US and Indonesia finalise deal to cut tariffs to 19%

Plans for a groundbreaking rare earths refinery in East Yorkshire have been abandoned, after the company behind the project decided to seek investment in the United States instead. Pensana has spent the past seven years developing a rare earths mine in Angola. The $268m (£185m) project, one of the largest of its kind in the…

The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a non-profit that promotes people’s rights on the internet, said the ad used something “heartfelt” as a disguise for a feature that previewed “a world where biometric identification could be unleashed from consumer devices to identify, track, and locate anything — human, pet, and otherwise”.

A landmark deal to cut global shipping emissions has been abandoned after Saudi Arabia and the US succeeded in ending the talks. More than 100 countries had gathered in London to approve a deal first agreed in April, which would have seen shipping become the world’s first industry to adopt internationally mandated targets to reduce…