Bloomberg It’s easy to imagine diesel will die in America. The troubles that started almost two years ago with the emissions scandal at Volkswagen AG just keep rolling on and on. News that General Motors Co. is now confronting a class-action lawsuit over 700,000 diesel trucks adds to the growing sense across the auto industry that the days of diesel …

Bloomberg As OPEC ministers gathered in Vienna to agree a nine-month extension of their oil-supply pact, the man credited with bringing about the landmark deal learned from a news broadcast that he had been fired. The story broke as Algerian Energy Minister Noureddine Boutarfa attended a closed session with counterparts. First came an unconfirmed report from an Algerian TV station, …

DUBAI / Reuters Kuwait’s Agility, one of the largest Gulf logistics companies, said it had agreed to pay $95 million in cash to settle a civil lawsuit accusing it of defrauding the United States military on food supply contracts. It follows the earlier settlement of the parallel criminal portion of the case involving more than $8.6 billion of contracts that …