By Giselda Vagnoni
ROME, Aug 22 (Reuters) - The Vatican will build a roughly €100 million ($117 million) renewable energy plant that could power the Holy See within two years via a system combining solar power and agriculture, sources involved in discussions on the project said.
The agrivoltaic plant is expected to have a capacity of 80 to 90 megawatts, making it one of Italy's largest such installations, the sources added. In such... (continue reading...)
SEOUL, Aug 22 (Reuters) - A South Korean container ship sets sail on Saturday for Europe via the Arctic in the nation's first commercial voyage on the route to test its viability, with the hope of turning the southeastern port of Busan into a global maritime hub.
The PanStar Acro will sail north, hugging eastern Russia's Kamchatka peninsula, cross the Bering Sea, and take the Northern Sea Route, stopping in Felixstowe in Britain, Rotterdam in the... (continue reading...)
BEIJING, Aug 22 (Reuters) - It’s been called the Robot Olympics. But unlike the human Olympics, Team China is collecting almost all the medals.
Over the past decade, robotic competitions in China have provided a window into the advances of a now-surging sector – and the importance of its success as a strategic industry singled out by President Xi Jinping.
Once a curiosity organized by academic teams and hobbyists, China’s robot games have... (continue reading...)
By Humeyra Pamuk, Andrea Shalal and Steve Holland
WASHINGTON, Aug 22 (Reuters) - With the Iran war now at a costly standoff and crises from Ukraine to Gaza still unresolved, President Donald Trump's ambitious foreign policy agenda appears stuck as he heads into November's midterm elections.
The setbacks are striking for a president who returned to office last year promising to be a "peacemaker" and made resolving international conflicts a... (continue reading...)
By Menna AlaaElDin and Kanishka Singh
CAIRO/WASHINGTON, Aug 22 (Reuters) - The United States and Iran exchanged defiant messages ahead of Monday's scheduled announcement of new U.S. economic sanctions that could impact the Islamic Republic and Tehran's most important trading partners including China.
As the war neared six months old, the two sides were not exchanging fire but also not pursuing peace talks. All the while, oil shipments... (continue reading...)
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