Uranium prices slid lower during the third quarter, sinking from US$85.68 per pound at the start of July to US$81.76 by the end of the September. All in all the energy commodity shed 4.58 percent. While prices briefly fell as low as US$78.83 in late August, for most of the…
The cleantech industry is poised for growth, but the upcoming US election will have implications for its future. The two candidates, former US President Donald Trump and current Vice President Kamala Harris, hold divergent views on climate change, the importance of clean energy and the impact the sector has on…
Delta Air Lines on Friday filed a lawsuit against CrowdStrike in Georgia, accusing the security software vendor of breach of contract and negligence after an outage in July that brought down millions of computers and prompted 7,000 flight cancellations. Other airlines recovered more quickly than Atlanta-based Delta, which said the incident reduced revenue by $380 million and…
Nvidia dethroned Apple as the world’s most valuable company on Friday following a record-setting rally in the stock, powered by insatiable demand for its specialized artificial intelligence chips. Nvidia’s stock market value briefly touched $3.53 trillion, slightly above Apple’s $3.52 trillion, LSEG data showed. Nvidia ended the day up 0.8%, with a…
An Israeli MP behind a bill that would prevent the main UN agency in Gaza and the West Bank from working in Israel has accused the US ambassador in Israel of lobbying opposition leaders to block the move. If the bill passes in the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, this week, it will prohibit any…
In the early hours of Thursday, March 23, 2023, residents in the German town of Kronberg were woken from their sleep by several explosions. Criminals had blown up an ATM located below a block of flats in the town center. The attack caused severe damage to the building and forced…
Bolivia’s former president Evo Morales said his car was fired on in what he claimed was an “assassination attempt” amid simmering political tensions in the South American country. Morales, who was not injured, blamed the government for the attack, which he called a “failure” that adds to the “political defeat…
In a dramatic show of unity, Georgia’s often fractured opposition gathered at the presidential palace in Tbilisi, standing shoulder to shoulder behind the president, Salome Zourabichvili, as she defiantly announced, “I do not recognize these elections. Recognizing them would be tantamount to legitimizing Russia’s takeover of Georgia … We cannot…
A woman who went missing on a solo hike in Australia’s Snowy Mountains was found “dazed and injured” on Sunday, police said, after suffering a suspected snake bite while missing for nearly two weeks. Lovisa Sjoberg, 48, was spotted by rescuers as she walked along a bush trail in Kosciuszko National…
Adam Crapser has become something of a cause celebre for what critics say is a flawed United States law that unfairly leaves tens of thousands of international adoptees in limbo without citizenship. Eight years after he was deported from the US – his home for decades – Crapser was in a Seoul courtroom on Wednesday,…