© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Crude oil storage tanks are seen from above at the Cushing oil hub, in Cushing, Oklahoma, March 24, 2016. REUTERS/Nick Oxford/File Photo By Jessica Resnick-Ault NEW YORK (Reuters) -Oil rose on…
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As the world prepares to discuss more aggressive cuts to carbon emissions at the UN’s COP26 climate conference in Glasgow, China has just sent out the worst possible advance signal. It is going to loosen…
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All of the 2021 Nobel Prizes in science were awarded to men. That’s a return to business as usual after a couple of good years for female laureates. In 2020, Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna…
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© Reuters. (adds Brent settlement) By Barani Krishnan Investing.com – U.S. crude posted a seventh straight weekly gain, its second such winning streak since December, and breached $80 a barrel on Friday for the first…
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Shareholder activists in South Africa have disapproved of lengthy tenures for directors on boards of listed public companies. They have exerted pressure on long-serving directors to resign. Boards with many long-serving directors are regarded as…
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Before humans and early primates, before dinosaurs, and even before trees, there were sharks. Sharks have been around for more than 400 million years (although how long exactly remains contested). They have survived five major…
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The Bank for International Settlements’ third innovation hub is to focus on the creation of digital identities and a platform to link central banks and regtech providers. The hub centre launched today (November 13) on…
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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Workers drill at an open cast coal field at Dhanbad district in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand September 18, 2012. REUTERS/Ahmad Masood By Sudarshan Varadhan NEW DELHI (Reuters) -Delhi Chief…
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The definition of child labour on cocoa farms in West Africa is still in dispute Dr.Richard Asare/Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA The evidence of child labour on cocoa farms in West Africa became public knowledge in the…
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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A view of the exterior of the JPMorgan Chase & Co corporate headquarters in New York City May 20, 2015. REUTERS/Mike Segar/File Photo By Elizabeth Dilts Marshall NEW YORK (Reuters) -JPMorgan…
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