ONLINE EXCLUSIVES
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Oct- 2021 -21 October
COP26: DOCUMENT LEAK REVEALS NATIONS LOBBYING TO CHANGE KEY CLIMATE REPORT
A huge leak of documents seen by BBC News shows how countries are trying to change a crucial scientific report on how to tackle climate change. The leak
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20 October
NORTH AMERICA’S BIGGEST CONTAINER PORT FACES RECORD BACKLOG
Approximately 200,000 shipping containers remain on ships off the coast of Los Angeles on Monday as pandemic-related gridlock continues to disrupt various
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20 October
MEGA BRAND ORGANISATIONS PLEDGE ZERO-CARBON SHIPPING BY 2040
Nine big companies including Amazon, Ikea and Unilever have signed up to a pledge to only move cargo on ships using zero-carbon fuel by 2040. They hope
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19 October
JAPAN IS PUZZLING OVER SUDDEN VIRUS SUCCESS
Almost overnight, Japan has become a stunning, and somewhat mysterious, coronavirus success story. Daily new COVID-19 cases have plummeted from a mid
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19 October
SIX WAYS THE UK WILL TACKLE CLIMATE CHANGE
The government is due to announce its plan for how to reduce the UK's carbon emissions, possibly this coming week
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19 October
JUST IN: COLIN POWELL DIES OF COVID-19
CNN: 19th October 2021 Colin Powell, the first Black US secretary of state whose leadership in several Republican administrations helped shape American foreign policy in the last years of the…
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18 October
CHINA’S ECONOMIC GROWTH SLOWS DOWN
BBC: 18 October 2021 China’s economy grew 4.9% in the July to September quarter from a year earlier, the slowest pace in a year and worse than analysts had predicted.…
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18 October
OIL PRICES CLIMB AS POWER GENERATORS STOKE DEMAND
Oil prices hit their highest level in years as demand recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic, boosted by more custom from power generators turning away from
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17 October
THE COVID-19 GAME CHANGER
During the global scramble to secure vaccines, many countries in Asia-Pacific were slow off the mark. This time, they're not making the same mistake. Countries
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16 October
ENERGY CRISIS COULD DERAIL GLOBAL ECONOMY
A world energy crunch is expected to boost oil demand and further stoke inflation, likely slamming the brakes on the global economic recovery, according to a
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