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Labour leader Keir Starmer detailed plans for a publicly-owned investment vehicle, called Great British Energy, to spearhead funding for green energy projects. (AFP)
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UK Labour pitches new energy policy in election battle

Labour leader Keir Starmer has detailed plans for a publicly-owned "investment vehicle" to spearhead funding for green energy projects.

Oil rigs anchored in the Cromarty Firth, Invergordon (JAne Barlow/PA)
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Starmer rejects claims many jobs at risk due to oil and gas stance

UK Labour party leader, campaigning to be elected, rejects claims not renewing North Sea oil and gas licences would cost thousands of jobs.

Children play near a poster for the uMkhonto weSizwe party in the township Botleng in Delmas, South Africa May 30, 2024. REUTERS/Ihsaan Haffejee
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In South Africa’s coal belt ANC heartland, voters defect en masse

With the ANC on track to get 42% of the vote in the election, the anger in its coal-mining belt hints as to...

A mechanical shovel is seen being used for reclamation activity in an area that had been mined for coal at the Rosebud Mine, Tuesday, May 28, 2024, in Colstrip, Mont. The mine serves a nearby power plant that's become a political flashpoint ahead of the 2024 election after the Biden administration finalized new pollution rules for coal plants. (Larry Mayer/The Billings Gazette via AP)
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‘War on coal’ rhetoric heats up as Biden seeks to curb pollution with election looming

Actions by President Joe Biden's administration could hasten closures of heavily polluting coal power plants and the mines that supply them.

Many voters in Britain’s most rural constituencies are worried about climate change and support net zero and local renewables, polling suggests (Steve Parsons/PA)
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Rural voters back climate action as Labour ahead in countryside

Polls suggest voters in Britain’s most rural constituencies are worried about climate change and support net zero and local renewables.

FILE PHOTO: Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla and owner of X, formerly known as Twitter, gestures as he attends the Viva Technology conference on innovation and startups at the Porte de Versailles exhibition centre in Paris, France, June 16, 2023. REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes/File Photo
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Elon Musk rules out discussions over potential role in Trump presidency

Elon Musk said on Thursday there have not been any talks over a potential advisory role for the billionaire in case former U.S....

FILE PHOTO: Logo of Anglo American is seen on a jacket of an employee of the Los Bronces copper mine, in the outskirts of Santiago, Chile March 14, 2019. REUTERS/Rodrigo Garrido/File Photo
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How a rattled South Africa became Anglo’s best defence against BHP bid

More than half a dozen people, including investors and ex-mining executives, told Reuters that Anglo American was able to rebuff BHP's approaches because...

Pratap Das, 51, a fisherman, casts a fishing net into the Hooghly River on Ghoramara Island in the Sundarbans, West Bengal, India, May 18, 2024. Researchers say as climate change has forced a rise in sea surface temperatures, seasonal, cyclonic storms barrelling in from the Bay of Bengal have become more fierce and frequent, particularly in the last decade. The island's inhabitants were once predominantly dependent on agriculture, with most families farming rice and betel leaves. But cyclones in 2020 and 2021 flooded the fields with water high in saline, leaving the soil barren.       REUTERS/Avijit Ghosh
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For islanders, India’s election is about climate change and survival

Ghoramara residents are fighting to save their homes from disappearing, due to rising sea levels and fierce storms, related to climate change

FILE PHOTO: Elon Musk, Chief Executive Officer of SpaceX and Tesla and owner of X speaks during the Milken Conference 2024 Global Conference Sessions at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., May 6, 2024.  REUTERS/David Swanson/File Photo
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Elon Musk could become policy adviser if Trump wins election, WSJ reports

Donald Trump is considering tapping billionaire Elon Musk as a policy adviser if the Republican presidential candidate reclaims the White House in November's...

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's premiership has been blighted by decades-high inflation. (POOL)
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Falling UK energy bills grab election spotlight

Britain’s energy regulator on Friday announced a fall in household bills from July, catapulting a key cost-of-living issue into the second day of...

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