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Four people play cards at a table with flashlights, while a fire burns in the background on a dark street.
Energy
Cuba runs out of oil
8:17
A street vendor with a cart full of assorted goods, including snacks and cigarettes, stands on a waterfront promenade as people sit along a low wall by the sea. The street is lined with people and buildings in the background, while two motorbikes with headlights on pass by on the road.
Energy
Cuba’s crisis, as told through Cuban voices
8:04
A person standing on a dock saluting a large orange cargo ship named 'Ocean Mariner' as it passes by on the water.
Business, Economics and Jobs
Cuba’s private businesses navigate a narrow opening
8:08
Energy
The hidden black market fueling Mexico’s cars — and its cartels
5:22
Conflict & Justice
How the Russian economy is faring as new sanctions hit 
4:58
Former Exxon Mobil Corp. CEO Rex Tillerson was an outspoken critic of the rule designed to prevent bribery.
Economics
In a victory for the oil industry, Congress makes it easier to pay bribes for drilling rights
A worker pumps gas into a vehicle at a gas station, which belongs to Venezuela's state oil company PDVSA, in Caracas, on Feb. 12, 2016.
Economics
Venezuela’s 6,000-percent gas price hike has a global origin
A customer holds a nozzle to fill up his tank in a gasoline station in Nice December 5, 2014.
Economics
How do low oil prices affect life where you live?
A man works on the engine of his car, as motorists wait for fuel at a gas station in Abuja.
Business
In oil-rich Nigeria, just getting a tank of gas is an all-day endeavor
Folorunsho Alakija
Economics
Sorry, Oprah. You’re not No. 1 anymore.
Opponents of the Keystone XL oil pipeline rally in front of the White House on February 24, 2015, the day President Barack Obama vetoed a bill circumventing administration review of the project and mandating its construction.
Environment
President Obama’s veto isn’t the end of the Keystone XL story
A general view of the Baiji oil refinery, Iraq's largest, in 2009. Today it's being held — barely — by Iraqi forces against ISIS fighters.
Conflict
As the US bombs ISIS oil in Syria, militants lay siege to Iraq’s biggest refinery
Blue jerry cans, usually used by smugglers ferrying oil from Syria to Turkey, are stacked for sale in front of a shop in the Turkish border town of Hacipasa.
Conflict
ISIS is selling cheap oil to its enemies — from Syria’s government to the Kurds
Gas flares at the Suncor Oil Sands Mining Site.
Environment
The view over Alberta’s tar sands shows booming wealth — and environmental destruction