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By Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO: A 23-year-old Taylor Swift fan died at the singer's Eras Tour concert in Rio de Janeiro Friday night, according to a statement from the show's organizers in Brazil. While the…

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Hamed Aleaziz of The LA Times about his reporting on asylum seekers from majority-Muslim countries getting disproportionately imprisoned in a Texas district. ARI…

Rio Tinto chief executive Jakob Stausholm insists Australia’s big iron ore miners are in a stronger position to ride out any deeper falls in commodity prices, benefitting from lower operating costs than global competitors, as China’s…

Rio Tinto said shareholders would receive an interim dividend of $US1.77 ($2.62) a share for the six months to June 30 – a lower payout than the market was expecting – as underlying earnings fell from $US8.6 billion ($12.7 billion) to…

Elsewhere in Rio Tinto’s operations, the company uses hydroelectricity dams in Canada to make low-carbon aluminium, and it is seeking to scale up its production of a niche zero-carbon aluminium smelting technology through its ELYSIS joint…

The company reported production was slightly down for another key material, copper – a metal in high demand as the world transitions away from carbon-intensive fossil fuels to low-emissions renewable energy.LoadingRio is ramping up copper…

“We have put the energy transition at the heart of our business strategy, and this is one of the ways we’re working towards decarbonising our operations,” Torres said.LoadingDiversified mining companies like Rio use huge amounts of energy…

Article content (Bloomberg) — Miner Rio Tinto Group sees a host of near-term economic challenges in China, including in the country’s real estate industry, but reaffirmed its positive medium- and long-term outlook. Article content “It…

Contract awarded by Bechtel for Main Refrigerant Compressors (MRCs) includes three liquefaction trains, for a total of six Frame 7 gas turbines and 18 centrifugal compressorsTechnology capable of producing a nameplate capacity of…

Article content (Bloomberg) — Rio Tinto Group plans to start building its own batteries at a laboratory in Melbourne later this year to experiment with technologies in the rapidly-growing clean energy sector. Article content The world’s…