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F1 Drama After Whistleblower Accuses FIA President of Shenanigans

The Truth About Cars

According to BBC Sport , Ben Sulayem was said to have intervened to overturn a time penalty issued to Fernando Alonso during the race. As the FIA's vice-president for sport for the Middle East and North Africa, he attended the event in an official capacity and anything he had to say on the matter would have been highly influential.

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Bezos Bucks? Get Ready for Corporate Digital Currency

Cars That Think

With its efforts on Libra, Facebook drew a compelling picture of the plight of those excluded from banking—not only in sub-Saharan Africa but also in South Central Los Angeles and the South Side of Chicago. Netflix is AWS’s largest customer. Not far behind, in terms of monthly spending, are Twitch and LinkedIn.

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Which carmakers are struggling with the UK ZEV mandate targets?

Baua Electric

‘The ZEV mandate risks undermining the business case for manufacturing cars in the UK, and the viability of thousands of jobs and billions of pounds in investment,’ said Guillaume Cartier, Chairperson for the Nissan Africa, Middle East, India, Europe and Oceania (AMIEO) region. ‘We

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We visited the OLA Future Factory: Electric Scooter Manufacturing

Plug In India

I met with Preeti Gupta, a freelancer with the BBC. Latin America, Africa, Australia and US have all got proven Lithium reserves. Since then he has stayed with the same battery. In extreme cold, there is a drop of about 5% in range. But age related range degradation has not been significant. As demand picks up, more sites will open up.

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To Hell With The Grownups. I’m Now With Greta & #FridaysForFuture

Creative Greenius

The first media notice Greta got was from the BBC in September of last year. But I’ve been amazed by the number of people I know who link at me with a blank stare when I mention Greta and the #FridaysForFuture movement that she began last fall in Sweden, they look at me with a blank stare.

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

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“ I don’t think we can sweep aside the fact that our peer group of nations like China, Indonesia, Brazil and South Africa have clearly put down voluntary, unilateral, non-legally binding and quantitative targets ,” Ramesh told the Hindustan Times. “It has implications for us. We can’t run away from it.

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Tragedy Spurred the First Effective Land-Mine Detector

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Detectors were quickly manufactured and shipped to North Africa, where German commander Erwin Rommel had ordered his troops to build a defensive network of land mines and barbed wire that he called the Devils Gardens. To learn more about the history of land mines, I read articles published by the nonprofit APOPO , the BBC , and the U.S.

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