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- India wants to lure Tesla by offering cheaper production costs than China
As part of an effort to boost Indian production capacity the country’s transport minister has made a bold offer to US electric car maker Tesla: the cheapest manufacturing cost in the world, even lower than China. - Arizona professors develop VIRTUAL REALITY program to demonstrate ‘systemic racism’ & ‘microaggressions'Five professors at the University of Arizona have launched a virtual reality project to show what it's like to experience anti-black racism, providing yet another tool to help push academia's social narratives.
- Boeing backs decision to suspend 777s with P&W4000 engines by US and Japan, recommends airlines follow suitBoeing has urged global carriers to temporarily halt flights of its planes with engines similar to that which suffered a catastrophic failure and exploded mid-flight over the US city of Denver at the weekend.
- ‘Unnecessary’: Greece protests Turkey’s deployment of survey vessel in disputed watersGreece’s Foreign Ministry issued a verbal protest to Ankara on Thursday after Turkey’s Navy said it would deploy a research vessel into an area of the Aegean Sea where Greece has competing interests.
- Erdogan tells party faithful Turkey is ready to expand operations in northern Iraq against Kurdish militantsTurkey is set to expand its military operations in northern Iraq against Kurdish militants, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told his AK party supporters on Tuesday, as he chided Western nations for failing to condemn terrorism.
- Merkel admits Germany was too slow to act to stop second surge of Covid, warns of threat from new mutationsChancellor Angela Merkel has said Germany didn’t go far nor fast enough in locking down to prevent a second wave of coronavirus last autumn, and told parliament it is only a matter of time before mutant strains become dominant.
- UAE becomes first Arab nation to successfully foray into deep space as Hope probe reaches MarsThe United Arab Emirates is the first Arab nation to successfully reach Mars as its robotic probe entered orbit above the red planet on Tuesday, beginning a two-year mission to map and detail the Martian climate.
- Canada's oil heartland wants to make US pay for scrapped Keystone XL pipelineAlberta, Canada’s oil heartland, may seek compensation from the United States after newly inaugurated President Joe Biden moved to nix the Keystone XL Pipeline, Bloomberg said on Thursday.
- New UK Covid-19 variant causes more coughing, less impact on taste and smell, government survey revealsThe new highly transmissible Covid-19 variant first detected in the UK is more likely to cause coughing than older strains, but smell and taste seem less affected, new data from the UK Office of National Statistics (ONS) suggests.
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