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U.S. retail sales fall as tax refund boost fades

U.S. retail sales unexpectedly declined 0.6% in July, the largest monthly drop since May 2025, reversing a revised 0.2% gain. The report attributes…

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Dangote refinery plans October IPO to broaden Nigerian ownership

Dangote Petroleum Refinery has submitted an application for a roughly $5 billion initial public offering to Nigeria's securities regulator as part of…

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Heatwave fuels wildfires across Europe

A new wave of record heat and exceptional dryness has driven multiple wildfires across France, central England and northern Greece, forcing…

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Supertankers go dark to transit Hormuz and Bab el-Mandeb

Supertankers are prolonging periods of going dark by turning off automatic tracking to move oil through the Strait of Hormuz and the Bab el-Mandeb…

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Pony.ai and Uber plan deployment of 2,000 robotaxis across Europe

Pony.ai and Uber announced an expanded strategic partnership to collaborate on deploying more than 2,000 Pony.ai Robotaxis across Europe, building on…

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Silver Lake in talks to acquire Workday

Silver Lake has held confidential talks in recent months to acquire Workday, a human-resources and financial management software company with a…

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Ancient warming thinned forests, reducing carbon storage

Researchers report that forests thinned dramatically during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum about 56 million years ago after massive volcanic…

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Apple hires Nate Gatten as vice president of government affairs

Apple has appointed Nate Gatten as vice president of government affairs, with his start date on August 31 and a reporting line to Jennifer Newstead…

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Golar signs EPC deal for fourth FLNG vessel

Golar LNG has signed an engineering, procurement and construction agreement with Yantai CIMC Raffles Offshore to build its fourth floating LNG…

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Pakistan names lunar rover Jinnah-1

The Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission officially named Pakistan's first lunar rover Jinnah-1 after a nationwide contest that drew about…

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Antofagasta cuts 2026 copper forecast, earnings rise

Antofagasta's shares fell about 5% in early London trading after the company lowered its 2026 copper output forecast to 625,000–655,000 tonnes…

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German ministers clash over river engineering or restoration

Germany's heat wave has lowered water levels on the Rhine, Danube, Elbe and other rivers, revealing sandbanks and severely disrupting cargo shipping…

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Codelco expects lower copper output this year

Codelco expects to produce less copper this year, according to a person familiar with the matter, as the Chilean state-owned miner grapples with…

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Spain sees total solar eclipse for first time in more than century

A total solar eclipse traveled from the Arctic region of northern Russia, across Greenland and near Iceland, then swept over northern Spain and the…

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AstroRad vest reduces astronaut radiation exposure

A team led by StemRad tested the AstroRad radiation-shielding vest on two instrumented female phantoms aboard NASA's uncrewed Artemis I mission and…

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Astronomers discover new 'black hole star' in early universe

In a Nature paper, astronomers report a striking early-universe object named MoM (Mirage or Miracle)-BH*-1 that combines properties of stars and…

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U.S. to withdraw forces from Iraq by Sept. 30

U.S. forces are on track to complete a full withdrawal from Iraq by Sept. 30, officials said, ending a presence that began with the 2003 invasion…

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US core inflation rises 0.2% in July

US consumer prices showed modest underlying inflation in July, with core CPI (excluding food and energy) up 0.2% month over month and 2.5% year over…

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HD Hyundai chairman to meet Bill Gates on small modular reactors

HD Hyundai chairman Chung Ki-sun plans to meet Bill Gates in Seoul later this week to discuss deepening cooperation on small modular reactors…

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Japanese asset managers launch long-term JGB funds

Asset managers including Mitsubishi UFJ, Daiwa and Amova are offering investment trusts focused on long-dated Japanese government bonds as 30-year…

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Trump-Iran dispute raises oil prices to $87

Oil prices jumped about 5 percent to $87 per barrel after a dispute between President Donald Trump and Iran over reopening the Strait of Hormuz, and…

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Comac C919 begins first international commercial flight

The Comac C919, a narrow-body jet made by the state-owned Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China, will fly from Beijing to Ulaanbaatar on an Air…

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WMO says world saw joint second-warmest July

The World Meteorological Organization reported that July was the joint second-warmest on record, with the Copernicus Climate Change Service placing…

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Riot leases 191 megawatts to Anthropic in $9 billion deal

Bitcoin miner Riot Platform agreed to lease 191 megawatts at its Rockdale, Texas campus to AI developer Anthropic in a 20-year compute deal expected…

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