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Rio Tinto hails another step closer to develop Serbian lithium mine

LONDON/BELGRADE (Reuters) -Mining group Rio Tinto welcomed on Tuesday the Serbian government's reinstatement of its licence to develop Europe's biggest lithium mine, in a potential boost to the

Rio Tinto welcomes Serbia’s reinstatement of Jadar lithium project licence

LONDON/BELGRADE (Reuters) - Mining group Rio Tinto welcomed on Tuesday a Serbian government statement that it would reinstate a spatial plan licence for its Jadar project, a first step towards

Russian farmers fight to salvage harvest as major region cuts forecast

By Sergei Pivovarov and Olga Popova ROSTOV REGION, Russia (Reuters) - Under the sweltering sun and in temperatures of 50 degrees Celsius, farmers in the Rostov region, Russia's breadbasket, toil to

UK’s new coal mine sent ‘adverse international signal’, campaigners say

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's approval of its first new deep coal mine in decades was unlawful because ministers failed to consider the "adverse international signal" sent by the controversial decision

Trillion-dollar group urges government action to stop nature loss

By Simon Jessop and Jake Spring LONDON/SAO PAULO (Reuters) - More than 100 companies, including Unilever, L'Occitane and Iberdrola, have called on governments to enact tougher policies to reach a U.N.

Rio Tinto shuts iron ore mine in eastern Canada amid wildfires

By Divya Rajagopal TORONTO (Reuters) - Rio Tinto on Monday said it has initiated a "coordinated shutdown" at the Iron Ore Company of Canada in Newfoundland and Labrador in response to an evacuation

Freeport LNG in Texas to restart one train this week after Hurricane Beryl

By Scott DiSavino and Arathy Somasekhar NEW YORK/HOUSTON (Reuters) - Freeport LNG plans to restart one of three liquefied natural gas trains this week at its Texas facility after the company repairs

China’s northern region on high alert for heavy rainfall, Xinhua reports

(Reuters) - Chinese authorities have placed the country's northern region on high alert for heavy rains and are preparing full emergency measures to mitigate any impact, state news agency Xinhua

Alberta Energy Regulator fines CNRL for violating Environmental Protection and Enhancement Act

(Reuters) - The Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) on Monday imposed a fine on Canadian Natural Resources Limited (CNRL) for violating section 155 of the Environmental Protection and Enhancement Act. CNRL

Floods kill four in Kyrgyzstan, inundate houses in city of Osh

BISHKEK (Reuters) - Floods in southern Kyrgyzstan have killed four people and flooded hundreds of houses in Osh, the central Asian nation's second-biggest city, the emergencies ministry said on Monday

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University townships — India’s chance to build its own version of what America got right

India’s university towns initiative is an opportunity to do something we have never managed at scale: build knowledge ecosystems rather than knowledge silos.

FTA partners drive India’s trade surge as reliance on non-FTA countries dips, says NITI Aayog report

Share of trade with FTA partners rose from 4.6% in 2006 to 28.8% in 2024. India is currently negotiating or advancing agreements with US, Israel, GCC, Canada & Mexico.

Japan overhauls post-World War II pacifist military approach, lifts restrictions on defence exports

Since October last year, Japan PM Sanae Takaichi has planned to increase defence spending target to 2 percent of GDP.

Trump, Netanyahu’s Iran gamble: The regime change rebound

American objectives are unmet. They neither have muscle nor motivation to resume the war. As for Iran, the regime didn’t just survive, it’s now led by more radical individuals.