© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: The logo of the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) sits outside its headquarters in Vienna CAIRO (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia’s energy minister and Iraqi counterpart stressed, in a phone…
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Far beneath the city of Dongshen in northern China, we have discovered what may be the 2 billion-year-old birthmarks of Earth’s first supercontinent. An ancient dipping structure in the planet’s crust appears to be a…
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COVID-19 has prompted widespread discussion of the resilience of food systems and how efficiency and competitiveness have been previously understood. Recent decades have seen the growth of increasingly complex food value chains. These are underpinned…
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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Gold bars are displayed at South Africa’s Rand Refinery in Germiston By Eileen Soreng (Reuters) – Gold surged to a record high on Thursday as the COVID-19 pandemic clouded the economic…
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The Zimbabwean government recently signed an agreement to pay 4,500 white farmers US$3.5 billion for infrastructure improvements on the land expropriated by the government during the chaotic land reform programme of 1997/8. The initiative shows…
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© Reuters. Oil Steady Near Five-Month High With U.S. Stockpiles Shrinking (Bloomberg) — Oil was steady in New York near a five-month high as stockpiles fell more than expected, offsetting rising fuel inventories and softer…
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Jellyfish can be found in almost every ocean in the world. These beautiful, graceful creatures are a sight to behold; their swift, pulsating motions gently propel them through the water. But the scene can quickly…
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Donald Trump’s threat to ban TikTok, a video sharing app owned by Beijing-based ByteDance, on August 1 is only the latest in a series of clashes between the US and China. With each of these…
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© Reuters. By Kate Abnett BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Commision said on Wednesday it had extended anti-dumping duties on imports of Chinese corrosion-resistant steel to stop producers avoiding existing duties by slightly modifying the…
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The Lebanese capital Beirut was rocked on Tuesday evening local time by an explosion that has killed at least 78 people and injured thousands more. The country’s prime minister Hassan Diab said the blast was…
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