Supporters of Israeli hostages demand a deal during a protest amid ongoing negotiations for a ceasefire in Gaza. REUTERS/Itai Ron |
- Negotiators in Doha are inching closer to sealing a deal for a Gaza ceasefire and hostage release. Listen to Foreign Policy Editor Don Durfee on this episode of the Reuters World News podcast as he weighs in on why this time a deal may make it over the finish line.
- Israeli far-right police minister Itamar Ben-Gvir threatened to quit Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government if he agrees to a Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal. Follow our live blog for the latest.
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- President Joe Biden's outgoing administration is finalizing rules that will effectively bar nearly all Chinese cars and trucks from the US market, as part of a crackdown on vehicle software and hardware from China. For more on the industry, sign up for our Auto File Newsletter.
- Supertanker freight rates jumped after the US expanded sanctions on Russia's oil industry, sending traders rushing to book vessels to ship supply from other countries to China and India, shipbrokers and traders said.
- Canadian miner Barrick Gold said it will have to suspend mining operations in Mali after the government seized gold stocks from the company's Loulo-Gounkoto complex and flew them out by helicopter over the weekend.
- Britain's finance minister Rachel Reeves and Prime Minister Keir Starmer are seeking to stem a market slump, but for now what happens next to rising government borrowing costs and the falling pound is largely beyond their control.
- High government spending and a growing need among big economies - from the United States to Britain and France - to tap bond markets to fund their outlays have shot up the list of concerns for some policymakers and investors. As a result, talk of a return of bond vigilantes is growing.
- International battery cell makers are struggling to compete with Chinese giants like CATL. But innovations like solid-state batteries could upend the industry in the not-too-distant future. In this week's episode of The Big View podcast, QuantumScape CEO Siva Sivaram explains how.
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Coal, piled here at Berkshire's Jim Bridger facility in Wyoming, remains the source of 16% of the electricity in the US. REUTERS/Jim Urquhart |
In his letter to investors last year, Berkshire Hathaway Chairman Warren Buffett urged readers to come "inhale the air, drink the water" and attend the company's annual shareholder meeting in Omaha, his hometown. But federal emissions data show that Omaha's air quality ranks in the bottom third of US cities, fouled in part by coal-fired power plants owned by Berkshire in neighboring Iowa. |
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REUTERS/Stefica Nicol Bikes |
Australian scientists have discovered a bigger, more venomous species of the Sydney funnel-web spider, one of the world's deadliest. |
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