Rand Seen Getting a Boost From Better South African Power Supply
South Africa’s rolling blackouts have been blamed by strategists as the single biggest factor weighing on the rand.
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Sofyan Amrabat growing frustrated as Man Utd transfer stalls
Manchester United have a deal in place for Fiorentina midfielder Sofyan Amrabat but risk the transfer falling through as they struggle to offload squad players.
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Post-SVB Freeze of Preferred Shares Thawed by High-Profile Deals
The market for new preferred shares in the US is reopening after a near half-year freeze, raising hopes
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Russia's Luna-25 spacecraft enters lunar orbit -space agency
MOSCOW Russia's lunar spacecraft entered the moon's orbit on Wednesday, a major step towards the country's ambition of
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Tencent Says AI Model Coming This Year Is Among China’s Best
Tencent Holdings Ltd. said it plans to unveil a proprietary artificial-intelligence model later this year that it believes
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Tesla Price Cuts Continue Even as Interest Rate Pressure Relents
For months, Elon Musk has pinned much of the blame for Tesla Inc.’s price cuts on central banks.
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Bidens to visit Hawaii on Monday following Maui wildfires
President Joe Biden and first lady Dr. Jill Biden will travel to Hawaii on Monday, the White House announced, as search, rescue and recovery efforts continue following the devastating wildfires there.
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US Housing Starts Advanced in July on Single-Family Construction
New US home construction rose in July on strength in single-family projects amid limited supply in the resale
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LA Galaxy sign veteran striker Billy Sharp on free transfer from Sheffield United
LA Galaxy have confirmed the signing of veteran striker Billy Sharp from Sheffield United.
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Utah man who allegedly threatened Biden and killed by FBI during attempted arrest confronted police with an AR-15 in 2018, report says
Craig Robertson, the Utah man who FBI special agents shot and killed last week while attempting to arrest him for allegedly making threats against President Joe Biden, confronted Provo police in 2018 with an AR-15, according to a report by The Salt Lake Tribune.
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Musk’s Twitter takeover sparks mass exodus of climate experts
Around half of the Twitter users who actively posted about climate and environmental issues have left the social media platform since Elon Musk took over, new research has found, raising concerns over the “troubling implications” of this mass exodus. The research, published in the journal Trends in Ecology & Evolution on Tuesday, says that nearly half of Twitter users who identified as environmentally oriented had ceased being active on the platform. The authors of the study analysed the sample of 380,000 users who tweeted about climate and environment at least once in 15 days. The study found that within six months of take over by Mr Musk, around 47.5 per cent of these users became inactive. For comparison, the researchers also looked at a control group of 458,000 users who tweeted about US politics, and found that only 21 per cent of these users became inactive in the same period. The research took place between December 2022 and May 2023 and was led by Charlotte Chang, assistant professor of biology and environmental analysis at Pomona College. Researchers say this mass exodus shows the changes in Twitter’s ownership and how the platform is run has real-world impact. “Twitter has been the dominant social media platform for diverse environmental interests to communicate and organise around advocacy goals, exchange ideas and research and new opportunities for collaboration,” the authors wrote. “Currently there is nothing on the horizon to replace it, putting at risk robust idea-sharing on topics such as extreme weather disaster responses, preservation of biodiversity and climate change.” The social media giant, now called “X”, has gone through a series of shake-ups and changes since the Tesla founder bought the platform in October 2022. However, the platform has long stood as a vital source for real-time information and public mobilisation. Recent findings suggest that hate speech has increased substantially after the Twitter sale and that engagement increased much more markedly for contentious right-wing actors, the study notes. Researchers say changes since Twitter’s acquisition likely have ripple effects for other user segments as well, such as the climate policy sphere, or future disaster response after extreme weather events. Read More Google is profiting from climate misinformation on YouTube, report finds ‘Propaganda to infect children’s minds’: Climate misinformation textbook mailed to 8,000 US science teachers Fossil fuel lobby waged $4m disinformation campaign during climate summit, report finds
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27 Boston Market restaurants ordered closed in New Jersey for unpaid wages
New Jersey ordered more than two dozen Boston Market locations to close Tuesday because regulators found "multiple violations of workers' rights," including failure to pay wages, and fined the restaurant chain nearly $2.6 million.
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