| ‘The lithium world is on pins and needles.’ The two biggest lithium producers signed deals to increase their output in the world’s driest desert. The true state of the water supply in a basin of the world’s driest desert has become an obsession of lithium industry watchers. |
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| U.S. President Donald Trump has said he did not want to abandon ally Saudi Arabia over the disappearance of a Saudi journalist and has asked for audio recordings Turkish sources say indicate he was killed by Saudi agents. |
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| Commentary: When it comes to defining America’s quandary on Saudi Arabia, U.S. President Donald Trump’s description is mercenary in the extreme. If Washington doesn’t stay close to Riyadh and sell it arms, he told reporters this weekend, the Saudis will turn to Moscow or Beijing instead. He has a point – and one that also speaks to the broader geopolitical and moral issues at stake, writes Reuters global affairs columnist Peter Apps. Across the Middle East, the more the United States attempts to inflict its will on often increasingly autocratic governments, the more they simply turn elsewhere.
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| Two @Reuters journalists have been detained in Myanmar since Dec. 12, 2017. See our coverage of the case: https://reut.rs/2PoSwVD 1:27 AM - OCT 16, 2018 |
