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EU countries seek to weaken livestock emission limits

By Kate Abnett BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union countries agreed on Thursday to try to reduce the number of farms covered by proposed rules to cut pollution and greenhouse gas emissions from

EU announces plans to lead green industrial revolution

By Philip Blenkinsop BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The European Commission presented the centrepieces of a strategy on Thursday to ensure its industry can compete with the United States and China in making

Rising bottled water consumption signals safe drinking water goal is under threat, says U.N. think tank

By Gloria Dickie (Reuters) - Surging global bottled water consumption reflects the failure by governments to improve public water supplies which is putting the U.N. sustainable development goal of

Factbox-What’s in the EU’s green industrial plan?

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission laid out its green industrial plan on Thursday, designed to ensure that Europe is a leading producer of clean technologies and not just a global

Thailand rushes to avert spill after accident on oil storage ship

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Authorities in Thailand on Thursday were working to avert a leak from a storage vessel carrying 400,000 barrels of crude oil. One crew member was killed after seawater entered the

Shell rules out more ambitious goal for end-user emissions

By Ron Bousso and Shadia Nasralla LONDON (Reuters) - Shell has ruled out setting targets to cut emissions in absolute terms from customers' use of its products, the company's chair said in a report

EU unveils plans to lead in green industrial revolution

By Philip Blenkinsop BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The European Commission presented one of the centrepieces of its strategy on Thursday to ensure its industry can compete with the United States and China in

In a first, Brazil’s Vale scrubs coal from iron ore pellets

By Marta Nogueira RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazilian miner Vale produced iron ore pellets on an industrial scale for the first time without adding coal, company executives told Reuters on Wednesday,

Austria not rowing back support for EU’s car CO2 law, minister says

By Bart H. Meijer and Kate Abnett BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Austria has already supported the European Union's agreement on a law to phase out new sales of CO2-emitting cars from 2035, and sees no reason

BNSF says train carrying corn syrup derailed in Arizona

(Reuters) - BNSF Railway confirmed on Thursday that a train carrying corn syrup derailed near Topock in western Arizona close to the California border on Wednesday, with preliminary reports indicating

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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.