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Elon Musk will buy Twitter for $44 billion
The Tesla boss who has been shoring up finance to make a bid for the micro-blogging platform, will take the company private
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Warren Buffett faces renewed climate change challenge by investors
Investors concerned about climate change have developed an effective playbook for getting companies to set more ambitious goals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions by pressuring, shaming and cajoling executives. But those tactics are not working on Warren Buffett, and critics complain Berkshire's businesses are doing less to cut emissions than similar companies
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Crew of first private flight to ISS head back to Earth
The three businessmen and a former NASA astronaut had spent more than two weeks on the station on a history-making mission organized by startup company Axiom Space
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Will Elon Musk actually end up buying Twitter?
The Twitter board met Sunday morning to 'seriously' discuss Tesla boss's unsolicited $46.5 billion bid to buy the company, after he began lining up financing for his offer last week
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EU President Ursula von der Leyen in India with Ukraine on agenda
von der Leyen meets with PM Narendra Modi on Monday as the latest in a stream of recent diplomatic visitors seeking to lure India away from Russia with pledges of security, defence and energy cooperation
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Ukraine's poorest sow seeds under Russian bombs
Hundreds of residents decided to stay back in the village, though many others fled after two months of war. The last ones to remain are the poorest and most vulnerable, often the oldest, and those whose only riches come from the earth
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EU needs to recycle more to hit green energy goals
The 27-nation EU aims to be "carbon neutral" by 2050, and also wants to wean itself off dependence on Russian oil, coal and gas
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Departing South Korean leader exchanges farewell letters with Kim Jong Un
The South Korean president asked Kim to resume dialogue with the United States to try to end the cycle of tensions caused by North Korea's nuclear weapons development and missile launches, which have led to international sanctions
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'Mariupol is gone', people who escaped describe flight from ruins
Mariupol, a port in Ukraine's south on the Sea of Azov, is a largely Russian-speaking city. Some of the evacuees said they had once been ambivalent about some of the more enthusiastic displays of Ukrainian national pride that have become common throughout the country since 2014, when Russia snatched away the Crimean Peninsula and instigated a separatist war in the east
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Tiny Bronte book, unseen for a century, goes on sale in New York
Smaller than a playing card, the 15-page manuscript dated 1829 is a collection of ten unpublished poems written by a 13-year-old Charlotte Bronte and was last seen in public in November 1916
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Ecotourism giving rare iguanas a sweet tooth and high blood sugar
Northern Bahamian rock iguanas living on the Exuma Islands are so hooked on the tasty tourist treats that they rush to the beaches when they hear boats approaching