European military mission set to begin in Greenland

European military personnel were due to begin arriving in Greenland on Thursday, shortly after a meeting between American, Danish and Greenlandic officials in Washington failed to resolve “fundamental disagreement” over the mineral-rich, strategic Arc…

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Hong Kong-based WeLab, which operates two digital banks in Hong Kong and Indonesia, raised $220M in equity and debt from HSBC, Prudential Hong Kong, and others (Denise Wee/Bloomberg)

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Hong Kong-based WeLab, which operates two digital banks in Hong Kong and Indonesia, raised $220M in equity and debt from HSBC, Prudential Hong Kong, and others  —  Hong Kong-based fintech firm WeLab Ltd. has se…

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First global repository of ice cores: How Antarctica scientists are preserving ice samples from melting glaciers; why is it important?

Scientists have opened the world’s first global repository for mountain ice cores in Antarctica to preserve Earth’s atmospheric history as glaciers melt. The Ice Memory Foundation’s frozen sanctuary stores ice cores, acting as time capsules of past cli…

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