Aboriginal group seeks $1.1 billion from Western Australia in iron ore claim
MELBOURNE - An Aboriginal group is seeking A$1.8 billion ($1.1 billion) from Western Australia in compensation after the state government allowed Fortescue to mine for iron ore without a land use deal ...
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Battle of Ain Jalut: unraveling first Mongol defeat in Western Asia
To lead the task of subduing the nations in western Asia, he selected his brother, Hulagu Khan. “The Mongols had a decimal system of military organisation, unlike the other mediaeval armies that ...
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The Fertile Crescent, explained
Learn more here. The “Fertile Crescent,” a term coined by University of Chicago Egyptologist James Henry Breasted, refers to a crescent-shaped region in Western Asia. Formed by the Tigris and ...
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Why Asia’s Carbon Emissions Are Erasing Western Progress
But, across Asia Pacific, emissions jumped 4.9%, an increase equivalent to triple the combined decline in the U.S. and EU. This continues a trend that has been ongoing for decades. Consider that ...
Asia’s Wild West nature spurs its fintech surge—but Binance’s CEO thinks Western companies will still have an ‘outsized say’ in the financial system
Richard Teng, CEO of Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, suggested Tuesday that Western firms were going to ...