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...Project44’s founder disclosed the China fund’s investment to WSJ Pro in 2021, and Reuters reported the Boyd investment in 2019....
...I’m joined now by the FT’s Felicia Schwartz, who’s been covering the war. Hi, Felicia. Felicia SchwartzHello....
...This has created a patchwork network of protection alongside Ukraine’s own post-Soviet systems such as the S-300....
...Gideon discusses the history of international humanitarian law since the first world war with Boyd van Dijk, a historian at Oxford university and author of a recent book, Preparing for War - The Making of...
...Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the G7’s plan to begin discussions with Kyiv on long-term security arrangements are a meaningful victory, striking a more positive note a day after criticising...
...Apart from playing with some of London’s prominent jazz musicians, including saxophonist Nubya Garcia, pianist Al MacSween and drummer Moses Boyd, he has so far relied on what he calls his “mum’s test”....
...Additional reporting by Felicia Schwartz...
...Ahead of Title 42’s expiration, the Biden administration on Wednesday published a new rule to force asylum seekers to request protection in safe third countries they pass through....
...“I am tired of the s*** show surrounding who is going to send tanks and when are they going to send them. Putin is trying to rewrite the map of Europe by force of arms....
...US president Joe Biden said he is disappointed in Opec+’s decision to deep production cuts but doesn’t regret his trip to Saudi Arabia over the summer. “The trip was not essentially for oil....
...And The Romantic is the fourth of the “whole-life” novels that Boyd has made his speciality, following 1987’s The New Confessions (the best), 2002’s Any Human Heart (the best-loved) and 2015’s Sweet Caress...
...Additional reporting from Felicia Schwartz...
...“The trajectory of the Ukraine conflict is a matter of profound concern for the entire international community,” said India’s foreign minister S Jaishankar....
...The rebuke came after Saudi Arabia released an extraordinarily detailed and unusual defence of Opec+’s cuts on Wednesday night, in which it argued that the moves had been the result of a unanimous decision...
...Opec+’s decision to cut output “serves the notice that the producers’ alliance will oppose any attempts by a ‘buyers’ cartel’ to lower the oil price”, said analysts at JPMorgan....
...Biden said he had not decided how to respond to Opec+’s announcement. “We are looking at alternatives. We haven’t made up our minds yet,” he said....
...The US took Turkey out of its advanced F-35 fighter jet programme after Erdoğan purchased the Russian S-400 missile defence system....
...The US removed Turkey from its advanced F-35 fighter jet programme and imposed sanctions on its defence industry after Erdoğan purchased a Russian-made S-400 missile defence system, which US officials said...
...Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky had asked Biden to help secure the S-300 system in repeated conversations, the White House said in a statement....
...researcher at Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto, which has tracked the abuse of Pegasus by NSO’s clients, said: “This deal looks bad for national security, bad for human rights, and probably bad for L3’s...
...Futures contracts tracking the blue-chip S&P 500 rose 0.5 per cent today, while the equivalent for the tech-heavy Nasdaq jumped 1 per cent....
...The official confirmed an airstrike at the Dnipro airfield but said the US had no evidence to conclude that the strike damaged the S-300 system provided by Slovakia or any such system....
...Both countries have S-300s, a Soviet system Ukrainians know how to use. Lawmakers from both parties have urged Washington to supply them to Ukraine as Russia presses its offensive there....
...And the US sent a Patriot system to Slovakia, which will be operated by US troops, so that Bratislava could send its S-300 air defence system to Ukraine....
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