The Metals Company courts Trump for deep

New York (AFP) – A Canadian deep-sea mining pioneer, The Metals Company, is charting a new course to land the controversial extraction practice’s first commercial contract — by appealing to US President Donald Trump.

Activists and NGOs are concerned about the impact of deep-sea mining, citing the environmental destruction it results in

Author of explosive Meta memoir to star at US Senate hearing

San Francisco (AFP) – The former Facebook employee behind a scathing book about parent company Meta will testify Wednesday before US senators keen to establish whether the social networking giant ever collaborated with the Chinese government.

Meta co-founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has cozied up to US President Donald Trump since the Republican was elected