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India woos semiconductor makers in quest to become key player
Currently, the bulk of the world's chip output is limited to places such as Taiwan and the United States, and amid global shortages thwarting supply chains from automobiles to gadgets, India PM Narendra Modi hopes to make the country a key player
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Delhi's burning hill of trash chokes capital's poorest
The blaze on the 60-metre (200-feet) high rubbish hill began Tuesday and lit the night sky up in an apocalyptic orange, belching out noxious black fumes. It was still smouldering Friday, sending grey smog curling skywards as firefighters hosed it with water for a fourth day
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Bitcoin not a panacea for Africa's economic woes: IMF
This week, the Central African Republic adopted bitcoin as its legal tender, becoming the second country in the world after El Salvador to do so
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US tells Taiwan room exists for further progress on chip supplies
Tightness in semiconductor supplies over the past two years have in some cases caused auto and consumer appliance production lines to shut down, and the United States has repeatedly urged Taiwan, as a major chip producer, to do more
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Russia strikes Kyiv during UN chief's visit
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres decried the "absurdity" of war in the 21st century
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Evaluate BP stake in Rosneft: Govt tells state-run energy companies
The call on Indian companies to explore buying the stake in Rosneft came after BP CEO Bernard Looney met Indian oil minister Hardeep Singh Puri in March. While Western nations have imposed sanctions against Russia over the war in Ukraine, India has not explicitly condemned Moscow's actions there
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Musk offloads $4 billion in Tesla shares after Twitter deal
Following these sales, Musk, the world's richest person, holds just over 168 million shares in Tesla, via a trust
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Europe approves new tech laws, US falls further behind
The United States may be the birthplace of the iPhone, Google, and even the so-called metaverse, but global leadership on tech regulations is taking place more than 3,000 miles from Washington, by European leaders who have been able to agree on basic online protections for their 450 million or so citizens of the bloc
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UNSC to examine possible war crimes by Russia
Despite the quick and collective effort to gather evidence in Ukraine, experts say that the formation of war crimes trials and convictions, if they ever occur, could most likely take years
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India's heatwave is disrupting industrial activity
At least three states have scheduled power cuts for factories to manage surging power demands, after the hottest March on record in India
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10 football pitches of pristine rainforest lost per minute in 2021
Researchers calculated that the loss of tropical primary forest in 2021 resulted in the release of 2.5 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, equivalent to the annual fossil fuel emissions of India