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The United States and United Arab Emirates have reached an agreement to spend US$100 billion (S$141 billion) on clean energy projects with a goal of adding 100 gigawatts globally by 2035, U.S Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on…
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US President Joe Biden said on Monday he plans to seek tax penalties for oil companies unless they invest their record profits in lowering consumer costs and boosting production, criticizing their “war profiteering.” His comments came…
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Two weeks out from the Nov 8 midterms, President Joe Biden sat for an interview – not with a broadcast news anchor or major newspaper, but a panel of six young activists organized by NowThis News. As the conversation aired on the…
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US President Joe Biden will travel to Egypt to participate in the COP27 United Nations climate change summit on Nov 11, where he will call on the world to act “in this decisive decade”, the White House said on Friday. He will then travel…
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Adidas terminated its partnership with rapper and fashion designer Ye on Tuesday after he made a series of anti-Semitic remarks, a move that knocked the musician off the Forbes list of the world’s billionaires. Adidas put the tie-up,…
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Range anxiety is a thing of the past for electric vehicle (EV) owners in the Chinese province of Guangdong. The coastal region, which borders Hong Kong, has built hundreds of thousands of public charging points, the EV equivalent of…
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Armed with mountains of data, artificial intelligence is emerging as an important tool for airlines to find the ideal fares to charge passengers, helping them squeeze out as much revenue as possible as the industry emerges from its biggest…
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Twitter Inc has frozen equity award accounts for employees days ahead of the deadline to close its deal with Elon Musk, media reported on Tuesday, a sign that the social media firm hopes the deal will be completed. The report sent…
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A near-record number of US chickens and turkeys have died in this year’s outbreak of avian flu, as a different form of the virus than farmers battled before has infected more wild birds that then transmit the disease, officials said.…
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Women who frequently use chemical hair straightening products could face more than twice the risk of uterine cancer compared to those who never use them, according to a new study published on Monday. The findings, published in the…
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