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...The Wall Street Journal says Brazil’s attempts to reverse deindustrialisation (see here for how Lula is trying to court Chinese manufacturing investment) aren’t working, not least because its protectionist...
...That did not apply to Johnson & Johnson’s $16.6bn takeover of Abiomed. But healthcare deals are typically driven by intellectual property, in this case a heart pump....
...Efforts to reach Johnson were unsuccessful....
...Johnson lasted less than a term as prime minister despite his 80-seat majority and Five Star faces decimation in Sunday’s Italian election, while Bolsonaro will probably lose to leftist Lula next month....
...Joe Biden’s claim to presidential greatness Like Harry Truman and Lyndon Johnson, Joe Biden is an underestimated former vice-president who is excelling in the Oval Office....
...Lula’s return | Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s journey from a jail cell four years ago to winning the highest office in Brazil for a third time is a political comeback story like few others....
...Monday Argentina, Brazil’s Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva begins his first state visit since becoming president again, meeting his Argentine counterpart Alberto Fernández France, annual year ahead address by...
...Rancour grows in contest to replace Boris Johnson Britain’s foreign secretary Liz Truss has become the latest high profile entrant in the contest to replace Boris Johnson, taking the total number of candidates...
...Meanwhile, former UK prime minister Boris Johnson said Britain did not have the financial resources to pay “reparations” to low-income countries affected by climate change....
...Many environmental advocates would welcome Lula’s return, remembering signs of progress in tackling deforestation during his presidency....
...IBM, Netflix, Johnson & Johnson and Philip Morris were among the companies to warn last week that the strengthening dollar could weaken revenues in the coming months....
...Pilita Clark Will the UK’s Boris Johnson face a no-confidence vote from his MPs? Yes, probably. Johnson has been written off many times before and in September seemed untouchable....
...Boris Johnson, who chairs the G7, will lead calls today for the US president to negotiate with the Taliban for an extension to the American deadline....
...There are also questions about the role played by a company that acted as intermediary and why the contract was signed ahead of deals with Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson’s pharma division Janssen, even though...
...(FT) Coronavirus digest The US has crafted a plan with Japan, India and Australia to provide 1bn doses of Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine to south-east Asian nations in a bid to counter Chinese influence...
...(FT) Lula da Silva’s graft convictions quashed A supreme court judge in Brazil has annulled the graft convictions of former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva....
...(FT) Coronavirus digest The US intends to buy a further 100m doses of Johnson & Johnson’s coronavirus vaccine for delivery later this year....
...A recent Poder360 poll showed him holding a 14-point lead over his nearest challenger, former leftist president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, for the next presidential election in 2022....
...Although Boris Johnson triumphed in the general election, a large part of his Brexit approach has been dictated by Mr Farage....
...He was subsequently forced to leave and moved on to Mexico and later Brazil, where he was granted asylum by Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in 2010....
...(FT, Bloomberg) UK election update Boris Johnson vowed to take Britain out of the EU “by the end of January”, dashing Tory Brexiters’ hopes of a swift withdrawal following the December 12 poll....
...Before Mr Pompeo had even presented the plan, UK foreign secretary Boris Johnson slammed it as unworkable....
...But, argues Andrew Edgcliffe-Johnson, corporate America’s leaders have remained oddly reticent on an issue that threatens their cost bases and supply chains: Mr Trump’s stoking of a possible trade war with...
...Their first case involves the death of an It Girl model called Lula Landry (Elarica Johnson), the adopted child of a well-to-do family, who apparently committed suicide....
...The clock has been ticking on Boris Johnson for years, perhaps since he became London mayor in 2008 and certainly since the EU referendum....
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