CARACAS, Oct 27 (Reuters) - Venezuela has suspended energy-development cooperation with Trinidad and Tobago, including joint natural gas projects in the works, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said on Monday. Maduro said in a TV broadcast that the oil ministry and state-run oil producer PDVSA's board sent a proposal to suspend a cooperation agreement with Trinidad to his desk. I have...

* Explosion at Polymetals-owned Endeavor mine * Polymetals shares on trading halt * Mining operations at Endeavor suspended (Adds Polymetals comments in paragraphs 4-6) SYDNEY, Oct 28 (Reuters) - Two workers were killed and another injured in an explosion at the recently reopened Polymetals Resources-owned Endeavor silver, zinc and lead mine in Australia on Tuesday, forcing the temporary suspension of...

TOKYO (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump and Japan Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Tuesday signed a framework agreement for securing the supply of critical minerals and rare earths through mining and processing, the White House said in a statement. The countries plan to cooperate through use of economic policy tools and coordinated investment to accelerate development of diversified, liquid, and...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -Amazon is planning to cut as many as 30,000 corporate jobs beginning on Tuesday, as the company pares expenses and compensates for overhiring during the peak demand of the pandemic, according to three people familiar with the matter. The figure represents a small percentage of Amazon's 1.55 million total employees, but nearly 10% of its roughly 350,000...