"A telephone conversation took place between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Crown Prince and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud.

In 1960, frustrated by Western control over the world’s oil industry, five of the world’s top oil-producing nations created the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, or OPEC.

OPEC said on Wednesday that Kazakhstan led a sizeable jump in February crude output by the wider OPEC+, highlighting a ...