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FILE PHOTO: A view of the building of Tesla's production plant in Gruenheide outside Berlin, Germany, March 5, 2024, after the site lost power following a suspected arson attack on a nearby pylon. REUTERS/Lisi Niesner/File Photo
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US probes Tesla recall of 2 million vehicles over Autopilot

U.S. auto safety regulators have opened an investigation into Tesla's recall of more than 2 million vehicles to install Autopilot safeguards

FILE PHOTO: A logo for Huawei is seen during the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe hosted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) in Paris, France, March 20, 2024. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier/File Photo
AutomotiveBusinessElectric Vehicles (EVs)News

Huawei’s smart car tech offers automakers route to China sales

Chinese automakers are touting Huawei's Qiankun as the most sophisticated advanced driving assistance system (ADAS) to date

Copper prices have soared about 400 percent in the past 25 years and on Friday topped US$10,000 for the first time in two years (AFP)
Critical MineralsNews

Clean energy drives massive BHP takeover bid

BHP's multi-billion-dollar bid to buy rival Anglo American promises to be the largest mining merger deal in decades

An electric car being charged (John Walton/PA)
ClimateNewsPolitics

Net zero does not mean ‘huge shift’ in everyday lives, top climate adviser says

UK net zero advisor says the idea of a radically different lifestyle has been pushed too hard as he suggests Britain is lagging...

FILE PHOTO: The Swiss National Bank (SNB) building is seen near the Limmat river in Zurich, Switzerland March 23, 2023. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse/File Photo
ClimateEnvironmentNewsOil

Climate groups picket Swiss National Bank’s shareholder meeting

The picket follows a decision by Europe's top human rights court that Bern was not doing enough to protect its citizens from climate...

Lei Jun was mobbed by scores of people at the car show (AFP)
AutomotiveBusinessElectric Vehicles (EVs)NewsTransport

China’s EV execs bullish on Western pressure at Beijing car show

EV executives at a top car show in China were bullish on prospects for growth, despite a gruelling price war and mounting Western...

BHP wants Anglo American's copper mining operations, like this one in Chile (AFP)
BusinessCritical MineralsNews

Miner Anglo American rejects BHP’s $38.8 billion takeover bid

British mining company, Anglo American, has slammed BHP's bid as "highly unattractive" and "opportunistic"

FILE PHOTO: A sign is pictured in front of the Vitol Group trading commodities building in Geneva October 4, 2011. Picture taken October 4, 2011.     REUTERS/File Photo
IndustryNewsOilPolitics

Italy sets conditions for Vitol’s takeover of oil refiner Saras

Oil refiner Saras's controlling shareholder - the Moratti family - said in February it had agreed to sell its stake to energy company...

A turtle entangled in a net (Philipp Kanstinger/University of Exeter/PA)
BiodiversityNews

Conservation efforts lending a helping hand to global biodiversity

Decade-long research into efforts to protect nature around globe shows that conservation work is generally slowing a decline in biodiversity.

The ruins in the middle of Pantabangan Dam in Nueva Ecija province are a tourist draw. The Philippine settlement submerged by the 1970s construction of a hydropower dam has reappeared due to a drought. (AFP)
ClimateHydropowerNewsWeather

Philippine settlement submerged by Pantabangan Dam reappears due to drought

It is the sixth time the nearly 300-year-old settlement has resurfaced since the reservoir was created to provide irrigation water for local farmers...

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