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...Wurtman of PICO Venture Partners said a crucial aspect was that Israelis still felt welcomed in the Gulf state. “It’s one of the safest places in the world today to be Israeli,” he said....
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...Some arrived to discover their badge was only valid for two days of the 13-day conference....
...Last week, Rosatom announced it had signed nuclear energy “co-operation” agreements with Mali, Burkina Faso and Algeria during the two-day Atomexpo energy conference, held in the Russian city of Sochi....
...“I expect all sessions [of the conference] will address the impact of what is going on not only in the region, but also in Ukraine,” Attias said....
...HSBC’s Noel Quinn arrived on the first day, with more than two dozen staff from various entities attending as part of the UAE group and another 46 invited by other Asian nation delegations....
...Yet the COP28 climate conference in Dubai has delivered a historic and unmistakable message that the global energy system must move away from the use of coal, oil and gas....
...“As we have done since Hamas’ brutal terrorist attack on October seventh, DOD will continue to leverage its collective force posture in the region to deter any state or non-state actor from escalating this...
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...The “global stocktake” agreed here has broken with the shameful inability of previous UN climate conferences to state openly the need to move away from fossil fuels....
...Under the terms of the deal, the first 50 of the roughly 240 hostages held in Gaza would be released in groups of at least 10 a day, staggered over four days....
...This came after an extraordinary intervention by the Kuwaiti head of Opec, the oil cartel dominated by Gulf states, urging members to reject language on fossil fuels at the conference....
...Shipowners are now having to make day-by-day, case-by-case assessments of whether to make the perilous transit....
...These days, their mainland clients instead want their help brokering meetings with deep-pocketed sovereign wealth funds in the Gulf, and particularly Saudi Arabia....
...For François Megret, head of carbon trading at First Abu Dhabi Bank — which is the UAE’s biggest lender, an official partner of the COP28 summit and a backer of Blue Carbon — carbon trading between states...
...countries for climate action, beyond the seed capital of some $420mn pledged on the first days of the summit for a loss and damage fund....
...Its website states that the role of the COP president, who hosts the climate change conference every year, includes “raising ambition to tackle climate change internationally”....
...But, these days, even the supporters of a two-state solution often sound embarrassed to utter the phrase. Understandably....
...US secretary of state Antony Blinken called on Israel to take steps to avoid civilian casualties at a press conference on Thursday with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose newly formed unity government...
...Meanwhile, Gulf state oil producers are fiercely resisting talk of a phaseout — perhaps, it will turn out, successfully....
...Since taking office two years ago, Antony Blinken has tackled some of the most complicated challenges to face a modern US secretary of state, including cleaning up the diplomatic mess after the US’s precipitous...
...The extension of the kingdom’s voluntary 1mn b/d cut was announced by Saudi Arabia’s state press agency....
...Vladimir Putin may have bypassed COP28 on his way to laughter-filled meetings with Gulf state leaders in Abu Dhabi this week, but Gazprom — the Russian state-controlled fossil gas giant — was very much present...
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