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September 22, 2025
CLIMATE SCIENCE
What to look for in China and Europe's climate plans



Paris Sept 19, 2025
Dozens of countries are expected to announce new climate targets before the UN COP30 summit in November, but none will be as closely scrutinised as the pledges made by China and the EU. China is the world's largest polluter and strong emissions cuts would have a major impact on warming, while the EU is under pressure to show it remains a global force for climate action. Leaders were supposed to unveil these new commitments months ago to demonstrate the world can put aside divisions over trade an ... read more

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AFRICA NEWS
Chinese firms pay price of jihadist strikes against Mali junta
Abidjan (AFP) Sept 19, 2025
Jihadists allied to Al-Qaeda have launched a blitz of raids on Malian industrial sites run by foreign firms, especially Chinese, as a tactic to undermine the ruling junta. ... more
ENERGY NEWS
EU states agree broad UN emissions target avoiding 'embarrassment'
Brussels, Belgium (AFP) Sept 18, 2025
The EU agreed on a broad emissions-cutting target on Thursday to bring to a UN conference in Brazil, sparing the bloc potential diplomatic embarrassment but risking its reputation as a climate champion. ... more
CIVIL NUCLEAR
French nuclear waste project sparks protest
Mandres-En-Barrois, France (AFP) Sept 20, 2025
A project to build a facility to store highly radioactive nuclear waste in the French countryside drew a protest by hundreds of people on Saturday, with police firing tear gas to break up rowdy demonstrators. ... more
WIND DAILY
Floating wind power sets sail in Japan's energy shift
Goto, Japan (AFP) Sept 21, 2025
Close to a small fishing port in southwestern Japan, the slim white turbines of the country's first commercial-scale floating wind farm glimmer offshore, months before a key project in Tokyo's green-energy strategy begins. ... more
INTERNET SPACE
Google faces major court battles; Amazon faces US trial over alleged Prime tricks
Alexandria, United States (AFP) Sept 22, 2025
Google faces a fresh federal court test on Monday as US government lawyers ask a judge to order the breakup of the search engine giant's ad technology business. ... more
INTERNET SPACE
Meta expands AI glasses line in a bet on the future
Menlo Park, United States (AFP) Sept 18, 2025
Meta showed off new smart glasses on Wednesday as it continued to bank on a lifestyle shift toward blending reality and virtual space despite the efforts inflicting heavy financial losses. ... more
INTERNET SPACE
Trump's $100,000 fee for H-1B visas, a tech industry favourite, concerns India
New Delhi (AFP) Sept 20, 2025
India's leading IT trade body said on Saturday it was concerned by a new annual $100,000 fee that US President Donald Trump ordered for H-1B skilled worker visas, an addition that could have major repercussions for the tech industry where such permits are widespread. ... more
CHIP TECH
Chip-maker Nvidia takes stake in rival Intel
New York (AFP) Sept 18, 2025
Shares in chipmaker Intel skyrocketed on Thursday after AI giant Nvidia announced it would invest $5 billion in its struggling rival. ... more

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TRADE WARS
Markets mixed as traders take stock after Fed-fuelled rally
Hong Kong (AFP) Sept 22, 2025
Stock markets fluctuated Monday as investors took a step back after last week's rally fuelled by the Federal Reserve's interest rate cut. ... more
TRADE WARS
Tariff uncertainty delays World Cup orders for China's merch makers
Yiwu, China (AFP) Sept 19, 2025
Tariff fears are hurting World Cup merchandise orders at Shang Yabing's Chinese knitwear factory, where racks of scarves bear the logos of national teams from Ireland to Tanzania. ... more
CAR TECH
Central Park horse-drawn carriages face ride into the sunset
New York (AFP) Sept 20, 2025
The rights and wrongs of the horse-drawn carriages that carry tourists around New York's Central Park have been loudly debated for years, but the mayor has signalled they may be at the end of the track. ... more
TRADE WARS
Germany passes long-delayed budget with vast new borrowing
Berlin (AFP) Sept 18, 2025
German lawmakers passed a long-delayed 2025 budget on Thursday that will allow extra borrowing to fix infrastructure and beef up the armed forces, as tensions with Russia rise. ... more
TRADE WARS
Five things to know about Indonesia-EU trade agreement
Jakarta (AFP) Sept 22, 2025
Indonesia and the European Union will sign a trade agreement on Tuesday after nearly a decade of negotiations as they seek to mitigate the effects of US President Donald Trump's tariff policy. ... more
OIL AND GAS
Venezuela's Maduro says he wants dialogue with US
Caracas (AFP) Sept 21, 2025
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro rejected US allegations of being a drug trafficker and asked President Donald Trump for dialogue, according to a letter released Sunday by Caracas, as tensions soar between the two countries. ... more
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OIL AND GAS
Venezuela claims 'impregnable' defenses; experts doubtful
Caracas (AFP) Sept 19, 2025
Faced with a major US naval build-up near its waters, Venezuela has flexed its muscle by conducting military exercises, arming civilians and deploying thousands of troops to its land and sea borders. ... more
OIL AND GAS
IEA feels the heat as Washington pushes pro-oil agenda
Paris (AFP) Sept 22, 2025
No stranger to ire from oil-producing nations, the International Energy Agency (IEA) is facing pressure from the Trump administration over its globally-respected reports that predict a dwindling in fossil fuel demand. ... more
TECH SPACE
EU business lobby head says China rare earths snag persists
Beijing (AFP) Sept 17, 2025
European firms still face challenges in securing access to crucial rare earths from China, a business lobby warned Wednesday, despite a July deal to speed up exports. ... more
AFRICA NEWS
Zambian farmers sue Chinese mining firms over toxic spill
Lusaka (AFP) Sept 17, 2025
Almost 200 people affected by a major toxic spill at a northern Zambian mine have filed an $80-billion lawsuit against the Chinese firm that owns the mine, according to legal documents seen by AFP Wednesday. ... more
SHAKE AND BLOW
Philippines 'ghost' flood projects leave residents stranded
Plaridel, Philippines (AFP) Sept 19, 2025
The dike meant to protect the Philippine town cost taxpayers nearly $2 million, but when a minister visited this month he found little more than dirt hastily dumped along the river's banks. ... more
CYBER WARS
China says combating 'malicious' content in two-month social media crackdown
Beijing (AFP) Sept 22, 2025
China's top internet regulator announced Monday a sweeping two-month crackdown on social media, vowing to combat content containing "malicious incitement of conflict" and "negative outlooks on life such as world-weariness". ... more
ROBO SPACE
Top music body says AI firms guilty of 'wilful' copyright theft
Paris (AFP) Sept 19, 2025
AI companies have sucked up the world's entire music catalogue and are guilty of "wilful, commercial-scale copyright infringement", a major music industry group told AFP. ... more
CARBON WORLDS
Boosting solar CO2 conversion with strain tuned perovskite nanowires
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Sep 22, 2025
Researchers at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China have achieved a major advance in solar-driven CO2 conversion by precisely tuning lattice strain in perovskite nanowires. T ... more
ROCKET SCIENCE
Ohio State scientists advance focus on nuclear propulsion
Columbus OH (SPX) Sep 17, 2025
New developments in nuclear thermal propulsion technologies may soon enable advanced space missions to the farthest reaches of the solar system. Leading these advances are researchers at The O ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Mixing neutrinos of colliding neutron stars changes how merger unfolds
University Park PA (SPX) Sep 19, 2025
The collision and merger of two neutron stars - the incredibly dense remnants of collapsed stars - are some of the most energetic events in the universe, producing a variety of signals that can be o ... more
SPACEMART
China launches experimental satellites to enhance mobile space internet
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Sep 17, 2025
China has deployed four experimental satellites into orbit as part of efforts to advance integrated space-based internet capabilities, according to the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp. ... more
ROBO SPACE
Hollywood giants sue Chinese AI firm over copyright infringement
San Francisco, United States (AFP) Sept 16, 2025
Top Hollywood studios filed a federal lawsuit Monday against Chinese artificial intelligence company MiniMax, alleging massive copyright infringement. ... more
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PHYSICS NEWS
Record breaking gravitational waves confirm Hawking theory and reveal giant black hole merger
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Sep 22, 2025
For millions of years, two massive black holes circled each other until, in a split second, they merged at near light speed. The collision unleashed gravitational waves so strong and clear that rese ... more
UAV NEWS
China develops UAV defenses from spoofing detection to covert links and shipboard landing
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Sep 22, 2025
Unmanned aerial vehicles are rapidly advancing as tools for agriculture, logistics, surveillance, and disaster response, yet their reliance on GPS, wireless communications, and complex landing maneu ... more
AEROSPACE
Future aviation study shows path to near zero emissions by 2070
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Sep 22, 2025
The German Aerospace Center (DLR) has released its DEvelopment Pathways for Aviation up to 2070 (DEPA 2070) study, presenting a 50-year outlook on how global aviation could expand while sharply redu ... more
FROTH AND BUBBLE
Fossil fuels harm health from 'cradle to grave': report
Paris (AFP) Sept 15, 2025
The extraction, transportation and burning of planet-heating fossil fuels have a huge impact on people's health that starts before they are born and lasts until they die, a report warned Tuesday. ... more
DEMOCRACY
Trash, mulch and security: All jobs for troops in Washington
Washington (AFP) Sept 15, 2025
From breaking up a fight or identifying a suspected robber to picking up trash and removing graffiti, National Guard forces are on an unusual deployment mixing security and cleanup in the US capital. ... more
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