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China's President Xi Jinping warned against government over-promising on social welfare amid a push to achieve "common prosperity" by mid-century, while demanding progress on a long-awaited property tax that could help reduce wealth gaps.

South African banks say they have to keep funding at least some coal projects for now because an immediate halt would put huge political and economic strains on a nation that relies on the most polluting of fossil fuels.

The time that we've been dreading is fast approaching. Support for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is coming to a close very soon with the game's final DLC character, Kingdom Hearts' own Sora, being released on October 18. These ...

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison must be wondering which climate criticism to tackle first. Queen Elizabeth II was caught on tape on Thursday calling political leaders uncommitted to attending the COP26 summit in Glasgow “irritating”. Closer to home, Guy Debelle, second-in-command at the Reserve Bank of Australia, warned on the same day of a growing risk that carbon-conscious investors would dump assets in the country.

South Africa's economic woes are being compounded by the theft of massive amounts of copper from state firms Eskom and Transnet, much of which is smuggled overseas, costing the country billions of rand a year, according to market sources.

China's energy crisis deepened on Friday as cold weather swept into much of the country and power plants scrambled to stock up on coal, sending prices of the fuel to record highs.

Silicon and zinc output cuts in Europe due to the power crisis are likely to slow the region's energy transition plans, with producers also weighing relocation of facilities for both the metals used in renewable energy, metal industry sources said.

El Salvador's unfolding experiment as a first-adopter of the crytocurrency bitcoin could be increasingly powered by new streams of renewable energy, the chief of the country's hydroelectric commission told reporters on Friday.

U.S. stocks rose on Friday and the Dow scored its biggest weekly percentage gain since June, as Goldman Sachs rounded out a week of strong quarterly earnings for the big banks.

Australia's Whitehaven Coal posted a 4% drop in its first-quarter saleable coal production on Thursday, hit primarily by a fall in sales from its Narrabri Mine in New South Wales, due to shipping delays amid rough weather conditions.