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Russia earns $98 billion from fuel exports in 100 days of Ukraine war: report
The EU took 61 percent of Russia's fossil fuel exports during the war's first 100 days, worth about 57 billion euros ($60 billion). Some countries have upped their purchases from Moscow, including China, India, the United Arab Emirates and France
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Macron's majority in doubt after first-round of parliament vote
Macron's "Ensemble" (Together) alliance ran neck-and-neck with the left-wing NUPES grouping in Sunday's first round, with the former netting 25.75 percent of the popular vote compared to the latter's 25.66 percent
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Lessons from Henry Ford about today's supply chain mess
Ford bought his own coal mines in Kentucky and Virginia, along with railroads to carry their output to his factories. He amassed a fleet of ships that plied the Great Lakes, bearing a steady supply of iron ore and lumber harvested from Michigan's Upper Peninsula. And he erected an enormous plant outside Detroit on the River Rouge, a complex of factories engineered to handle every stage of turning raw materials into a finished automobile
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NASA plans to join UFO research efforts with 'open mind'
The study would try to scientifically examine identifying available data, ascertain how to best collect future data, and how NASA can use these data to move scientific understanding Unidentified Aerial Phenomena
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Asteroid samples contain 'clues to origin of life': Japan scientists
Pristine material from the asteroid Ryugu was brought back to Earth in 2020 after a six-year mission to the celestial body around 300 million kilometres away
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Federal safety agency expands its investigation of Tesla Autopilot system
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Thursday that it was upgrading its preliminary evaluation of Autopilot to an engineering analysis, a more intensive level of scrutiny that is required before a recall can be ordered
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From Saddam to ISIS: Iraq is still exhuming mass graves
The site near the central shrine city of Najaf is one of many in a country that suffered over four decades of bloody conflict and turmoil. Dictator Saddam Hussein went to war with Iran from 1980 to 1988; next came the 1991 Gulf war over Kuwait; then the 2003 US-led invasion, and most recently the Islamic State group's reign of terror until 2017
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US Capitol riot probe puts Donald Trump at heart of 'attempted coup'
In a prime-time presentation of the findings from a year-long probe, A US congressional panel special committee sought to persuade a divided country of the existence of a deep-rooted and ongoing plot—orchestrated by the former president—to overturn the result of the 2020 election won by Joe Biden
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Old tricks, new crises: How misinformation spreads in the US
Accurate news stories about mass shootings have attracted eyeballs but algorithms have also spurred baseless conspiracy theories from trolls who want to push lies to attract traffic. And thousands have unwittingly shared them on Facebook, Twitter and other sites
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Return-to-office: What bosses lost in the fight against empty offices
Optimism about return-to-office plans, across industries and cities, is slowly abating. In 2021, executives said 50 percent workers would be back in the office five days a week in the future; now that percentage is down to 20, according to a recent survey by Gartner
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What Sheryl Sandberg's exit reveals about women's progress in tech
With the exit of Meta's top executive, Silicon Valley is losing one of its most visible and outspoken female executives, leaving few—some would say zero—similar peers in her wake