2/2 © Reuters. FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden speaks about gas prices during remarks in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building’s South Court Auditorium at the White House in Washington, U.S., June 22, 2022. REUTERS/Kevin…
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Have you or a loved one ever needed surgery? Imagine what your life would be like if you couldn’t have it. Billions of people around the world lack access to surgery because equipment and general…
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Last Saturday, a two-seater SIAI-Marchetti S.211 jet took off from Essendon Fields Airport in Melbourne with an expert aerobatic pilot at the controls and a case full of scientific experiments in the passenger seat. Pilot…
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© Reuters. An aerial view shows an oil factory of Idemitsu Kosan Co. in Ichihara, east of Tokyo, Japan November 12, 2021, in this photo taken by Kyodo. Mandatory credit Kyodo/via REUTERS By Laura Sanicola…
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On top of rampant inflation, strikes, business gloom and rising interest rates, bad news about our shopping habits was all but inevitable. The volume of goods being sold in the UK is now falling, according…
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A form of global digital currency could be the answer to the destabilising dominance of the US dollar in today’s global monetary system, Mark Carney said in remarks at the Jackson Hole symposium. The Bank…
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Despite widespread access to social media and videoconferencing technology, many Australians experienced heightened loneliness during COVID lockdowns, and continue to do so. We surveyed more than 2,000 Australians during 2020-21 about their experiences during and…
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5/5 © Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A general view of the Cheniere Texas LNG facility in Portland, Texas, U.S., June 13, 2022. To match Insight USA-LNG/AIRQUALITY REUTERS/Callaghan O’Hare 2/5 By Nichola Groom and Valerie Volcovici PORTLAND,…
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There is no doubt that globalisation has benefited Africa greatly. This includes job creation, innovation, increased productivity and foreign direct investment. But global value chains are shifting in the wake of the COVID pandemic and…
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High-grade lithium has been discovered in Nigeria. In 2019 the total production volume of lithium, not high grade, in Nigeria reached 50 metric tons This is small compared to Zimbabwe which produced 1,200 metric tons…
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