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All Blacks’ Frizell has assault charges dismissed

2:57 AM BST Assault charges against New Zealand flanker Shannon Frizell were formerly dismissed by a Dunedin court on Tuesday after the loose forward...

Flash floods warning as Hurricane Nicholas makes landfall in Texas

Hurricane Nicholas has made landfall along the Texas coast, bringing the threat of up to 20 inches (50cm) of rainfall to parts of the...

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Quick Charge Podcast: September 13, 2021

Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and...

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Solar prices jumped in the second quarter, reversing recent trends, on material costs and supply chain issues

Peter Cade | Stone | Getty Images The solar industry is among many sectors feeling the pinch of higher prices, according to a report...

World

Putin heralds Assad’s win over ‘terrorists’ as they meet in Moscow for first time since 2015

Syrian President Bashar al Assad has met Vladimir Putin in Moscow – their first meeting in the Russian capital since 2015. Mr Putin congratulated...

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Emma Raducanu shines at Met Gala: Britain’s US Open champion joins celebs at fashion fundraiser

Fresh from her US Open victory, British tennis sensation Emma Raducanu has been rubbing shoulders with celebrities at the Met Gala. Raducanu, 18, wore...

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Footprint Project CEO On Helping Ida Victims With Solar & Battery Storage — CleanTechnica Interview

The Footprint Project is here in Louisiana deploying solar and battery storage for some of the hardest-hit areas impacted by Hurricane Ida. I spoke...

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Footprint Project & Rent.Solar Brought Portable Solar Charging Stations To Help Ida Hurricane Victims

Footprint Project, a nonprofit organization based in Minneapolis whose mission is to provide cleaner energy for communities in crisis, recently joined Rent.Solar on a...

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California Readers — Please Vote on the Recall!

A special note here: an election is happening right now in California that has huge ramifications for clean energy and the climate. Just as...

Sports

What we learned from a completely unpredictable US Open

4:00 PM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com NEW YORK — The 2021 US Open is officially in the books, and it ended with titles for Emma...

Technology

Intuit to buy email marketing company Mailchimp for $12 billion in cash and stock

Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Intuit will buy email marketing company Mailchimp for $12 billion in cash and stock, the companies announced...

Politics

COVID vaccine invites for 12 to 15-year-olds in England being sent out next week

The government has accepted the recommendation from the UK’s chief medical officers that children aged 12 to 15 should be offered a first dose...

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Roseto Valfortore: The Example Of Small Villages

Originally published on The Beam. By Emanuela Barbiroglio A hilly landscape with a thousand citizens, kissed by the sun and blown by the wind,...

Missing British actress Tanya Fear has been found, her family confirms

Los Angeles Police Department has confirmed it has been told by its missing persons unit that British actress Tanya Fear has been found alive....

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Eurobike 2021: Here are the top 20 coolest electric bikes we saw at the show!

After skipping a year due to the pandemic, Eurobike 2021 returned to Friedrichshafen, Germany, nearly two years to the day after the previous rendition...

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Op-ed: We have a final opportunity to respond to climate change. Will we take it?

Demonstrators display signs and a banner during a “No Climate, No Deal” march on the White House, in Washington, DC, June 28, 2021. Evelyn...

Sexual assault allegations ‘baseless’, Prince Andrew’s lawyer says in hearing

Prince Andrew’s lawyer has said claims of sexual assault against him are “baseless, unviable and potentially unlawful”. Andrew Brettler represented the Duke of York...

Technology

Apple to announce new iPhones, Apple Watch and AirPods on Tuesday

In this article AAPL Tim Cook Source: Apple Apple is holding its annual iPhone event on Tuesday, the company’s seventh virtual launch in a...

Business

Two-thirds of travel firms plan job cuts when furlough ends, industry body warns

Two-thirds of travel sector employers with staff still on the furlough scheme are planning redundancies once the wage support is removed at the end...

UK records 30,825 new COVID cases and 61 more deaths, daily figures show

The UK has recorded 30,825 new COVID cases and 61 more coronavirus-related deaths in the latest 24-hour period, according to government data. The figures...