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Deep divisions on display at plastic pollution treaty talks
Busan (South Korea) (AFP) - A final round of talks on a treaty to curb plastic pollution opened on Monday,...
‘Existential challenge’: plastic pollution treaty talks begin
Busan (South Korea) (AFP) - A final round of talks on a treaty to curb plastic pollution opened on Monday,...
Closing arguments coming in US-Google antitrust trial on ad tech
Alexandria (United States) (AFP) - Google and the US government will face off in a federal court on Monday, as...
Equity markets mostly on front foot, as bitcoin rally stutters
London (AFP) - Major stock markets mostly rose Monday as traders welcomed Donald Trump's pick for Treasury secretary, while bitcoin's...
Petrol industry embraces plastics while navigating energy shift
Washington (AFP) - Amid the inexorable shift toward more electric vehicles, oil and gas producers are looking increasingly to plastics...
Climate finance’s ‘new era’ shows new political realities
Baku (AFP) - Rich countries' promise of $300 billion a year in climate finance brought fury at talks in Baku...
Cheers, angst as US nuclear plant Three Mile Island to reopen
Middletown (United States) (AFP) - The planned reopening of the Three Mile Island nuclear plant is praised as a boon...
Trump’s mass deportation plan could end up hurting economic growth
Washington (AFP) - President-elect Donald Trump's hardline immigration proposals -- including a controversial mass deportation plan -- could prove economically...
Mounting economic costs of India’s killer smog
New Delhi (AFP) - Noxious smog smothering the plains of north India is not only choking the lungs of residents...
Afghan women turn to entrepreneurship under Taliban
Kabul (AFP) - When Zainab Ferozi saw Afghan women struggling to feed their families after Taliban authorities took power, she...
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