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United States

World’s Longest Subsea Cable Completed: Meta’s 2Africa Set to Supercharge Connectivity Across Africa

The 2Africa subsea cable system, one of the largest international telecommunications projects ever deployed, has now completed its core network and is fully ope…

Ukraine

Ukraine Agrees to Establish First Agrohub in Africa

Ukraine’s Ministry of Economy, Environment, and Agriculture and Ghana’s Ministry of Food and Agriculture have signed a Memorandum of Understanding t…

Natural Gas

Egypt Selects Hartree Partners for $4 Billion Natural Gas Deal, Deputy Secretary of State Landau Says

Egypt has chosen U.S.-based energy company Hartree Partners to supply natural gas under a framework agreement valued at approximately $4 billion, U.S. Deputy Se…

Saudi Arabia

Saudi PIF, SITE, Microsoft Sign MoU to Explore Delivery of Sovereign-Cloud Services in Kingdom

The Public Investment Fund (PIF) of Saudi Arabia, Saudi Information Technology Company (SITE), and Microsoft (MSFT.O) signed a memorandum of understanding on We…

United States

Nutrien Selects US Site for Potash Terminal

Nutrien (NTR.TO), the world’s leading producer of potash fertilizer, announced on Wednesday that it is advancing plans to construct a new export terminal at Lo…

Metal

Trafigura’s Nyrstar Casts First Antimony at South Australia Plant

Nyrstar, the zinc and lead smelting subsidiary of Trafigura (NYR.BR), announced on Thursday that it has successfully commenced casting antimony metal at a new p…

Metal

Hindustan Zinc Secures Tungsten Mining Licence in Andhra Pradesh, India

Hindustan Zinc, part of the Vedanta Group, has been granted a tungsten mining license in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, marking a key step in its strategy …

United States

US Lifts Tariffs on Most Fertilizer Imports

On Tuesday, the White House announced that key nitrogen and phosphate fertilizers, along with other agricultural products, are exempt from U.S. import tariffs t…

Electric Vehicles

Tesla Gets Permit for Ride-Hailing Service in Arizona

Tesla has received a permit to operate a ride-hailing service in Arizona, the state Department of Transportation announced on Tuesday, marking a step forward in…

Energy Storage Project

CATL, HyperStrong Sign Decade-Long Strategic Pact to Deepen Collaboration in Energy Storage

Chinese energy-storage integrator HyperStrong announced on Nov. 17 that it has entered into a strategic cooperation agreement with CATL, establishing one of the…

Metal

African Rainbow Minerals Considers Papua New Guinea Copper Venture With Newmont Corp

African Rainbow Minerals (ARM) Chairman Patrice Motsepe said on Tuesday that the company is assessing a major copper project in Papua New Guinea in cooperation …

Nuclear Reactor

US Loans Constellation $1 Billion for Three Mile Island Reactor Reboot

The Trump administration announced on Tuesday that it has provided a $1 billion loan to Constellation Energy Corp to restart its nuclear reactor at a Pennsylvan…

South Korea

South Korea Agrees to Join UAE’s Stargate AI Data Centre Project

South Korea announced on Tuesday that it will cooperate with the United Arab Emirates on the U.S.-supported Stargate project, which aims to build a large artifi…

Electric Vehicles

GAC Group, Alibaba Cloud Expand Partnership Into Full-Stack AI

GAC Group and Alibaba Cloud signed a strategic cooperation agreement on November 14 to expand their partnership into comprehensive artificial intelligence appli…

Germany

BASF and ExxonMobil Collaborate on Methane Pyrolysis Technology

BASF (Ludwigshafen, Germany) and ExxonMobil (Houston, Texas) announced on Monday a strategic collaboration to advance methane pyrolysis technology, a step towar…