Austria’s Foreign Minister Will Not Attend OPEC Conference Amid Media Ban

Austria’s Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg will not be attending next week’s OPEC conference in Vienna after the cartel once again excluded reporters from some of the biggest news organizations from covering the event that will include industry leaders and officials, the Financial Times reported on Friday. The dispute between OPEC and several media organizations arose early in June, when reporters from Reuters, Bloomberg, and The Wall Street Journal were not accredited to cover OPEC’s meeting on June 3-4 at OPEC’s…