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Studies find global COVID-19 lockdowns have significantly reduced PM2.5 and NO2 pollution, but ozone up

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The week of Chinese New Year holiday is indicated by the red lantern shown inset panels (b) and (h). They found that nitrogen dioxide pollution decreased by an average of 40% over Chinese cities and by 20% to 38% over Western Europe and the United States during the 2020 lockdown, as compared to the same time in 2019. Shi and Brasseur.

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How the Huawei Fight is Changing the Face of 5G

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But it may also signal a de-escalation of the pressure Washington has brought to bear on the Chinese company now that Huawei is on its heels. Huawei has long been regarded as a rogue player in the international telecoms market with deep ties to the Chinese Communist Party. Huawei is slow in fixing their vulnerabilities.

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Saudis Expand Price War Downstream

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Along with acquiring a controlling stake in Korea’s S-Oil, the desert kingdom is commissioning a new refinery in Jizan which would have a capacity of around 400,000 barrels per day when it begins operations in 2017. However, one cannot easily neglect the Indian and Chinese refiners. per barrel while that of Reliance was $8.70

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Opinion: Saudis Could Face An Open Revolt At Next OPEC Meeting

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CME Brent oil futures project continuity: as of August 18, 2015, CME Brent futures projected the price remaining below $60/bbl until June 2017. For Iran, the only other OPEC country for which the IEA provides domestic demand data, the increase in exports, 0.7 percentage points. percent, matched the increased domestic output.

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Twitter Files reveal FBI’s role as “belly button”

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The data included accounts that followed two or more Chinese diplomatic accounts and ended up with a list “nearly 250,000” names long. their work w/r/t Iran). That was in 2017. Taibbi noted that the GEC report appeared to be based on DHS data that was circulated earlier that week. Credit: Matt Taibbi.

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Why Cyberwarfare Is Overhyped

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And a lot of people were asking when the book came out in 2017, “What about cyber war? That is, it doesn’t actually hack into Chinese companies, let’s say, and steal their blueprints. So I think that Russia, North Korea, Iran, they’re the geopolitical peasants, so to speak. What about cyber war?”

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