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Global coal demand is due to grow by 0.5% year-on-year to reach record levels in 2025, according to the latest figures in the IEA’s annual market report. Yet this will be …
IEA: Declining coal demand in China set to outweigh Trump’s pro-coal policies Read More
While the festive season’s most famous workers are the elves of the North Pole and their sleigh-riding courier, there are many more that keep things running over the final weeks …
Labor rights in Europe: Who’s working over Christmas? Read More
Millions of migrant workers face exploitation in Europe’s fields, harvesting the fruit and vegetables that many of us purchase. This was the stark finding of a disturbing investigation published last …
Rotten at the core: the silent exploitation of migrant fruit & veg pickers Read More
RANDOLPH, Minn. (AP) — When Donald Trump promised new tariffs while running for president, Gene Stehly worried that trade disputes would jeopardize his international sales of corn, soybeans and wheat. A little …
Farmers will get more money from Trump. They still have more problems Read More
BRUSSELS — The EU has struck a political agreement to overhaul the bloc’s foreign direct investment screening rules, the Council of the EU announced on Thursday, in a move to prevent …
EU reaches deal to screen incoming foreign investments Read More
Climate change-fuelled risks have now become a “crucial factor in home-buying decisions” for more than 80 per cent of potential buyers. That’s what Zillow, the US’s largest real estate listings …
Nowhere to move: How climate change became the property market’s biggest nightmare Read More
LONDON — The U.K. has agreed to raise how much its National Health Service spends on new drugs, in a concession made under pressure from the Trump administration in return …
Trump admin claims win as UK bows to pressure on NHS drug spending Read More
LONDON, Dec 5 (Reuters) – Europe has finally taken major steps to build up its rare earths sector to counter Chinese dominance, but the region also needs to guard against being overwhelmed …
Europe must guard against US dominance in rare earths, agency head says Read More
In her nine years at the Laura Bonaparte national mental health hospital in Buenos Aires City, Julieta Chevallier has seen suffering widen and deepen. “When people finally come to see …
In Milei’s Argentina, austerity economics manifests as a mental health crisis Read More
Chinese AI companies are quietly tapping into Kenya’s young workforce, hiring students and recent graduates to label thousands of videos a day. The work is done through opaque networks of …
The hidden Kenyan workers training China’s AI models Read More