Bloomberg A Nigerian high court ordered the government to renew Shell Petroleum Development Co.’s operating license for the Oil Mineral Lease 11 field, which was withdrawn earlier this year, Lagos-based Punch newspaper reported. The Federal High Court in Abuja, ordered the license be renewed for maximum 20 years, and not 30 years the oil major was seeking, the newspaper reported. ...

Bloomberg North Korea launched more missiles on Saturday, the latest in the most prolific series of tests since US President Donald Trump took office. South Korea’s Defense Ministry said two ballistic missiles were launched from south Hamgyong, travelling about 380 kilometres and reaching a maximum altitude of 97 kilometres. They landed outside Japan’s exclusive economic zone, Japan’s Coast Guard said ...

Bloomberg US sanctions against Venezuela are making successful talks with the opposition impossible, said a key ally of President Nicolas Maduro, demanding that President Donald Trump immediately act to drop them. “The stone in the way of any negotiation is sanctions,” Tarek William Saab, Venezuela’s public prosecutor, said in a rare interview at the Public Prosecutor headquarters office in downtown ...