Worldlargest asset manager BlackRock shifts focus onto climate change
BlackRock, the worldlargest asset manager, will make climate change central to its investment decisions going forward.

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Nicola Sturgeon has said Scotland "will get the right to decide our own future" despite Prime Minister Boris Johnson rejecting her plea for a second independence referendum.

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The European Union plans to dedicate a quarter of its budget to tackling climate change and has set up a scheme to shift one trillion euro (£856 billion) in investment towards making the economy more environmentally friendly over the next 10 years.

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Endeavour Mining drops £1.5bn bid for LondonCentamin
A Canadian gold giant has dropped its multibillion-dollar ambitions to take over Centamin, the UKthird-largest gold miner, after a series of major mergers in the sector.

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Fears over bigger eruption as Philippines volcano spews lava into sky
A volcano near the capital of the Philippines has spewed ash and lava into the sky, possibly portending a bigger and more dangerous eruption.

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Search for missing people after bus plunges into sinkhole in China
A bus has plunged into a sinkhole on a city street in north-western China, killing at least six people with four others missing.

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