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 An all-white giant panda was spotted in China’s Wolong National Nature Reserve. The reserve monitors the panda’s movements and routines through motion-activated cameras. It is thought to be the only albino giant panda in the world. Loading Something is loading. Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you’re on the go. download the app A rare all-white panda was spotted for the first time since 2019 in a Chinese nature reserve earlier this year.Footage captured at the Wolong National Nature Reserve in Sichuan Province shows the panda with a female panda and a cub,…

The Opec+ group was locked in talks over a further cut in oil supplies on Sunday as Saudi Arabia and its allies scrambled to prop up the price, but hesitation from weaker African members of the group raised the prospect that no deal may be reached. Saudi Arabia’s energy minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman, Opec’s de facto leader, is expected to target cutting up to 1mn barrels a day from the market, or about 1 per cent of global supplies, marking the third cut the combined Opec+ group has made since October.But other weaker members including Nigeria and Angola are…

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Global airline industry body International Air Transport Association (IATA) Director General Willie Walsh attends an interview with Reuters in Doha, Qatar, June 19, 2022. Picture taken June 19, 2022. REUTERS/Imad Creidi ISTANBUL (Reuters) – The head of a group representing global airlines renewed pressure on planemakers to speed up plane and parts production on Sunday, warning the delays would curtail airline capacity as demand for air travel nears a full recovery from the pandemic. Willie Walsh, director general of the International Air Transport Association, told Reuters the topic had been raised by “every single one” of…

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: An IndiGo Airlines A320 aircraft is parked on the tarmac at Bengaluru International Airport in Bangalore March 7, 2012. REUTERS/Vivek Prakash/File Photo ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Airbus is closing in on a potentially record deal to sell 500 narrowbody A320-family jets to India’s largest carrier, Indigo, industry sources said on Sunday. The European planemaker has emerged as front-runner for an order eclipsing Air India’s historic provisional purchase of 470 jets in February, the sources said on the sidelines of an airline industry meeting in Istanbul. Airbus and Boeing (NYSE:) are also competing in talks to sell 25…

Source: RawBeautyPixels/AdobeEl Salvador’s adoption of Bitcoin as a legal tender has caused concern among American lawmakers, who are calling for a risk report on the potential impact on bilateral economic relations and law enforcement cooperation. Last month, US Senators Jim Risch and Bob Menendez reintroduced a bipartisan bill requesting a State Department report on El Salvador’s Bitcoin adoption. The bill, dubbed the Accountability for Cryptocurrency in El Salvador (ACES) Act, was initially introduced in February last year.American lawmakers want an analysis of El Salvador’s adoption of Bitcoin and the risks for cybersecurity, economic stability, and democratic governance in the country. In a Foreign Relations Committee blog…

A far-left international group that encourages groups of people to deflate tires on parked sports utility vehicles (SUV) in an effort to combat global warming has expanded its operations to 18 countries.The group, named the Tyre Extinguishers and based in the U.K., has claimed credit for tire-deflating operations in American cities including New York City, Boston, Chicago and San Francisco, and cities in England, Canada, France, Spain, Germany and Italy among others. And most recently, on Thursday, members affiliated with the Tyre Extinguishers conducted an action in Lisbon, Portugal.”Reports coming in of very angry #CarShaggers who are upset they can’t…

Grafner/iStock via Getty Images Stratasys (NASDAQ:SSYS) is likely to reject 3D Systems (NYSE:DDD) ~$18 a share cash and stock takeover offer, according to a Credit Suisse analyst. Given that the Stratasys (SSYS) board turned down a $20.05 per share offer from Nano Dimension (NASDAQ:NNDM) in April, Stratasys would likely also reject the 3D Systems (DDD) bid. Credit Suisse analyst Shannon Cross wrote in a note on Thursday. Stratasys (SSYS) on Thursday said its board plans to “carefully” review the offer. “We believe it will similarly conclude that 3D Systems’ offer undervalues the company,” Cross, who has an outperform rating and…

Global corporates are playing a vital role in the development and scaling of the circular economy. In the fight to curb plastic pollution and advance circular packaging, corporates are stepping up to drive action to innovate new ways to combat waste and to evolve their roles so they can do more. Procter & Gamble PG is one such global corporate that has consistently taken a leadership role in its efforts to address the plastic waste crisis, including playing a foundational role as founding investor of the Circulate Capital Ocean Fund. My respect and partnership with Procter & Gamble actually goes…

Solana-based liquidity staking derivative (LSD) coin Marinade ($MNDE) is up 160% in a continuing weekend pump as general interest in the LSD complex grows. MNDE has risen from $0.03 at the end of Friday trading to $0.08 today, for a 166% gain. Lybra Finance (LBR) sees dramatic retrace – time to buy?Meanwhile Lybra Finance (LBR), which motored to an all time high above $0.05 last week, has also been garnering interest. The Lybra protocol is an interest-bearing stablecoins that leverages stETH. Its price has retraced dramatically from its highs and it is currently trading at $0.01045.Marinade protocol, which has been around since 2021,…

Retired New Jersey doctor William Merlino spent his golden years selling weight-loss drugs online. But the problem was that the pills he sold were made from DNP, or dinitrophenol, a chemical used as a herbicide or wood preservative that is toxic for human consumption, federal prosecutors said. He compounded and pressed the pills himself in his Mays Landing home and when he would take them to a shipping agent to send to customers, who had found him on eBay and Twitter, his hands and face would be covered with a fine yellow dust from the chemical he was working with, according…