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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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Us establishes multinational attack drone task force

The US military announced Task Force Falcon Strike, the first multi-domain, multinational attack drone task force, to operate one-way attack drones…

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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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Putin visits island claimed by Japan

Russian president Vladimir Putin visited the disputed island known in Russia as Iturup and in Japan as Etorofu after attending the final stage of…

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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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Putin threatens seizure of British vessels

Vladimir Putin has threatened to seize British vessels in retaliation for European operations against Russia, according to reporting from a…

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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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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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Five EU states advance plan for African return hubs

Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Denmark and Greece are jointly pushing to create return hubs in Africa to receive migrants who no longer have the…

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Novorossiysk port catches fire after drone attack

Russia's Black Sea port of Novorossiysk caught fire after what the article describes as a massive drone attack, affecting facilities that include…

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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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