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...It is set to be the most consequential decision the UK foreign secretary Lord David Cameron will take regarding the diplomatic corps, given the implications for the posting if Donald Trump wins the US presidency...
...That gives Beijing a near-monopoly on permanent magnets used in electric vehicles, wind turbines and fighter jets....
...Groups such as General Motors, Volkswagen, Carlsberg and General Mills have announced they would be pausing spending on the platform given the moderation concerns....
...The beauty company’s decision is one sign of far broader unease among advertisers to Twitter and follows a similar decision last week by General Motors....
...“People needed those assurances to buy, because they were hyper aware of [the legal] risk,” said one IP lawyer working on the issues....
...Susan Acland-Hood, the permanent secretary, apologised for the mistake, adding the department had launched a formal review to establish why the errors were not picked up....
...Sullivan said the US had sought assurances from Israel that it would deliver fuel to hospitals....
...The lack of clarity on financing is a big drawback for arms manufacturers, who are reluctant to invest in new production capacity without an assurance of future orders....
...The failure of ridership to recover since the pandemic indicates that the shift in commuting patterns may have become permanent....
...There were fears in the not too distant past of a permanent levelling off in travel demand, but by this point this hypothesis can be set aside....
...Even before the decision, several major advertisers, including General Motors and General Mills, pulled digital advertising spending from the platform....
...Defence experts say that to prevent both sides’ deterrence efforts from destabilising the situation, the US needs to offer its adversary assurances alongside threats....
...Musk faces a battle to persuade large brands such as General Motors, Mondelez, Carlsberg, United Airlines, Volkswagen and General Mills to resume advertising, with Twitter relying on adverts for the majority...
...General Motors said it had “temporarily paused” paid advertising on the platform “as is normal course of business with a significant change in a media platform”, though it would continue to use the site...
...DS: For me, as a citizen, it seemed really obnoxious that I could go to the New York Times in the morning and have some entity make a permanent record of my reading habits. It seemed terribly invasive....
...This year it involved more than 17,600 members of the forces, the most since the US lost permanent access to Clark in 1991....
...Big tech blues (part 1) One annoying thing about journalism is that when you say something stupid it leaves behind a permanent record....
...Vijaya Gadde, Twitter’s head of legal, policy and safety, and general counsel Sean Edgett were also dismissed, one person said. “[T]he bird is freed,” Musk tweeted....
...If you want a second spicy topic, check out the FT piece questioning the spreading B Corp movement....
...My colleague Felicia Schwartz poses an astute qualifier to Biden’s no-limits support for Ukraine by asking how long that will also be true of the US in general....
...“There can be no assurances that TMTG will not also become bankrupt.” 5....
...The US will establish a permanent headquarters for its 5th Army Corps in Poland, send 5,000 additional troops to Romania and increase rotational deployments in the Baltic states, Biden said, as part of efforts...
...Rose Gottemoeller, former deputy secretary-general of Nato, said the alliance had agreed to a “big renewal of its readiness to fight, if need be”....
...Fox and News Corp will also be in focus after reports emerged over the weekend that Rupert Murdoch wants to merge the two media companies....
...Surprisingly, where Musk has called for relaxing moderation rules to move away from permanent bans on the platform, Agrawal is in agreement, the people said....
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