1.7 percent this week in New York. US crude output continued to expand along with inventories last week, data from the government ...

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