Every morning the phone buzzes, many times in short succession, as the students send photo after photo of the snakes, frogs and lizards that have been caught in various traps the previous day. We scroll…
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By Barani Krishnan Investing.com – Gold finished with a weekly gain of 1%, after the meltdown that took it to sub-$1,700 levels. But the recovery was far from the fabled likes of a phoenix rising…
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It is only a few days since the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) signalled the dire consequences of human-induced climate change. At the heart of this stark warning by UN…
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Argentina’s finance minister has said the government is set to open negotiations with international investors and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) over the maturity of its bonds. The sharp depreciation of the peso, following president…
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© Reuters. A man holds a fuel pump at a gas station in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil July 8, 2021. REUTERS/Amanda Perobelli/Files By Laura Sanicola NEW YORK (Reuters) -Oil prices dipped on Friday and ended…
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Five decades ago this month, US President Richard Nixon informed the world that the US would no longer honour its commitment to exchange US dollars for gold on demand. The commitment had been the foundation…
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Vaccine and drug development, artificial intelligence, transport and logistics, climate science — these are all areas that stand to be transformed by the development of a full-scale quantum computer. And there has been explosive growth…
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2/2 © Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Low water levels due to drought are seen in the Hoover Dam reservoir of Lake Mead near Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. June 9, 2021. REUTERS/Bridget Bennett/File Photo 2/2 By Sharon…
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Tarana Burke’s #MeToo movement has evolved in the four years since it exploded on the national scene with the Weinstein scandal. From a flurry of #MeToo-related headlines in 2017, the movement has now produced a…
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Join the FSB’s virtual workshop on the lessons for financial stability from the COVID-19 pandemic. The workshop will be held on Wednesday 1 September at 13:00 (CEST) and will cover market and institutional resilience, operational…
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