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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The U.S. government plans to auction off massive sections of water surrounding American Samoa for potential deep-sea mining in an unprecedented move that is expected to …
The US plans to auction off sections of water around American Samoa in a push for deep-sea mining Read More
The European Commission has proposed reducing the capital requirements for the EU’s banks, in a move aimed at overhauling the regulatory framework introduced after the 2008 financial crisis. In a communication published …
Brussels proposes cuts to EU bank capital requirements Read More
The news came out just a few days ago: ADNOC Distribution, a petroleum retailer in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, will take over energy giant Shell’s petrol …
Why Gulf states are investing billions in Africa Read More
Together, these initiatives would have made up around half of the £200m that the UK pledged to support conservation in the Congo basin – the world’s second-largest rainforest. When it …
UK withdraws millions in funding from world’s second-largest rainforest in Congo Read More
U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration and the pharmaceutical sector may be at war over drug prices in Washington. But in Europe, they’re working in partnership to drive them up. Pharmaceutical …
It’s complicated: The Trump-pharma relationship split by the Atlantic Read More
8m households in the UK could see their electricity bills instantly drop through a nationwide scheme which would enable the mass-installation of home solar power and batteries with no upfront …
Nationwide solar panel scheme could lower electricity bills for 8m households with no upfront cost Read More
Involution — neijuan (内卷) in Mandarin, literally “inward curling” — entered everyday Chinese speech around 2020. The concept was borrowed from the American anthropologist Clifford Geertz, who described a pattern in colonial …
China’s AI boom is creating a different kind of entrepreneur Read More
Standards watchdogs should publish a “red list” of former ministers who have broken lobbying rules, according to a new report calling for an overhaul of the system. It follows a …
The UK Allows Former Politicians To Break Lobbying Rules With Impunity. That Could Be About To Change Read More
Deep in Egypt’s eastern desert, just a few miles from the Red Sea town of Marsa Alam, a team of archaeologists has in recent years uncovered an extraordinary gold extraction …
Egypt searches the desert for mineral treasures Read More
Super PACs funded by AIPAC and major big tech donors have poured roughly $2 million behind Rep. Diana DeGette on the eve of her contentious primary in Colorado’s first congressional …
AIPAC, Big Tech Back Diana DeGette Over Melat Kiros With $2M Spending Flood Read More