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Canada’s oil industry at odds with Trudeau over new 2030 climate plans By Reuters

Canada’s oil industry at odds with Trudeau over new 2030 climate plans By Reuters

2/2 © Reuters. FILE PHOTO: The Suncor tar sands processing plant near the Athabasca River at their mining operations near Fort McMurray, Alberta, September 17, 2014. REUTERS/Todd Korol/File Photo 2/2 By Nia Williams CALGARY, Alberta…

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Sri Lanka teeters on economic edge, from pandemic-fueled financial crisis and Ukraine war spillovers

Sri Lanka teeters on economic edge, from pandemic-fueled financial crisis and Ukraine war spillovers

An unprecedented economic crisis is unfolding in Sri Lanka. And while the country’s problems have been brewing for years, spillovers from the crisis in Ukraine have sent the island nation over the edge. The Sri…

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BoE moves to renewable energy

BoE moves to renewable energy

The Bank of England has announced that all its electricity and natural gas will come from renewable sources from this month onwards. In a statement on Twitter, the BoE said the decision was part of…

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a billion-year history of Earth’s interior shows it’s more mobile than we thought

a billion-year history of Earth’s interior shows it’s more mobile than we thought

Deep in the Earth beneath us lie two blobs the size of continents. One is under Africa, the other under the Pacific Ocean. The blobs have their roots 2,900km below the surface, almost halfway to…

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U.S. warns India, others against sharp rise in Russian oil imports -official By Reuters

U.S. warns India, others against sharp rise in Russian oil imports -official By Reuters

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A Russian state flag flies on the top of a diesel plant in the Yarakta Oil Field, owned by Irkutsk Oil Company (INK), in Irkutsk Region, Russia March 10, 2019. Picture…

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April will be cruel to UK households, but the economy’s problems are much longer term

April will be cruel to UK households, but the economy’s problems are much longer term

The poet TS Eliot famously proclaimed April to be the “cruellest month”. Writing after surviving a pandemic – the Spanish flu of 1918 – he was referring to the familiar (often misguided) sense of hope…

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U.S. Oil Stockpiles Fell 3.4 Million Barrels Last Week: EIA By Investing.com

U.S. Oil Stockpiles Fell 3.4 Million Barrels Last Week: EIA By Investing.com

© Reuters. By Sam Boughedda Investing.com — U.S. oil stockpiles declined by more than expected in the latest week, the Energy Information Administration said on Wednesday. dropped by 3.449 million barrels last week, compared with…

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Uganda study shows text messages can boost tax compliance: here’s what worked

Uganda study shows text messages can boost tax compliance: here’s what worked

Every government needs money to fund its political, social and economic duties. Much of what they spend is generated from taxes, fines and sales of public goods and services. The exchange of these revenues for…

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Tiny tracks tell of ancient paths made by gerbils and spiders on South Africa’s south coast

Tiny tracks tell of ancient paths made by gerbils and spiders on South Africa’s south coast

When large animals like elephants, giraffes and crocodiles roamed what is today South Africa’s Cape south coast hundreds of thousands of years ago, they were not alone. Far below their sight lines, tiny creatures like…

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Ida Wolden Bache becomes Norges Bank governor as MPC raises rates

Ida Wolden Bache becomes Norges Bank governor as MPC raises rates

Norges Bank increased policy rates today (March 24), as Ida Wolden Bache was appointed governor after Nato secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg announced he would not take the role. The Norwegian central bank’s executive board increased the…

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