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Strikes across Portuguese National Health Service over pay, conditions and staffing including one-day national strike of GPs and pharmacists; electricity workers in Lebanon join indefinite four-month-long public sector pay strike; Nigerian doctors at University College Hospital begin three-week strike over colleagues’ wages unpaid for three months
As the UK works to secure critical minerals supply from around the world, UK Minister of State for Industry in the Department for Business and Trade
Botswana Diamonds has been granted a five-year prospecting permit in South Africa on property holding a cluster of kimberlites.
The International Air Transport Association is forecasting that global airlines will earn a collective $9.8-billion in profit this year, which is double its previous estimate published in December. In a speech this month, director-general Willie Walsh indicated that the increase was attributable to a post-pandemic surge in flying in North America and Europe, driving up ticket prices. However, he also warned that margins remained “wafer thin”.
The project entails the construction of an electric vehicle battery plant that will produce about 40 GWh/y.