Ethiopia’s Afar and Oromia regions have been hit by several earthquakes and tremors since the beginning of 2025. The strongest, with a magnitude of 5.7, struck on 4 January. The US Geological Survey and the…
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By Timothy Gardner, Valerie Volcovici and Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump on Monday laid out a sweeping plan to maximize already record high U.S. oil and gas production by declaring a national energy…
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As wildfires swept through neighborhoods on the outskirts of Los Angeles in January 2025, stories about residents there helping their neighbors and total strangers began trickling out on social media. Accounts of Hollywood stars clearing…
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Digital agriculture is often hailed as an almost magical trigger for promoting successful farming, even among smallholder farmers in the developing world. Its proponents argue that using digital tools to, for instance, generate records and…
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The Deutsche Bundesbank has announced it is leaving X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter. In a posting today (January 17), Germany’s central bank said its account would exist “only as an archived…
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By Florence Tan SINGAPORE (Reuters) -Oil prices fell on Monday as expectations of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump relaxing curbs on Russia’s energy sector in exchange for a deal to end the Ukraine war offset concern…
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Barely six months after the UK general election, Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ political opponents are calling for her to resign. Former prime minster Boris Johnson cast one of the first stones with a post on X…
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On the east coast of Australia, in tropical North Queensland, lies the Daintree rainforest – a place where the density of trees forms an almost impenetrable mass of green. Stepping into the forest can feel…
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Investing.com — Former President Donald Trump’s energy agenda, encapsulated by the slogan “drill, baby, drill,” promised reduced regulatory barriers, increased fossil fuel production, and lower commodity prices. However, the reality of US energy production remains…
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Tragedies in social housing, such as the Grenfell Tower fire in 2017 and the death of toddler Awaab Ishak due to damp living conditions in 2020, remain shocking. As a coroner commented at the time,…
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