Month: January 2021
Saudi Arabia to Cut Extra 1 Million Barrels a Day of Crude
The announcement came after Riyadh had agreed earlier in the day with other big producers to keep their collective output flat. Oil prices soared.
Read MoreEnding regional rift with public embrace, Saudi Arabia and Qatar restore ties
As kingdom hosts Qatari emir at Gulf nations summit, Saudi foreign minister says agreement represents ‘turning of the page on all points of difference’
Read MoreIndian electronics and lifestyle brand Boat raises $100 million from Warburg Pincus
Boat, an electronics and lifestyle startup in India, has raised $100 million in a new financing round that many independent investors termed as the most successful hardware startup story in the world’s second largest internet market. An affiliate of Warburg
Read MoreHow Segment redesigned its core systems to solve an existential scaling crisis
Segment, the startup Twilio bought last fall for $3.2 billion, was just beginning to take off in 2015 when it ran into a scaling problem: It was growing so quickly, the tools it had built to process marketing data on
Read MoreResponding to PM’s lawyers, AG says he pre-approved probes, but not in writing
Mandelblit says written approval not required, in response to claim by attorneys that indictments should be thrown out; Likud: ‘This Proves the prosecution lied’
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Read MoreIsraeli firm helps provide Gaza with clean water – by extracting it from the air
Company owned by Russian-Israeli billionaire Mikhail Mirilashvili has donated two atmospheric water generators that can produce up to 6,000 liters of drinking water per day
Read MoreWHO chief ‘disappointed’ at Chinese delays letting experts in
The head of the World Health Organization said Tuesday that he is “disappointed” that Chinese officials haven’t finalized permissions for the arrival of team of experts into China to examine origins of COVID-19.
Read MoreSouth Korean tanker was boarded by armed Iran Guard forces
Armed Iranian Revolutionary Guard troops stormed a South Korean tanker and forced the ship to change course and travel to Iran, the vessel’s owner said Tuesday, the latest maritime seizure by Tehran amid heightened tensions with the West over its
Read MoreFacial Recognition And Beyond: Journalist Ventures Inside China’s ‘Surveillance State’
Kai Strittmatter says the Chinese state has amassed an astonishing amount of data about its citizens, which it uses to punish people for even minor offenses. His new book is We Have Been Harmonized. (Image credit: Harper Collins)
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- The Trump administration says it will cut EPA staffing to Reagan-era levels – NPR
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