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Explainer: Why the U.S. Inflation Discount Act has rattled Europe

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BRUSSELS, Feb 1 (Reuters) – The European Fee offered its Inexperienced Deal Industrial Plan on Wednesday in response to the U.S. Inflation Discount Act (IRA), with elevated ranges of state help to assist Europe compete as a producing hub for clear tech merchandise. Whereas EU nations welcome the U.S. dedication to vitality transition, they concern … Read more

India ramps up spending in final funds forward of election

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NEW DELHI, Feb 1 (Reuters) – India’s authorities on Wednesday unveiled a $550 billion funds for the subsequent fiscal 12 months that begins on April 1, with a plan for file capital spending whereas reining within the fiscal deficit. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s social gathering, which faces elections in key states this 12 months and … Read more

New Zealand counts value of Auckland floods, extra rain forecast

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WELLINGTON, Jan 30 (Reuters) – Flood-ravaged Auckland is forecast to obtain additional heavy rain within the coming days, authorities in New Zealand’s largest metropolis mentioned on Monday, as insurers counted the prices of what seems to be more likely to be the nation’s most costly climate occasion ever. 4 folks misplaced their lives in flash … Read more

Rio Tinto apologises after contractor loses radioactive capsule in Australia

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MELBOURNE, Jan 30 (Reuters) – Rio Tinto Ltd’s (RIO.AX) iron ore division chief Simon Trott apologised on Monday after a contractor employed by the mining big misplaced a radioactive capsule in transit in Western Australia, sparking a radiation alert throughout components of the state. It’s unclear how lengthy the radioactive capsule, a part of a … Read more

Davos 2023: Greta Thunberg accuses power corporations of throwing individuals ‘underneath the bus’

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DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan 19 (Reuters) – Greta Thunberg known as on the worldwide power trade and its financiers to finish all fossil gas investments on Thursday at a high-profile assembly in Davos with the pinnacle of the Worldwide Vitality Company (IEA). Throughout a round-table dialogue with Fatih Birol on the sidelines of the World Financial … Read more

Yellen, China’s Liu agree to boost communication after ‘frank trade’ – U.S. Treasury

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ZURICH, Jan 18 (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen agreed with Chinese language Vice Premier Liu He to boost communication about macroeconomic and monetary points throughout a “candid, substantive, and constructive” assembly in Zurich on Wednesday, the Treasury mentioned. In a press release, the Treasury mentioned each side agreed to boost cooperation on local … Read more

Greta Thunberg arrested at German mine protest, will likely be freed later, police say

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LUETZERATH, Germany, Jan 17 (Reuters) – Local weather campaigner Greta Thunberg was detained alongside different activists on Tuesday throughout protests in opposition to the demolition of the coal village of Luetzerath however the whole group will likely be launched later within the day, in line with police. “There isn’t any motive to carry them for … Read more

Scientists unearth megaraptors, feathered dinosaur fossils in Chile’s Patagonia

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Jan 16 (Reuters) – Scientists in Chile’s Patagonia area are unearthing the southernmost dinosaur fossils recorded exterior Antarctica, together with stays of megaraptors that might have dominated the realm’s meals chain earlier than their mass extinction. Fossils of megaraptors, a carnivorous dinosaur that inhabited elements of South America in the course of the Cretaceous interval … Read more

Davos 2023: Large Oil in sights of local weather activist protests

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DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan 16 (Reuters) – Large oil companies got here beneath stress at first of the World Financial Discussion board (WEF) from activists who accused them of hijacking the local weather debate, whereas a Greta Thunberg-sponsored “stop and desist” marketing campaign gained assist on social media. Main power companies together with BP (BP.L), Chevron … Read more

One 12 months after volcanic blast, lots of Tonga’s reefs lay silent

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Jan 15 (Reuters) – One 12 months on from the large eruption of an underwater volcano within the South Pacific, the island nation of Tonga remains to be coping with the injury to its coastal waters. When Hunga-Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai went off, it despatched a shockwave around the globe, produced a plume of water and ash … Read more