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Virgin takes step towards running Channel Tunnel rail services automated-news
Virgin takes step towards running Channel Tunnel rail services

Firm wants to run up to 20 daily journeys to Europe but it must get additional approval for overseas tracks.

17 Aug 2026 🔒
America’s Fatal Attraction to War automated-news
America’s Fatal Attraction to War

The perverse incentives for presidents to use military force.

17 Aug 2026 🔒
German drone maker Helsing enlists Rakuten to broker Japan military deal automated-news
German drone maker Helsing enlists Rakuten to broker Japan military deal

German drone maker Helsing enlists Rakuten to broker Japan military deal

17 Aug 2026 🔒
Trump envoy Kushner arrives in Israel after rare Hamas talks on Gaza peace plan automated-news
Trump envoy Kushner arrives in Israel after rare Hamas talks on Gaza peace plan

US President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner is expected to meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu later on Monday.

17 Aug 2026 🔒
Blanchard’s Lathe and the Long Arc of American Manufacturing automated-news
Blanchard’s Lathe and the Long Arc of American Manufacturing

Emerging from the chaos of supplying the U.S. Army during the War of 1812, the War Department sought to foster domestic production of standardized muskets. Out of this industrial project arose an invention that laid the foundation for automation and mass production. Thomas Blanchard’s copying lathe

17 Aug 2026 🔒
China industrial production slows more than expected in July automated-news
China industrial production slows more than expected in July

China industrial production slows more than expected in July

17 Aug 2026 🔒
Strait of Hormuz shipping grinds to a halt ahead of U.S.-Iran ceasefire expiry automated-news
Strait of Hormuz shipping grinds to a halt ahead of U.S.-Iran ceasefire expiry

Shipping traffic in the Strait of Hormuz sank to a new low as a ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran is set to expire on Monday with no deal in sight.

17 Aug 2026 🔒
Taiwan’s president says record defence spending an investment in peace automated-news
Taiwan’s president says record defence spending an investment in peace

Taiwan’s president says record defence spending an investment in peace

17 Aug 2026 🔒
China's economic growth challenges mount as consumption slips automated-news
China's economic growth challenges mount as consumption slips

China's economic growth challenges mount as consumption slips

17 Aug 2026 🔒
Yahua’s Zimbabwe Lithium-Sulfate Plant to Come Online Next Year automated-news
Yahua’s Zimbabwe Lithium-Sulfate Plant to Come Online Next Year

China’s Sichuan Yahua Industrial Group Co. plans to start operating a $200 million lithium-sulfate plant in Zimbabwe in the second quarter of next year amid a push by the southern African country to reap more value from its natural resources.

17 Aug 2026 🔒
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