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Solar Power Expansion Brings Relief to Yemen’s Strained Grid and Offers Hope in the Middle East Energy Scheme

Yemen’s first large-scale solar power facility, the Aden Solar Power Plant, is representing a significant addition to the country’s electricity generation capacity. Operational since July 2024 and fu...

DOE to test cutting-edge mining technologies at four U.S. mines

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has launched a new funding initiative totaling US $95 million known as “Mine of the Future,” aimed at accelerating innovation in mining and mineral processing tech...

Zambia and Tanzania Strengthen Copper Export Routes with Chinese Deal

China, Zambia, and Tanzania have formalized a $1.4 billion agreement to modernize the Tanzania–Zambia Railway Authority (Tazara), a 1,860-kilometre line built in the 1970s with Chinese assistance und...

India accelerates Upper Siang Dam to counter China’s mega hydropower project

India is moving ahead with plans to construct a massive dam in the northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh in response to China’s announcement of a colossal hydropower project upstream in Tibet. The...

Foundation Failure Triggers Building Collapse in Victoria, Gozo

On September 27, 2025, heavy rainfall in Victoria, Gozo, caused the partial collapse of several abandoned buildings along Triq Pawlu Portelli. The foundations gave way, sending the structures crashin...

HS2 Accelerator Expands to Boost Value, Safety, and Productivity

HS2 Ltd has launched the eighth round of its Innovation Accelerator programme, aiming to support the reset of Britain’s largest infrastructure project. The initiative, run in partnership with Connect...

Outburst Flood from Barrier Lake Destroys Highway Bridge in Hualien

Super Typhoon Ragasa delivered extreme rainfall across eastern Taiwan, where a barrier lake that had formed from earlier landslide debris on Matai’an Creek abruptly failed. The outburst flood destroy...

Beneath the Alps: Brenner Base Tunnel Breakthrough Connects Italy and Austria

The Brenner Base Tunnel (BBT), a major European infrastructure project, has reached a landmark breakthrough. For the first time, Italy and Austria are directly connected beneath the Alps through a co...

Panama Canal Advances Plans for LPG Pipeline and Port Terminals

The Panama Canal Authority (ACP) has announced the start of a competitive process to design, build, and operate a new liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) pipeline across the isthmus. The pipeline, expected...

Fast-Track Nuclear: How the UK–US Partnership Accelerates SMRs and Microreactors

The Atlantic Partnership for Advanced Nuclear Energy outlines closer UK–US collaboration to deploy small modular reactors (SMRs) and microreactors at scale. The approach focuses on shared safety asse...

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