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Good morning, Quartz readers!Here’s what you need to knowThe US is back in the Paris Climate Agreement… It was one of the first executive or...

As the US takes steps to restore a full rare earths supply chain onto American soil, a Chinese rare earths giant is embedding itself more de...

Why did the Texas electric grid crash from a winter storm that would have been unremarkable a few hundred miles north? The answer is largely...

The Covid-19 pandemic turned out pretty advantageous for Apple in India.In the last quarter of 2020, iPhone sales in the world’s second-larg...

Concerns have been raised that African countries may struggle to effectively deploy Covid-19 vaccines at the unprecedented scale needed to c...

At one level, this week’s media showdown in Australia pitted the government, batting for journalism, against the gatekeepers of the internet...

In the absence of efficient waste management systems, India is grappling with a mammoth garbage problem. Thousands of tonnes of untreated an...

Since the beginning of the pandemic, Covid-19 has been a great highlighter of inequality. While anyone regardless of wealth, gender, nationa...

Hedge fund boss Ken Griffin is more than a little paranoid. He’s been panned by reporters for the barrage of security checks needed to get t...

E-commerce sales have been a bright spot for US retailers, rising nearly 30% in the last three months of 2020. But it means more people are...

CBS is not going to stop until CSI or NCIS has invaded every US state.The network is developing a fourth series in its NCIS franchise, Deadl...

A robotic exploration mission sent by NASA will attempt to land on the Martian surface later today (tune in to watch starting at 2:15 US eas...

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Good morning, Quartz readers!Here’s what you need to knowThe US braces for more storms… Another round of snow and sleet is expected to hit t...

Despite experiencing substantial growth in internet users in the last decade, Zimbabwe, a country of 14.7 million, still suffers from underu...

New variants of SARS-CoV-2 have now evaded New Zealand’s border protections twice to spread into the community.In the most recent outbreak,...

When India went into lockdown in March 2020, the fear of Covid-19 swiftly spreading through a densely populated country of 1.3 billion peopl...

For the past two months, tens of thousands of Indian farmers have been camped on the border of Delhi, protesting against the new agriculture...

After Rihanna and Greta Thunberg, India’s protesting farmers have now found support from over 70 activist organisations in the US.On Feb. 16...

Spare a thought for Rishi Sunak. When he became the UK’s chancellor of the exchequer in Feb. 2020, he was known to be a deficit hawk, keen t...

The Hong Kong government today granted emergency use authorization to Chinese drugmaker Sinovac’s Covid-19 vaccine, making it the city’s sec...

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Rolling blackouts that left millions in Texas without power this week were the result of a perfect storm—and not just the one that sent temp...

Rush Limbaugh, the American conservative political commentator and radio personality, died today at 70 from lung cancer.Best known for his l...

Not so long ago, Gucci was the shining star in the constellation of brands owned by Kering, the French luxury group. Sales had gone up like...