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...As Qatar used its gas riches to snap up trophy assets in the 2000s, he headed the Qatar Investment Authority and was the face of a UK spending spree that took Doha stakes in London’s Shard skyscraper, Chelsea...
...A Financial Times investigation has found that years of western sanctions against the Wagner mercenary group’s founder failed to stop hundreds of millions flowing to Prigozhin from oil, gas, diamond and...
...“It was a fossil fuel COP in different ways,” said Lili Fuhr, director of the fossil economy programme at the Center for International Environmental Law....
...“The major crisis that will be coming is energy security,” says Rashed al Mahmud Titumir, an economist at the University of Dhaka....
...Riyadh-based lawyers Noor Al-Fawzan of Latham & Watkins and Manal Al-Musharaf of White & Case have joined as partners....
...This reflects the country’s desire for new influence, says Ben Cahill, a fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies....
...One girl told Al Jazeera that she was tear-gassed repeatedly....
...EIG appointed Abdulaziz Al-Gudaimi as senior adviser and chair of its Middle East and north Africa operations on Friday....
...More recently, the war in Ukraine and the need to fight climate change have prompted Europeans to focus on both gas supplies and renewable energy....
...Sultan al-Jaber, president-designate of the UN climate summit, hit out at rich countries for failing to support the fund....
...Many western companies have been reluctant to invest in the country, which is still blighted by political instability and sporadic bouts of violence, outside the oil and gas sectors....
...Jaber “has made the point that, for the oil and gas industry, the whole issue is about phasing down”, Adesina said....
...(Morningstar) — How British Gas debt agents break into the homes of the vulnerable. (The Times) — Pimco on yesterday’s Fed meeting....
...“We’re a political football,” al-Qadiri said. “In Lebanon, Hizbollah needs to remind the people that it needs its weapons to defend them....
...However, COP28 president-designate Sultan al-Jaber, who is also the head of the state-owned oil company Adnoc, has been consistent in stressing the need for a reduction of emissions rather than a reduction...
...Jon Alterman, director of the Middle East programme at the Center for International and Strategic Studies, said the announcements from Riyadh on drawing closer to China were not a “course correction”, as...
...Twelve years ago, Khalid al-Falih, then-head of Saudi Aramco and current investment minister, warned that domestic energy demand was expected to rise from about 3.4mn b/d of oil equivalent to about 8.3mn...
...We are keen on this co-operation,” he told the Saudi-owned broadcaster Al-Arabiya on Tuesday night....
...“If you say did we promise more oil it means that we see a shortage in oil,” said Saudi state minister for foreign affairs Adel al-Jubeir....
...Although Malpass later walked back the remark, Al Gore, former vice-president of the US, the bank’s largest shareholder, was among those calling on the Biden administration to fire him....
...versus the Temple Mount, Ramadan versus Passover, which is very dangerous,” said Ibrahim Dalalsha, director of the Horizon Center, a Ramallah think-tank....
...Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple are behind an increase in funding to four of Washington’s most prestigious research groups: the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the Center for a New American...
...They also cemented bilateral ties with a smattering of agreements including a new gas supply deal....
...“Honestly, I think YouTube has six months left in Russia,” said Andrei Soldatov, a senior fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis and co-author of The Red Web....
...But it is not an excitement for China,” said Haenle, now director of the Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy, a think-tank....
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