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Oil prices inch up on Fed rate cut outlook By Reuters

Oil prices inch up on Fed rate cut outlook By Reuters

SINGAPORE (Reuters) -Oil prices edged up in early trade on Monday amid expectations of a U.S. interest rate cut this week, though gains were capped by weaker China data and persistent demand worries. futures for…

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Avoiding man-made disasters like Grenfell could be helped by holding executives more accountable

Avoiding man-made disasters like Grenfell could be helped by holding executives more accountable

All of the 72 deaths caused by the fire at Grenfell Tower in 2017 were avoidable. The same could be said of the 346 people who died in two separate Boeing 737 MAX crashes in…

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Hidden craters reveal Earth may once have had a ring – like Saturn

Hidden craters reveal Earth may once have had a ring – like Saturn

The rings of Saturn are some of the most famous and spectacular objects in the Solar System. Earth may once have had something similar. In a paper published last week in Earth & Planetary Science…

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Shanghai braces for direct hit from Typhoon Bebinca By Reuters

Shanghai braces for direct hit from Typhoon Bebinca By Reuters

By Samuel Shen and Ryan Woo SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) -Shanghai halted transportation links, recalled ships and shut tourism spots including Shanghai Disney Resort on Sunday as it braced for Typhoon Bebinca, in what could be the…

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South African agriculture needs to crack the Chinese market. How to boost exports

South African agriculture needs to crack the Chinese market. How to boost exports

South Africa’s agricultural sector has more than doubled in value and volume terms since 1994. This success has been linked to international trade. Exports now account for roughly half (in value terms) of the annual…

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Facebook has scraped public data from Australian users without an opt out. What can we do?

Facebook has scraped public data from Australian users without an opt out. What can we do?

Facebook acknowledged in a Senate inquiry yesterday that it is scraping the public photos of Australian users to train its artificial intelligence (AI) models. Facebook’s parent company Meta claims this excludes data from users who…

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What is China’s role in the uranium market By Investing.com

What is China’s role in the uranium market By Investing.com

Investing.com — China’s growing demand for uranium is shaping the global market as the country intensifies its reliance on nuclear energy and potentially expands its nuclear arsenal, according to Citi analysts. Citi reports that China’s…

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Four ways to know whether to stay or go if your workplace is a sinking ship

Four ways to know whether to stay or go if your workplace is a sinking ship

Over the last few weeks, after a massive defeat at the UK general election, several senior staff in the Conservative Party have reportedly taken voluntary redundancy, with more staff cuts expected to follow. Perhaps not…

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Exceptional new fish fossil sparks rethink of how Earth’s geology drives evolution

Exceptional new fish fossil sparks rethink of how Earth’s geology drives evolution

Coelacanths are deep-sea fish that live off the coasts of southern Africa and Indonesia and can reach up to two metres in length. For a long time, scientists believed they were extinct. In new research…

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Nearly 30% of US Gulf of Mexico oil output offline after storm By Reuters

Nearly 30% of US Gulf of Mexico oil output offline after storm By Reuters

HOUSTON (Reuters) – Nearly 30% of U.S. Gulf of Mexico production and 41% of its production remained offline on Saturday following Hurricane Francine, the U.S. offshore energy regulator said. There was more than 522,000 barrels…

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