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China is beating the US in the battle for energy export dominance
The Asian nation’s exports of clean energy technology hit a record in August, with US$20 billion shipped globally[LONDON] There’s a battle underway to win the energy export market between...
Army sent to battle fire in Namibia tourist hotspot
Namibia says it is sending in helicopters and hundreds of soldiers to battle a fire that has ravaged a third of a key nature reserve.Etosha National Park is one...
Where the Battle Over Free Speech Is Leading Us
When we think of the history of free-speech rights, we tend to think of the Anglo-American legal tradition. A virtue of Dabhoiwala’s book is that it is transnational, and...
“One Battle After Another” Is a Powerhouse of Tenderness and Fury
At a crucial moment in “One Battle After Another,” Paul Thomas Anderson’s electrifying new action thriller, someone cries out, “Who are you?!” A fair question. The man being asked...
California Redistricting Battle Rages As Republicans Try to Block Plan
California Republicans have filed a lawsuit in hopes of halting Governor Gavin Newsom’s plan to fight the Texas GOP’s Trump-ordered gerrymandering with retaliatory redistricting in the Golden State.As Texas...
Gavin Newsom strikes back against Trump in Texas redistricting battle
Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday announced voters in California will have a chance in a special election this fall to greenlight partisan redistricting in response to President Trump’s push...
Singapore’s KPB Biosciences fails in bid to unfreeze assets in US$830 million Novo Nordisk legal battle
[SINGAPORE] Locally headquartered biotech firm KPB Biosciences has failed to set aside a court order for its assets to be frozen, with the Singapore International Commercial Court (SICC) having...
Firefighters battle to prevent reignition of France’s largest wildfire as residents return home
PARIS (AP) — About 1,400 firefighters were deployed on Saturday in France's southern Aude region to prevent the country's largest wildfire in decades from reigniting, as all residents were...
Airtel targets network expansion, mobile money in Safaricom battle
Airtel Africa’s Kenyan arm is accelerating a push to break Safaricom’s dominance in East Africa’s biggest economy, its managing director told Semafor. Kenya’s second-largest telecoms company grew faster than...
Fast-moving French fire kills one as 1,500 battle the blaze
A large and rapidly spreading vegetation fire in southern France has killed a woman who refused to evacuate her home, the local prefecture and a mayor said on Wednesday.The...
