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...For example, Germany’s Frankfurt School of Finance and Management collaborates with the Université Protestante au Congo in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo....
...Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech by Brian Merchant (Little, Brown and Company) Merchant, who authored a study of the iPhone, The One Device, produces an entertaining analysis...
...Blackstone senior managing director Brian Sauvigne is leaving the firm, DD has confirmed after an earlier Bloomberg report....
...His inquiry takes him deep into the cobalt-mining communities of the Democratic Republic of Congo....
...Sir Brian Urquhart, who was the second person ever recruited to the United Nations and is regarded as the godfather of UN peacekeeping, was both a pragmatic problem solver and a sophisticated diplomat....
...The metals used in batteries typically originate in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Australia and Chile, dug out of open-pit mines or evaporated from desert ponds....
...“If you’re the head of copper-cobalt in the Congo, you know things, you have to,” said a colleague....
...More than 60 per cent of the world’s cobalt comes from the Democratic Republic of Congo, a poor country with a history of corruption, child labour and civil war....
...from the Democratic Republic of Congo, whose use of custom-made upcycled instruments (backed by a very high-tech synthesiser) echoes the trash aesthetic of African artists such as El Anatsui....
...Shares in cobalt producers rallied on Wednesday following news that Glencore, the world’s largest producer, had halted sales at its mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo....
...At least 43 people were killed when terraces collapsed at Glencore’s largest copper and cobalt mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The dead were said to have been mining illegally at the site....
...“The idea that a developing country can take manufacturing from the US and still have access to the US market is not so certain in the new world,” says Brian Coulton, chief economist at Fitch, the rating...
...What was said: Comcast chief executive Brian Roberts said: “This is a great day for Comcast … Sky is a wonderful company with a great platform, tremendous brand and accomplished management team....
...Established in 2003, the EITI has 51 member countries, including large resource-holders such as Kazakhstan, Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo, as well as the UK, Norway and Germany....
...Ms Lagarde reciprocated, saying she had developed an “extraordinary relationship” with Mr Mnuchin in the past 17 months — with top Wall Street executives, from Stephen Schwarzman of Blackstone to Brian Moynihan...
...In 1957, at a meeting in Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo, the World Health Organization officially endorsed MDA....
...This followed a request from Brian Wilson, then a Labour minister, whom he met on a trade mission to Cuba....
...Brian joins us now from a writing retreat near Lake Tahoe. Welcome, Brian. Thanks so much for having me....
...(The top 3 economists: Paul Krugman, Joseph Stiglitz and Erik Brynjolfsson; the top 3 scientists: Neil deGrasse Tyson, Brian Cox, and Richard Dawkins.)...
...So, she suspects, do traumatic experiences — common in Congo-Brazzaville....
...Pérez Patitucci Blade Children of the Light (Mack Avenue) The intense narratives and intimate details that pianist Danilo Pérez, bassist John Patitucci and drummer Brian Blade pack into their debut CD...
...It could spread to troubled neighbours that include South Sudan, Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo and Somalia....
...“I listen to Radiohead and Brian Eno; it took me a long time to understand Macbeth. “But this is a strong Shakespearean story that talks about political corruption....
...Intel’s chief executive, Brian Krzanich, threw the chipmaker’s weight behind wearable technology and the “internet of things” in his opening keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Monday...
...Tomorrow I’ll Be Twenty, a fictionalised account of his childhood in Congo-Brazzaville, is perhaps his best yet....
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