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Siemens and Transport for London unveil new Piccadilly line trains
Transport for London (TfL) and Siemens Mobility have unveiled the detailed design of the new generation Tube trains for the Piccadilly line, which will soon be in production to replace the existing 1970s fleet...
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World’s first large-scale fossil-free steel plant
A new industrial initiative in Sweden is looking set to become the world's first large-scale fossil-free steel plant. The H2 Green Steel (H2GS) project will produce steel based on a fossil-free manufacturing process targeting large European OEMs...
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EU looks to US for help covering AstraZeneca vaccine shortfall
The European Commission is to urge the US to allow the export of millions of doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine to the EU as Brussels races to make up the shortfalls that have hindered its inoculation programme...
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Global carbon emissions return to pre-pandemic levels
Global carbon emissions have rebounded to their pre-pandemic levels as industry and the economy seek to get back up-and-running after nearly a year of reduced operations owing to the coronavirus pandemic, according to the latest report from the...
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EU & US to suspend tariffs in long-running Airbus-Boeing feud
The EU and US have agreed to a four-month suspension of punitive tariffs imposed as part of the long-running feud over aircraft subsidies...
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Apple chooses Germany for €1bn semiconductor design factory
US tech giant Apple has chosen Munich as the location of its new 30,000-square metre chip production factory as part of a €1 billion investment in Germany over the next three years...
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Germany to pay €2.4bn compensation for post-Fukushima nuclear shutdown
Germany has agreed to pay four energy companies a total of €2.43 billion for forcing them to shut down their nuclear power stations in the wake of the 2011 Fukushima disaster in Japan...
Top Stories Of The Week: March 8-12
A roundup of this week's top stories