Almost two years after the U.K. voted to quit the European Union, and barely more than a year before the actual exit is scheduled to happen, an all but leaderless Britain is fumbling its way to disaster. The country needs to find a way to change course. There should be a second referendum as soon as
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At a meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna last September, word spread that Saudi Arabia had identified a handful of countries that could build two nuclear reactors in the kingdom. The U.S. wasn't among them — until Energy Secretary Rick Perry buttonholed the Saudi delegates
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HONG KONG (AP) – HSBC said Tuesday that its annual pretax profits rose by 11 percent on strong earnings from Asia, in the latest sign that the London-based global bank's restructuring to focus even more on the region is reaping further dividends.
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“It really is a necessary and lucrative angle,” said Kevin Tynan, auto analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence. “The strength of this approach is that Otonomo itself doesn't monetize the data, they merely gather, aggregate and process it. And there will be more and more of it as the industry tries to achieve
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The three suppliers who spoke to Bloomberg estimated Congo's artisanal output at 10,000 to 20,000 last year. “It is not in our interest,” Yuma said. “If we really want to benefit from cobalt, we need to progressively move towards economic integration and stop the artisanal production.” Before it's here, it's
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