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U.K. PM Sunak criticized for pushing back ban on new gas and diesel cars
Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced Wednesday that he is delaying by five years a ban on new gas and diesel cars that had been due to take effect in 2030, watering down climate goals that he said imposed “unacceptable costs” on ordinary people. The move angered green groups, opposition politicians and large chunks of…
Libya floods: 10,000 people feared dead after Derna dams collapse
As many as 10,000 people are missing and feared dead after a storm slammed into Libya, unleashing a devastating surge of floodwaters across the country’s east. A disaster wrought by intense rainfall from Mediterranean storm Daniel intensified when two dams burst — with at least 5,300 people killed in one coastal city and thousands more…
Chinese, Iranian automakers woo Russians after Western brands leave
Transformation Europe Chinese, Iranian automakers woo Russians after Western brands leave | View caption Hide caption The auto market is one of the few areas in Russia where Western sanctions had an immediate effect. Today, Russia’s car industry has been transformed, with new players, foreign and domestic, stepping to the fore. But exhibition organizers say…
Is America’s quest for high-speed trains finally picking up steam?
It’s been more than fifty years since President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the High-Speed Ground Transportation Act into law, lauding the “technological miracles in our transportation” with “one great exception.” In spite of “airplanes which fly three times faster than sound,” America remained stuck with “the same tired and inadequate mass transportation” of decades past. Five…
Morocco earthquake death toll doubles to over 2,000 with even more expected
The powerful earthquake and aftershocks sent people racing from their beds into the streets – and toppled buildings in mountainous villages and ancient cities not built to withstand such force. More than 2,000 people are now confirmed to have died and the toll is expected to rise as rescuers struggled yesterday (Saturday, September 9) to…
Your new car may be a ‘privacy nightmare on wheels’
“Bad news: your car is a spy,” Gizmodo reported, citing new research from the nonprofit Mozilla Foundation that found new cars to be the worst category for privacy of any product it had ever reviewed since 2017. “If your vehicle was made in the last few years, you’re probably driving around in a data-harvesting machine…
Robbery suspect who evaded capture by vehicle, bike, sailboat and kayak arrested
A Vermont armed robbery suspect who police say eluded capture in the past week in a vehicle, on a stolen bike, on foot and in a stolen sailboat was arrested Thursday after he was spotted in a kayak on a river, authorities said. Eric Edson, 52, was wanted on accusations of a robbery of a…
Russian missile attack hits market in Ukraine, 16 dead
A Russian missile crashed into a market in the heart of a Ukrainian city Wednesday, killing at least 17 people in one of the deadliest attacks in months, officials said. The attack on the industrial eastern city of Kostiantynivka came hours after Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in the capital, Kyiv, in a show…
Is Google’s looming monopoly trial a watershed moment for Big Tech?
Given the ubiquitous profile that Google — and its evolved corporate umbrella entity Alphabet — enjoys across multiple industries today, it can be easy to forget that the company whose very name has become synonymous with the act of looking things up online has only been around since 1998. In that time, Google has gone from…