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NASA reveals first images from Carbon Mapper's Tanager-1 satellite, exposing a landfill in Karachi, a coal power plant in Africa and a Texas oilfield
Beijing may approve the issuance of debt totaling $1.4 trillion next week to bail out local governments, but the amount could be raised if Trump wins the US election
With Chinese citizens limiting their spending, big foreign companies are changing their strategies, as a property crisis drags on and youth unemployment stays high
The new rules, to take effect in 2025, will ban US investment in three sectors: Chinas chips and microelectronics, quantum information tech and certain AI systems
Losing out on the Indonesian market could be significant to Apple at a time it is struggling to bolster sales in China, which has been one of its top markets
The University of Iceland is one of 12 institutions working on a research project to determine if climate change will trigger increased volcanic activity
A state enterprise is acquiring control of the last foreign-owned rare earth refineries in China, while details about the sector are now classed as state secrets
The countries primarily responsible for the financing crunch are, ironically, the two biggest economies of the world — the United States and China
The US election poses risks for China – the threat of major tariff increases, a trade war and geopolitical instability if Trump wins; economic decisions can be made once the result is known.
Teams from both companies will work on exploring pelletizing, using Rio's ore from northwestern Australia and the application of biomass
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With a market cap of$240 billion, chipmaker ASML is Europe’s most valuable tech company. Its market-leading position comes from its monopoly in Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography (EUV) machines which allow chipmakers to make smaller, faster and smarter semiconductors
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Oil & GasIndia Is Likely Exporting Refined Russian Oil to the WestIndia’s fast-rising Russian oil imports are being matched by its rising oil exports suggesting it may be reselling Russia’s oil to the West.
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MarketsApple Asks Suppliers in Taiwan to Meet China Label StandardsUS tech giant Apple told its Taiwan suppliers that products moving to China must be labelled to state that the island is a part of China and not an independent nation
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MarketsIndian-Owned Tech Firms See Sharp Growth in UKDespite a moribund British economy and heavy corporate tax, Indian-owned tech firms are growing in the UK.
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MarketsChina Becomes World’s Second-Biggest Bitcoin Mining HubThe Bitcoin mining ban in China last year had collapsed its crypto markets. Despite that, the country has reemerged as a major bitcoin mining hub, according to research by the UK's University of Cambridge.
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