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US identifies $5.4b in potentially fraudulent COVID loans

January 31, 2023

In this file photo taken on May 12, 2020 Healthcare workers wait for patients to be tested at a walk-in COVID-19 testing site in Arlington, Virginia. The White House said on Jan 30, 2023, that the national and public health emergencies declared just as the COVID-19 pandemic took grip three...

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US watchdog identifies $5.4b in potentially fraudulent COVID loans

January 31, 2023

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EU grants 500m euros more in military aid to Ukraine

January 24, 2023

Journalists queue at a bus as they leave the meeting of the 'Ukraine Defense Contact Group' at Ramstein Air Base in Ramstein, Germany, Friday, Jan 20, 2023. Defense leaders are gathering at Ramstein Air Base in Germany Friday to hammer out future military aid to Ukraine, amid ongoing dissent over...

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IMF: Ukraine to require at least $39.5b external financing in 2023

December 25, 2022

A resident pushes his bike on a snow covered street next to destroyed residential buildings in Borodyanka, near Kyiv on Dec 4, 2022. (DIMITAR DILKOFF / AFP) KIEV/MOSCOW - Ukraine will require at least $39.5 billion in external financing next year to keep its economy afloat, the Interfax-Ukraine news agency...

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Bill Gates upbeat on climate innovation, even if 1.5C unlikely

December 20, 2022

Bill Gates, billionaire and co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, gestures as he speaks during a panel sessionon the opening day of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan 22, 2019. (BLOOMBERG) WASHINGTON – When it comes to climate change, Bill Gates considers himself a...

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Ministers near global deal at landmark UN nature talks

December 19, 2022

People take part in a march during COP15, the two-week UN Biodiversity summit in Montreal, Quebec, Canada Dec 10, 2022. (CHRISTINNE MUSCHI / FILE PHOTO / REUTERS) MONTREAL – Negotiators at a UN summit to protect nature were closing in on a new global deal on Sunday that could see...

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Germany’s half-a-trillion dollar energy bazooka may not be enough

December 15, 2022

An employee of Uniper Energy Storage inspects the above-ground facilities of a natural gas storage facility at the Uniper Energy Storage facility in Bierwang, southern Germany on June 10, 2022. (LENNART PREISS / AFP) FRANKFURT - Germany is bleeding cash to keep the lights on. Almost half a trillion dollars,...

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European ministers tackle sharp increase in space funding

November 22, 2022

A photograph shows the European spacecraft JUICE (JUpiter ICy moons Explorer) in a clean room at the ESA (European Space Agency) headquarters in Toulouse, southwestern France, on 5 April, 2022. (LIONEL BONAVENTURE / AFP) PARIS – European ministers are meeting in Paris to negotiate a more than 25 percent funding...

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Climate justice gets harder as world population passes 8 billion

November 15, 2022

In this photograph taken on October 31, 2022, people walk through a crowded commercial street in Chennai. India is projected to see an explosion in its urban population in the coming decades, but its cities already cannot cope and climate change will make living conditions harsher still. (ARUN SANKAR /...

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Farm climate innovation commitments double to $8b

November 12, 2022

Demonstrators shout slogans on Nov 10, 2022 during a protest outside the venue hosting the COP27 climate conference, at the Sharm el-Sheikh International Convention Centre, in Egypt's Red Sea resort city of the same name. (MOHAMMED ABED / AFP) An initiative led by the United States and the United Arab...

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UN report: World falling short on climate adaptation funding

November 4, 2022

This aerial photo taken on Aug 15, 2019, shows icebergs as they float along the eastern cost of Greenland near Kulusuk. (JONATHAN NACKSTRAND / AFP) LONDON - The world is falling far short at rounding up money to help struggling nations adapt to the increasingly dangerous impacts of climate change,...

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UN report: World falling short on funding for climate adaptation

November 3, 2022

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UK reverses bulk of tax-cutting package to calm markets

October 18, 2022

A shopper puts fruit in her basket in a supermarket in London, Aug 17, 2022. (FRANK AUGSTEIN / AP) LONDON - The United Kingdom government on Monday announced a reversal of the bulk of its September tax-cutting measures in yet another emergency action to ensure economic stability and provide confidence...

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Malta spends over 1.6 billion euros on COVID-19 measures

October 6, 2022

People queue outside tents set up for either COVID-19 positive or in quarantine voters to cast their vote in Zejtun on March 26, 2022 during Malta's general election. (PHOTO / AFP) VALLETTA / MOSCOW - Malta has spent more than 1.6 billion euros (US$1.58 billion) on support measures since the COVID-19...

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UK: Truss’s government makes U-turn on tax plan

October 3, 2022

Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Kwasi Kwarteng (left) and Britain's Prime Minister Liz Truss attend the opening day of the annual Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham, central England, on Oct 2, 2022. (OLI SCARFF / AFP) LONDON - The government of British Prime Minister Liz Truss was forced on Monday...

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New UK finance minister seeks end to ‘cycle of stagnation’

September 23, 2022

Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Kwasi Kwarteng arrives in Downing Street in London, Wednesday, Sept 7, 2022 for the first cabinet meeting since Liz Truss was installed as British Prime Minister a day earlier. (ALBERTO PEZZALI / AP) LONDON – New British finance minister Kwasi Kwarteng will detail close to...

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Africa losing up to 15% of GDP growth to climate change, AfDB says

September 14, 2022

A child walks by as women sit in the camp for internally displaced people of Farburo 2 in the village of Adlale, near the city of Gode, Ethiopia, on April 6, 2022. (EDUARDO SOTERAS / AFP) JOHANNESBURG - Africa is losing 5 percent to 15 percent of its per capita...

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EU ministers back 5-billion-euro loan to Ukraine

September 10, 2022

This July 20, 2022 photo shows the Nord Stream 1 Baltic Sea pipeline and the transfer station of the OPAL gas pipeline, the Baltic Sea Pipeline Link, lit by the evening sun in Lubmin, Germany. (MARKUS SCHREIBER / AP) PRAGUE - Finance and economy ministers of the European Union member...

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Toyota to Invest Up to 730 Billion Yen in Japan/U.S. Battery Production

August 31, 2022

TOKYO, Aug 31, 2022 - (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) - Toyota Motor Corporation (Toyota) has decided to invest up to 730 billion yen (approximately $5.6 billion) in Japan and the United States toward supplying automotive batteries for battery electric vehicles (BEVs), for which demand is growing, and aims to begin...

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US state attorneys: CDC lacks authority to set mask rules

August 9, 2022

A sign displays mask wearing information at Penn station in New York on Aug 2, 2021. (KENA BETANCUR / AFP) WASHINGTON / BERLIN - A group of 23 state attorneys general led by Florida told a federal court on Monday that the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lacks the legal...