United Arab Emirates intends to leave OPEC oil cartel after six decades of membership

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The United Arab Emirates has announced it will leave the oil cartel OPEC and its wider OPEC+ group effective on May 1, a move rumoured for some time as the Emirates chaffed under production restrictions and increasingly had frostier relations with neighbouring Saudi Arabia. [{ "selector": ".onzqg-a", "duration": "500ms", "fill": "forwards", "delay": "0ms", "keyframes": [ {"offset": 0, "transform": "translateX(calc(360px - 30px))", "opacity": "1", "visibility" :"visible"}, {"offset": 1, "transform": "translateX(0)", "opacity": "1", "visibility" :"visible"} ] }]