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In the salt deserts bordering Pakistan, India builds …

A worker takes an afternoon nap during a lunch break at the construction site of Adani Green Energy Limited's Renewable Energy Park in the salt desert of Karim Shahi village, near Khavda, Bhuj district near the India-Pakistan border in the western state of Gujarat, India, Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023. India is developing a 30 gigawatt hybrid — wind and solar — renewable energy project on one of the largest salt deserts in the world. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

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Stock market today: Asian shares slip ahead of key US …

People stand in front of an electronic stock board showing Japan's Nikkei 225 index at a securities firm Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2023, in Tokyo. Asian shares declined in cautious trading Tuesday ahead of some key reports this week on the U.S. job market that might provide insight into the Federal Reserve’s thinking about interest rates. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

GM’s Cruise robotaxi service faces fine in alleged cover-up …

FILE - Associated Press reporter Michael Liedtke sits in the back of a Cruise driverless taxi that picked him up in San Francisco's Mission District, Feb. 15, 2023. The California regulator that approved the expansion of the Cruise robotaxi fleet owned by automaker General Motors is now threatening to fine the driverless service for covering up the severity of an accident that triggered the suspension of its California license. The potential penalty could be in the range of $1.5 million, based on documents filed Friday, Dec. 1, by the California Public Utilities Commission. (AP Photo/Terry Chea, File)

Alaska Airlines is buying Hawaiian Airlines. Will the …

This combination of photos shows a Hawaiian Airlines plane at Kahalui, Hawaii, March 24, 2005, left, and Alaska Airlines planes March 1, 2021, in Seattle. Alaska Airlines announced Sunday, Dec. 3, 2023, that it will buy Hawaiian Airlines for $1.9 billion. That's raising questions about how antitrust regulators will view the deal, and whether past airline mergers have hurt consumers. (AP Photo/Lucy Pemoni, Ted S. Warren)

US agency to watch unrecalled Takata inflators after one …

FILE - TK Holdings Inc. headquarters is seen, June 25, 2017, in Auburn Hills, Mich. On Monday, Dec. 4, 2023, U.S. auto safety regulators said they are monitoring data from a group of mostly unrecalled Takata air bag inflators after one of them exploded in a BMW and hurled metal fragments that seriously injured a driver in Chicago. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

Former top Ohio utility regulator surrenders in $60 million …

FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Ohio Governor's office shows Sam Randazzo, the former Public Utilities Commissioner of Ohio. Randazzo, Ohio’s former top utility regulator, surrendered Monday, Dec. 4, 2023, in connection with a $60 million bribery scheme related to a legislative bailout for two Ohio nuclear power plants that has already resulted in a 20-year prison sentence for a former state House speaker. (AP Photo/Ohio Governor's office via AP, File)

Bitcoin has surpassed $41,000 for the first time since …

FILE - FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried arrives at Manhattan federal court on Aug. 11, 2023, in New York.(AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)

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Dutch lawyers seek a civil court order to halt the …

Smoke rises following an Israeli bombardment in the Gaza Strip, as seen from southern Israel on Monday, Dec. 4, 2023. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

The death toll from a mining tragedy in South Africa …

This is an undated photograph of Impala Platinum mine shaft 11, provided by Implats on Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2023, near Rustenburg, South Africa. An elevator suddenly dropped around 200 meters (656 feet) while carrying workers to the surface in a platinum mine in South Africa, killing 11 and injuring 75, the mine operator said Tuesday. It happened Monday evening at the end of the workers' shift at a mine in the northern city of Rustenburg. The injured workers were hospitalized. (Implats via AP)

Alaska Air to buy Hawaiian Airlines in a $1.9 billion …

FILE - Alaska Airlines planes are shown parked at gates with Mount Rainier in the background at sunrise, March 1, 2021, at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in Seattle. Alaska Air Group said Sunday, Dec. 3, 2023, that it agreed to buy Hawaiian Airlines in a $1 billion deal. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

Heavy snowfall hits Moscow as Russian media report …

Russian Rosguardia (National Guard) servicemen walk at VDNKh, The Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy during heavy snowfall in Moscow, Russia, Monday, Dec. 4, 2023. A record snowfall has hit Russia's capital bringing an additional 10 cm (3,9 inches) to already high levels of snow and causing disruption at the capital's airports and on roads. (Sergei Kiselev/Moscow News Agency via AP)

Spotify axes 17% of workforce in third round of layoffs …

At UN climate talks, fossil fuel interests have hundreds …

FILE - The Chevron Richmond Refinery operates in Point Richmond, Calif., Oct. 24, 2023. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)

Europe’s world-leading artificial intelligence rules …

File - A portion of Google's Bard website is shown in Glenside, Pa. on March 27, 2023. Negotiators will meet this week to hammer out details of European Union artificial intelligence rules but the process has been bogged down by a simmering last-minute battle over how to govern systems that underpin general purpose AI services like OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Bard chatbot. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)