Exclusive:Artisanal mining began as small-time ventures. But the 'romantic' era of individual mining has given way to 'large-scale and dangerous' operations run by foreign-controlled criminal syndicates – the President of Ghana, Africa’s second-largest gold producer, told a mining conference in February. A new Reuters analysis can now give an estimate of the scale of gold being smuggled out of Africa every year.
Here’s a thread on the story @Reuters published today by @poppymcp @ReutersRuma and I (with great images by @mponirhossain), on the emerging politics in the world’s largest refugee settlement 1/9 https://reut.rs/2XH5bY6
A former engineer and a Chinese businessman have been charged with economic espionage and conspiring to steal trade secrets from General Electric to benefit China, according to an indictment unsealed by the U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday.
Hollywood has a new suitor in Silicon Valley. Airbnb, the high-flying startup for booking home rentals around the world, has ambitions to develop a slate of original shows to whet customers’ appetite for travel, four people familiar with the matter told Reuters.
None of the Five Eyes intelligence sharing nations will use technology from Huawei in the “sensitive” parts of their telecoms networks, a senior U.S. official said. A British security source said earlier on Wednesday that Britain would allow China’s Huawei access to non-core parts of the 5G network, but block it from all core parts of the system.
Boeing missed sharply-lowered Wall Street estimates for revenue and cashflow in the first quarter and suspended its 2019 outlook, as the world’s largest planemaker continued to suffer from the grounding of its 737 MAX jets.
