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Investing.com — South Korean retail investors sold a record amount of -listed shares on Friday as July’s severe market reversal damaged confidence and prompted criticism of President Lee Jae Myung’s government, Bloomberg reported. The Kospi rebounded 18% on Friday but still ended July with a 22% monthly loss, its steepest decline since the global financial crisis. Trading in index constituents was halted four times during the month, setting a record for circuit-breaker suspensions and illustrating the scale of the volatility. Retail traders had invested approximately 78 trillion won ($54.2 billion) in Kospi shares during May and June, encouraged by the…

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From her grandmother’s beautifully restored home in a medieval Italian village, Monica Tommasi, president of Friends of the Earth Italy, is battling wind turbines — literally.German renewable energy group RWE has secured permission to erect seven 200-metre wind turbines in the countryside around Tommasi’s home not far from the picturesque Umbrian town of Orvieto. Along with other local property owners, Tommasi, a transportation engineer, is now fighting to stop a project she says will scar a precious landscape while delivering little reliable power.Though she says she once believed in “the energy fairy tale” of renewables cutting dependence on imported fossil…

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Greater Manchester’s new Mayor Bev Craig has said Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s move to give the regions more power could “change our lives”.The Labour candidate claimed victory in Thursday’s by-election after securing 309,525 votes over Reform’s Sian Astley, who won 157,178.The 41-year-old will succeed Burnham as mayor, after he stood down to run in the Makerfield by-election in June. The pair appeared together at a Labour rally in Manchester after Craig’s election win.Craig said: “For a prime minister two weeks in, to start giving powers out of Whitehall and putting it in the places that can make a difference -…

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One week ago, more than 200 miles above the Earth, a refrigerator-size satellite making its way toward an attempted rescue of NASA’s $500 million Swift gamma-ray observatory suddenly spun out of control. It didn’t look good. The spacecraft, named Link, was rotating on multiple axes, rendering it unable to maintain a reliable communications link with the ground and complicating efforts to arrest the spin. Two of the satellite’s three reaction wheels, used for pointing, also stopped working. Through sporadic radio contact, engineers discovered a problem with some of the spacecraft’s cold gas thrusters used for finer attitude control. The Link…

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Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey has been a lightning rod for controversy ever since the first casting and design reveals, igniting afresh with each new trailer. The film has garnered plenty of well-deserved accolades (and earnings) since its release, and yet somehow the debates rage on between classicists and the general public alike—all this over an adaptation of an epic poem that’s been around since roughly the 8th century BCE. My take: the IMAX scale might be epic, but Nolan gives the story an intimate feel, weaving a captivating, nearly three-hour cinematic spell. While the magic slowly starts to dissipate once…

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