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Heathrow Airport 'fully operational' after fire shutdown
Heathrow Airport said it was "fully operational" on Saturday but delays and cancellations were expected as Europe's busiest air hub resumed operations after a power station fire caused travel mayhem.
Prospect of copper mine reopening revives tensions in Panama
Piles of copper concentrate from a Canadian-owned mine closed by the Panama courts in 2023 sit on the shores of the Caribbean Sea and are now approved for export, to the dismay of environmentalists. Cobre Panama had produced about 300,000 tons of copper concentrate a year, representing 75 percent of the country's exports and about five percent of its national economic output.
AI startup Perplexity confirms interest to buy TikTok
Artificial intelligence (AI) startup Perplexity on Friday expressed its interest in buying TikTok, which faces a deadline to divest from its Chinese owner or be banned in the United States. A US law has ordered TikTok to divest from its Chinese owner ByteDance or be banned in the United States.
Jaguar looks to woo younger, richer drivers with $160,000 Type 00
Jaguar's ambition to seduce younger, richer drivers was on full display in Paris with a presentation of its newest prototype, the Type 00, which promises all-electric luxury... at a steep price. The Type 00 prototype is equally as colourful: the electric blue version shown off looked like it had come from the set of a "Tron" movie.
United States imports eggs from Korea, Turkey to help ease prices
United States is importing Turkish and South Korean eggs to ease an avian flu-fueled supply crunch that has pushed up prices across the country, Donald Trump's agriculture secretary confirmed Friday. The cost of eggs has skyrocketed due to multiple bird flu outbreaks in the United States, forcing farmers to cull at least 30 million birds and sharply constraining supply.
Trump awards next-generation F-47 fighter jet contract to Boeing
Donald Trump announced Friday that Boeing has been awarded the contract for the Air Force's next-generation stealth fighter plane, which the 47th US president said would be named the F-47.
Heathrow closure could cost millions, disrupt flights for days
Huge travel disruption at London's Heathrow airport caused by a power cut Friday could take several days to remedy and cost millions of pounds, experts estimated. - Several experts estimated that the cost of the incident for the airlines and the airport, which handles some 230,000 passengers a day, would total tens of millions of pounds.
EU tariffs not a deterrent, says Chinese EV maker XPeng
Chinese electric vehicle maker XPeng said Friday that European Union tariffs on EVs made in China have had a "large economic impact" but will not deter the firm's plans to tap European markets. The tariffs are "something we have to deal with... it's a large economic impact," XPeng vice chairman and president Brian Gu said at the opening of a Hong Kong store.
Trump suggests Tesla vandals be jailed in El Salvador
President Donald Trump suggested Friday that people who vandalize Tesla property -- the car brand owned by his billionaire ally Elon Musk -- could be deported to prisons in El Salvador. Attorney General Pam Bondi this week branded vandalism against property owned by Tesla as "domestic terrorism" in a public show of support for Musk.
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