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Volta Trucks picks former Austrian MAN plant to build trucks
By Nick Carey LONDON (Reuters) - Electric truck startup Volta Trucks said on Wednesday its first trucks will be made under contract starting late 2022 at a former MAN truck plant in Austria by Steyr A...
Sep 07, 2021
Motor insurer Marshmallow becomes first Black-founded UK unicorn
LONDON (Reuters) - Digital motor insurer Marshmallow has raised $85 million from investors, valuing it at more than $1.25 billion and making it the first British Black-founded unicorn, the company sai...
Sep 07, 2021
Factbox-A glimpse under the hood of El Salvador’s bitcoin experiment
By Anthony Esposito and Nelson Renteria SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - El Salvador on Tuesday rolled out cryptocurrency bitcoin as legal tender, an unprecedented move that faced some technical hiccups on it...
Sep 07, 2021
Biden says he is sure China will try to work out arrangement with Taliban
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden said on Tuesday he was certain China would try to work out an arrangement with the Taliban after they seized power in Afghanistan on Aug. 15. Asked if h...
Sep 07, 2021
Oxbotica to develop multi-purpose self-driving vehicle with AppliedEV
By Nick Carey LONDON (Reuters) - Self-driving software startup Oxbotica said on Wednesday it has teamed up AppliedEV to develop a fully autonomous multi-purpose vehicle that could be suitable for a va...
Sep 07, 2021
Investors call for private firms to disclose more environmental data
By Simon Jessop LONDON (Reuters) - Investors managing $2.3 trillion in assets on Wednesday called for more than 1,000 private companies to provide environmental data through non-profit disclosure plat...
Sep 07, 2021
Factbox-Paris Nov. 2015 attacks: key facts about the trial
PARIS (Reuters) - Twenty people go on trial in Paris on Wednesday suspected of involvement in a jihadist assault on Nov. 13, 2015, the most deadly attack ever seen in peacetime France, in which 130 we...
Sep 07, 2021
Security high in Paris as 2015 jihadist attacks trial begins
By Ingrid Melander PARIS (Reuters) - A trial of unprecedented scale starts under high security on Wednesday to judge 20 men suspected of involvement in a jihadist rampage across Paris on Nov. 13, 2015...
Sep 07, 2021
Explainer-Stronger storms test aging U.S. offshore oil facilities
By Marianna Parraga HOUSTON (Reuters) - Stronger hurricanes threatening the U.S. Gulf Coast energy hub are elevating the risks of oil spills from damage to area refineries, oil platforms and subsea pi...
Sep 07, 2021
Asia eyes Australia blueprint as $100 billion oil, gas clean-up looms
By Sonali Paul MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Australia has passed legislation that could set a precedent for who pays to clean up the fossil fuel industry in Asia, making former owners of oil and gas fields r...
Sep 07, 2021
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