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China adds teeth to clean energy targets

Bloomberg China boosted its clean energy targets for 2020 and said it would for the first time formally monitor whether provinces meet their goals or not. Nationwide, the country is targeting 28.2% of electricity generation to come from renewable sources, up 0.3 percentage points from last year, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) said. Non-hydro sources are expected to ...

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Trump’s Antifa threat is a threat to free speech

President Donald Trump tweeted that the executive branch will designate Antifa as a “terrorist organisation,” apparently in an attempt to pin blame for the weekend’s violent protests on the loose collection of far-left activists. The president’s announcement was characteristically unclear. Federal law says that if the Secretary of State designates a group as a foreign terrorist organisation, then materially supporting ...

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UK’s virus quarantine won’t fly

Just as coronavirus infections weaken, European countries lift foreign travel restrictions and people gear up for the possibility that we might actually get on an airplane again, one of the world’s largest tourism markets is effectively shutting down. Under rules to be finalised on Tuesday, anyone arriving in the UK from June 8, including returning Britons, will have to quarantine ...

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