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...Responding to the plea agreement reached with the US Department of Justice last week, Weir said “these historical incidents do not reflect Trafigura’s values nor the conduct we expect from every employee...
...Under the terms of the US plea deal, Gunvor, which made record profits of $2.4bn in 2022, will pay a fine of $374mn and forfeit $287mn in earnings....
...It starts with a father’s plea to bring home a child held hostage — which in Wilson’s clean translation prickles the skin with its relevance this week....
...The political winds have changed,” said Bruna Santos, director of the Brazil Institute at the Wilson Center, a US think-tank....
...Repetition is key, allowing the audience to observe the different responses to Virginia’s plea for emotional reassurance....
...Cynthia Arnson, distinguished fellow on Latin America at the Wilson Center in Washington, said the region had “quickly shifted focus from the atrocities committed by Hamas to the pummelling of Gaza....
...Richard Wilson, Interactive Investor chief executive, noted that the current level of stamp duty could push private investors into buying more risky derivative products such as contracts for difference where...
...After entering his not-guilty plea earlier this week, Trump attacked Smith’s motivations and character in a defiant speech....
...Rishi Sunak has rejected pleas from business to open the taps on immigration to fill holes in the labour market, in favour of a big push to tackle economic inactivity in Britain....
...And — perhaps unsurprisingly — the conference featured pleas from some local business leaders for the government to keep supporting fossil fuels....
...“These witnesses are describing the stuff that you see in gangster-type movies,” said Andrew Rudman, director of the Wilson Center’s Mexico Institute....
...Their plea was given short shrift....
...Seemingly nothing can coax cartel leader Saudi Arabia to ramp up faster: not visits from US president Joe Biden or the UK prime minister, not pleas from the International Energy Agency....
...On the full consequences of an insectless world, Goulson invokes the eloquence of the American naturalist EO Wilson: “If all mankind were to disappear,” he wrote, “the world would regenerate back to the...
...Harold Wilson bravely rejected repeated pleas to send British forces to Vietnam....
...Nor are emails as successful as they used to be in targeting voters, according to Eric Wilson, a Republican digital strategist. “People’s email inboxes are absolutely flooded....
...As part of a plea bargain, Mr Lozoya has in turn implicated three ex-presidents, four former finance ministers, two presidential challengers, two state governors and a host of legislators in a snowballing...
...Michael Russell has rejoined Wilson Sonsini from Goodwin Procter as a corporate partner, and will co-lead the firm’s M&A practice with longtime partner Robert Ishii....
...In its statement on Wednesday, the company said it “does not anticipate that the guilty plea . . . will affect the eligibility of SNC-Lavalin Group companies to bid on future projects”....
...Mr Biden’s plea for patience is based on polls showing him to be the preferred candidate of African-American voters, who will be crucial in South Carolina....
...“Solving climate change through inclusive capitalism will define our generation,” said Nigel Wilson, chief executive of Legal & General, another big asset manager....
...April 2019 British Steel makes a plea for a £120m loan from the UK government to plug a shortfall in credits owed to the European Commission for carbon emissions....
...It is also a polemic, a plea to reject the medicalisation of menopause and its language of loss and deficiency....
...Bee Wilson’s latest book is ‘The Way We Eat Now’ (Fourth Estate) Do you think the lunch hour is dead? Let us know what you think in the comments...
...It was a plea to the then Pope, John XXII, to rescind his support for the claim by Edward I of England for overlordship of Scotland, and to recognise its independence....
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