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Global weather extremes escalate: Heatwaves, floods, and a world in crisis
Cyprus Mail
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August 5, 2025
From record-breaking heat in Japan and the Middle East to deadly floods across China and India, extreme weather events are unfolding with alarming frequency and intensity — a stark reminder that the climate crisis is accelerating across the...
Oba Adetona and the politics of royal funeral
The Cable
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August 5, 2025
BY LUQMAN MURAINA The transition of Oba Sikiru Kayode Adetona, the Awujale of Ijebuland, and his subsequent Islamic burial have unearthed one of Nigeria’s longest-serving monarchs and a complex social and philosophical debate. At the heart of this...
Wind and solar droughts have a bigger impact on prices than on reliability
Renew Economy
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August 6, 2025
Long duration droughts of variable renewable energy (VRE, or wind and solar) are really not that long, nor that severe. Nevertheless, electricity spot prices are very elastic, so we need to distinguish between the implications of droughts for...
U.S. ITC investigating dairy protein dumping allegations against Canada’s supply management system
The Globe and Mail
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August 5, 2025
Canada’s supply-management system is once again under fire, as the U.S. trade commission begins an investigation into alleged dumping of low-priced dairy proteins into global markets. Hearings started last week for the investigation by the U.S....
Ether could ‘rip like 2021’ as SOL traders brace for 10% drop: Trade Secrets
Cointelegraph Magazine
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August 5, 2025
Welcome to Trade Secrets — Bitcoin and Ether price predictions from top analysts, along with options data, sentiment analysis and prediction markets to determine what they can tell us about the months and years ahead. XRP to $7.50 if “momentum...
Australian firm on the lookout for partners ahead of oil & gas drilling and development ops
Offshore Energy
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July 29, 2025
West Perth-headquartered IPB Petroleum is seeking partners to secure funding for future hydrocarbon drilling and oil and gas development activities across its exploration permit in the Browse Basin off the coast of Western Australia. Location map...
PM MARAPE HAILS HISTORIC NZ PM VISIT
PNG Haus Bung
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August 5, 2025
Prime Minister James Marape has hailed the official visit of New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon as a historic and defining moment in the bilateral relations between Papua New Guinea and New Zealand, reaffirming a shared commitment to...
Bee losses sting California’s farm economy
The Business Journal - California
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July 31, 2025
Photo contributed | BeeHero, a precision pollination company with offices in Fresno County, Israel and Australia, is using data analytics, AI and sensors to improve hive management and crop pollination. published on July 31, 2025 - 3:01 PM Written...
Reminder to justices and Filipinos: ‘Not everybody has the chance…’
Philstar
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August 5, 2025
“It is an honor to die for one’s country. Not everybody has that chance.” Moments after saying that, Chief Justice Jose Abad Santos was executed by Japanese invaders. He is the greatest Filipino martyr next only to Rizal, President Diosdado...
Who set Troodos on fire? Spoiler alert: It wasn’t the trees’ fault
Knews Kathimerini
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Let me kick things off with two completely unrelated questions: When exactly are all 13 mobile desalination units finally going to start working? Will it happen before summer ends? And what’s going on with our Prometheus, still docked in the port...
Australian farmers clap back at Donald Trump’s claims US beef will flood the Aussie market
The West Australian
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July 29, 2025
Australian cattle farmers have hit back at Donald Trump’s claims American beef will “flood” the market down under, but say they are concerned about biosecurity risks and failure to consult industry before agreeing to take more US imports. The red...
Former AWOL wicketkeeper Shabber open to return after corruption ban
The National News
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A former UAE wicketkeeper, who once went AWOL and fled the country midway through a tournament, will be able to return to cricket this month when his ban for corruption ends. Ghulam Shabber has not played sanctioned cricket since he walked out of...
Stocks rise on Fed rate cut hopes after disappointing jobs data
Zawya
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TOKYO/LONDON - Global stocks rose for a second session on Tuesday and the U.S. dollar steadied as investors raised bets the Federal Reserve would act to prop up the world's largest economy. U.S. shares rallied on Monday on generally positive...
Man United confident €75m target Benjamin Sesko favours Old Trafford move ahead of Newcastle switch
The National News
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Manchester United have bid €75 million plus add-ons for their long-term target Benjamin Sesko, the 22-year-old Slovenian who plays for RB Leipzig in Germany’s Bundesliga. United understand that the player wants to move to Old Trafford and hope...
Jeremy Rockliff reappointed as Tasmanian premier as Labor signals another no-confidence motion
The Guardian
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August 6, 2025
Tasmania’s Liberal government has been recommissioned after weeks of political limbo after a snap election that failed to deliver either major party a majority. The premier, Jeremy Rockliff, met with the governor, Barbara Baker, on Wednesday at...
Drilling discovers new ‘Monster’ gold zone near Main Hill at Mt York, WA
Investing News Network
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August 6, 2025
While it fell out of favor for fiat currencies in the middle of the 20th century, the idea that gold could once again underpin the global economy has never disappeared. So what exactly is the gold standard? What is the history the gold standard,...
Limestone proves the impossibility of a runaway greenhouse effect on Earth
The Times of India
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August 5, 2025
Rocks tell us a story which most climate scientists seem to have ignored in their panic about a runaway greenhouse effect from CO2. Geologists, however, have long known the impossibility of such an effect because current CO2 levels on Earth are a...
Senator Marshall praises Trump administration's trade deals for boosting U.S. market access
Joco Today - Kansas
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August 5, 2025
Senator Roger Marshall, US Senator for Kansas | Official U.S. House headshotSenator Roger Marshall, US Senator for Kansas | Official U.S. House headshot U.S. Senator Roger Marshall, M.D. (R-Kansas) has expressed his support for President Trump’s...
Disdain and apathy in Washington DC
New Statesman
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August 6, 2025
I had never been to a protest where no one turned up. But on a recent evening in Washington DC, there was just me and the three organisers. It was an awkward situation, like a group waiting for the arrival of the friend they all like most; more...
Australia's youngest senator, 21, launches furious attack on Pauline Hanson and suggests she's stupid: 'All I can say is, are you kidding?'
Daily Mail
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July 29, 2025
Australia's youngest senator, 21, has blasted Pauline Hanson and suggested the One Nation leader is stupid for trying to scrap the nation's net zero target. Hanson, 71, introduced a motion on Monday to scrap Australia's net zero emissions target,...