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EU leaders push rival fixes to reverse bloc's 'decline'
AFP, Published on 12/02/2026
» ANTWERP (BELGIUM) - EU leaders told industry executives on Wednesday they were committed to transforming the bloc's lagging economy into a global powerhouse able to confront US and Chinese competition.
EU set to abandon 2035 combustion-engine ban
AFP, Published on 16/12/2025
» BRUSSELS - The European Union looks set to scrap a landmark 2035 ban on new petrol and diesel cars on Tuesday, as part of a package of reforms aimed at supporting Europe’s embattled auto industry.
Australian mining giant BHP drops Anglo American takeover bid
AFP, Published on 24/11/2025
» SYDNEY - Australian resources giant BHP said on Monday it had dropped a bid to take over British rival Anglo American that would have created the world's largest miner of copper.
Countries agree to end mercury tooth fillings by 2034
AFP, Published on 08/11/2025
» GENEVA - Countries agreed on Friday to phase out the use of mercury-based dental amalgams in tooth fillings by 2034, in a move that will change how dentistry is done around the world.
Downgraded Hurricane Melissa makes landfall in Cuba
AFP, Published on 29/10/2025
» HAVANA - A downgraded Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Cuba early on Wednesday after ripping a path of destruction across Jamaica, which authorities have designated a “disaster area”.
US, Australia sign rare earths deal as Trump promises submarines
AFP, Published on 21/10/2025
» WASHINGTON - US President Donald Trump signed a deal on rare earth minerals on Monday with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, and said Washington's key ally would get its coveted nuclear-powered attack submarines.
Not nothing, not enough: is the Paris climate agreement working?
AFP, Published on 13/10/2025
» PARIS - Climate cooperation is facing a reckoning. Ten years after the landmark Paris Agreement, major polluters are wavering on action while the world fast approaches the deal's safer warming limit.
'Greatest con job ever': Trump trashes climate science at UN
AFP, Published on 24/09/2025
» UNITED NATIONS (UNITED STATES) - He mocked renewables as a "joke," praised "clean, beautiful coal" and declared climate change the "greatest con job ever."
US agents arrest 475 in raid on Hyundai-LG plant
AFP, Published on 06/09/2025
» WASHINGTON - South Koreans suspected of working in the United States illegally were the majority of the 475 people arrested in a raid on a Hyundai-LG battery plant being built in the southern state of Georgia, a US official said Friday.
Chinese firms pay price of jihadist strikes against Mali junta
AFP, Published on 05/09/2025
» ABIDJAN — Jihadists allied to Al-Qaeda have launched a blitz of raids on Malian industrial sites run by foreign firms, especially Chinese, as a tactic to undermine the ruling junta.