☀️Pricing the new Gold - #Lithium 1. Lithium is not a new discovery, but its applications are. Scientists first discovered lithium as an element in 1817, but it was not until the 1970s that studies into lithium-ion batteries began. #USA#CHINA#EU#ASIA#Africa#lATINaMERCIA
6. Pricing Standard for Lithium -
Benchmark Minerals’ Lithium Price Assessment the world’s most trusted source of lithium price data, regularly referenced in negotiations and increasingly used in supply chain contracts.
7. In addition, Benchmark derives global average prices for both lithium carbonate and lithium hydroxide as well as a lithium chemical index, weighted by volumes traded on the market.
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1. Argentina’s immigration office director Florencia Carignano said that they have launched a judicial investigation into what she called a lucrative business that came with the assurance of Argentinian passports for the Russian parents. #Russia#Argentina#Ukraine#EU
2. Although the idea of birth tourism is not new, since the Russia-Ukraine war, Argentina, where there are no visa requirements for Russians, has emerged as a popular destination for families hoping to give their children the privileges of dual citizenship. #Russia#Argentina
1. Investigators from Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority (GLAA) in its probe identified "more than 50 Indian students as being potential victims of modern slavery and labour abuse over the last 14 months" while working at care homes in North Wales. #UK#WALES#INDIA#STUDENT
2. The investigative agency got a court order against five people of Indian origin who abused these 50 students. GLAA was granted a Slavery and Trafficking Risk Order (STRO) indefinitely against the defendants at Mold Magistrates' Court last week. #UK#WALES#INDIA#STUDENT
🔆US China Balloon Story #Thread 1. The United States on Friday blacklisted six Chinese entities it said were linked to Beijing’s aerospace programs as part of its retaliation over an alleged Chinese spy balloon. #USA#CHINA#ChinaSpyBalloon
2. The U.S. Bureau of Industry and Security said the six entities were being targeted for “their support to China’s military modernization efforts, specifically the People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA) aerospace programs including airships and balloons.” #USA#CHINA#ChinaSpyBalloon
2(B) “The PLA is utilizing High Altitude Balloons (HAB) for intelligence and reconnaissance activities,” it said. #USA#CHINA#ChinaSpyBalloon
🔆Molnupiravir, the oral pill for COVID-19, may actually be driving new, potentially harmful, variants of the virus, according to a Wellcome Trust-funded study at the pre-print stage. #USA#COVID#VACCINE#SARSCoV2#Europe
The news may come as a blow for Merck, the drug’s manufacturer, which reported massive revenues over the last year, and for the #US government, which heavily subsidized the drug’s production and distribution. #USA#COVID#VACCINE#SARSCoV2#Europe medrxiv.org/content/10.110…
Molnupiravir, an antiviral medication that has been widely used against SARS-CoV-2, acts by inducing mutations in the virus genome during replication. Most random mutations are likely to be deleterious to the virus, and many will be lethal. #USA#COVID#VACCINE#SARSCoV2#Europe
2. An intelligence analyst within the Richmond Field Office of the #FBI released in a new finished intelligence product dated January 23, 2023, on Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremists (RMVE) and their interests in “Radical-Traditionalist #Catholics or RTCs. #USA
1. Kirby said during a press briefing that the White House that the object, which was much smaller than the spy balloon shot down last week, was about the size of a car.
2. The “high-altitude object” was brought down Friday afternoon on the northeast portion of Alaska near the Canadian border over water that is frozen, Kirby said during the briefing. It was first seen by officials Thursday evening.