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...Bankers and analysts said a further drop in shares would make the company a takeover target for the likes of Glencore or Rio Tinto....
...Armínio Fraga, founder of Gávea Investimentos in Rio de Janeiro and the former governor of Brazil’s central bank, sums up a common view of the family and their resilience: “They take a long-term view and...
...“We’re international — people here have family on both sides of the border,” said Joseph Linck, a former director of the Port of Brownsville. “Everyone wants to go and see grandma — and they can’t....
...Additional reporting by Joseph Cotterill in London and Ahmed Al Omran in Riyadh...
...Brewster visited the Amorim forests in the Herdade de Rio Frio estate in Portugal and was inspired by the potential of cork as a material that could be used more in architecture....
...Final Whistle Botafogo remain top of the Brazilian football league table, for now, but had their advantage over second placed Palmeiras cut from six points to three this week after a ludicrous match in Rio...
...Two other projects that developers had hoped would reach FID by the end of March — Energy Transfer’s Lake Charles conversion and Next Decade’s Rio Grande terminal — have been delayed to later in the year...
...In June, Rio Tinto was forced to suspend mineral sands mining in KwaZulu-Natal after security threats and the murder of a manager....
...“The impact is very grim,” said Cillian O’Donoghue, a director at Eurometaux, an industry group that represents metal producers in the region including Rio Tinto and Glencore....
...Its elegant decor is by Joseph Dirand, whose work I revere. And the view from our table on its verdant terrace had the Eiffel Tower dead centre. But the food. Mon Dieu!...
...A traditional fireworks display at Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana seafront will take place on Friday night, but unlike in past years there will be no live concerts on the beach....
...City veteran Jan du Plessis, the former chair of BT and miner Rio Tinto, has been nominated by the government as the new chair of the UK accounting watchdog, whose board has been without a permanent leader...
...The $100bn target is an “acid test” for whether rich countries are sincere about tackling climate change, says Molwyn Joseph, minister of the environment for Antigua and Barbuda....
...Rio Tinto had previously been stripped of ownership by presidential decree. It hardly mattered that BSGR had no experience of exporting iron ore....
...What’s clear is the sustained growth of cases in recent weeks,” said Marcelo Gomes, a co-ordinator at the Fiocruz Institute in Rio de Janeiro....
...Additional reporting by Joseph Cotterill....
...galleries, the purveyors of grand 20th-century design at increasingly high prices, will not be making the journey (though Mercado Moderno has managed to bring a haul of Brazilian mid-century modernism from Rio...
...Rio owns 74 per cent of the business, which is the biggest taxpayer in KwaZulu-Natal, one of South Africa’s poorest provinces....
...health policies to political ties with some evangelical churches with great damage to the health of Brazilians,” said Eliane Morais Falcão, a scholar of religion and health at the Federal University of Rio...
...“Once again, New Zealand is leading the world”, said Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel laureate in economics, in a video message....
...At the mouth of the Rio Grande river in Texas, three companies in November won federal permission to collectively export more than 37m tonnes a year....
...The country’s rich, meanwhile, exploded in number: Forbes listed 58 Brazilian billionaires last year, headed by banker Joseph Safra with an estimated $19.9bn fortune....
...If the mothballing of Ancine was partly designed to encourage filmmakers to seek support from the likes of Netflix, the streaming giant was unlikely to have felt welcome as a Rio judge ordered the film to...
...Joseph Oughourlian, founder of Amber Capital (pictured), is undeterred. The stakes are high....
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