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Mongolia and USA to cooperate on rare earths
Mongolia will deepen cooperation with Washington to mine rare earths, the country’s Prime Minister L. Oyun-Erdene said on a visit to Washington on Wednesday (2 August), but he warned that a “new Cold War” between the US and China wo...

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China pledges to target transportation in the next phase of pollution fight
China will ramp up its efforts to curb transportation pollution in the next phase of its campaign to improve air quality, an environment official said on Wednesday.

Liu Bingjiang, director of th...

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Protests in Indonesia as thousands face eviction for Rempang ‘Eco-City’
Demonstrations have rocked Indonesia’s Riau province as residents of Rempang Island protest against government plans to evict thousands of people to make way for a multibillion-dollar Chinese-owned glass f...

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Further cooperation between Beijing and Phnom Penh
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet and Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday pledged more support on “national sovereignty, security, and development”, as Beijing grapples with tensions in the Indo-Pacific.

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Moscow: Two U.S. Embassy Workers expelled for 'Liaising' With Russian Citizen Accused of Spying
Moscow on Thursday said it was expelling two U.S. Embassy employees for allegedly "liaising" with a former U.S. consulate worker accused by Russian authorities of spying for Washin...

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Singapore’s first female president’s last day in office
Six years after making history as Singapore’s first woman head of state, President Halimah Yacob left the highest office in the land with accolades of being a powerful symbol of unity for all Singaporeans.

At her f...

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South Korean AI chip intellectual property startup valued at $81.4 million
The South Korean chip startup Panmnesia has raised a seed round that values it at $81.4 million, the company has said.

Panmnesia's business is focused on developing intellectual property around a...

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Poland's CD Projekt to release Cyberpunk 2077 update on Sept. 21
Poland's biggest video game developer CD Projekt will release an update to its flagship game Cyberpunk 2077 on Sept. 21, a company representative said on Thursday during a livestream on YouTube.

The update...

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$2.7 trillion a year needed to achieve net zero emissions by 2050
World needs a global investment of $2.7 trillion a year to achieve net zero emissions by 2050 and avoid temperatures from rising above 1.5 degrees Celsius this century, a report by consultancy Wood Mackenzie sai...

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World leaders have call for the World Bank’s expansion to boost its lending capacity 
World leaders have called for the World Bank’s expansion to boost its lending capacity — but that can’t happen without funding from the private sector, the bank said. 

The World Bank i...

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Google is cutting hundreds of jobs globally 
Google is reportedly laying off hundreds of employees from its recruiting team globally. However, Google has not given any exact number of people who have been asked to go. The tech giant said in a statement that the "volume of requ...

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India or Bharat: Government may bring resolution in Parliament's special session https://t.co/IBCQNv9DNT
The Narendra Modi-led government is likely to bring a resolution for changing India's official name to 'Bharat' during the special session of Parliament, scheduled from Sep...

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A multinational rail and shipping project linking India with the Middle East and Europe announced at the G20 summit https://t.co/65ATkMNuyB
A multinational rail and shipping project linking India with the Middle East and Europe has been announced on the sidelines of the G20 su...

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Tesla reinvents the way of making electric cars
Tesla has combined a series of innovations to make a technological breakthrough that could transform the way it makes electric vehicles and help Elon Musk achieve his aim of halving production costs, five people familiar with the...

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China and Venezuela agree to advance cooperation https://t.co/v2z8wQYIor
China and Venezuela elevated their ties to an all-weather strategic partnership on Wednesday, as the countries agreed to advance cooperation on the joint building of the Belt and Road, economy and trade, ...

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Taiwanese Foreign Minister Joseph Wu: Taiwan is ‘not for sale’ after Musk discusses Beijing’s stance on the island
Taiwan has clapped back at Elon Musk after the billionaire businessman waded into the delicate issue of the island’s relations with China.

Taiwanese Foreig...

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EU Parliament condemns Minsk's involvement Russia's military aggression and war crimes in Ukraine
The European Parliament has recognized Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko as an "accomplice" to Russia's military aggression and war crimes in Ukraine, according to a resol...

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US considering seeking access to more Philippine bases
The U.S. military could be granted access to more bases in the Philippines under a joint defence agreement between the two countries, the chief of the U.S. Indo-Pacific command said on Thursday after meeting the head of th...

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US considering seeking access to more Philippine bases
The U.S. military could be granted access to more bases in the Philippines under a joint defence agreement between the two countries, the chief of the U.S. Indo-Pacific command said on Thursday after meeting the head of th...

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Libya: Fears of up to 20,000 dead after catastrophic flood
Deputy mayor of Derna, Libya’s flooded city, Ahmed Madroud says dams have not been maintained since 2002, and damage from floods will be difficult to repair.

Rescue teams in Libya are struggling to retrieve the ...