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...The US official said the G7’s legal discussions reflected the importance of abiding by international law in responding to Russia’s invasion....
...Context: Renew Europe came third in the 2019 election and voted with the centre-right European People’s party (EPP) and Socialists and Democrats (S&D) to install Ursula von der Leyen as European Commission...
...Chart du jour: Outsourcing The EU is funding authoritarian countries on its periphery to curb arrivals to the bloc, although irregular migration figures are well below 2016’s peak....
...The ministerial conference — or MC13 — kicked off yesterday in Abu Dhabi and is a rerun of 2022’s MC12....
...The pro-independence regional government in Catalonia said it would “work to extend” F1’s presence in Catalonia beyond 2026 — and Domenicali said that moving to Madrid did not exclude staying in Barcelona...
...Protecting home(s) Finland is toughening its public stance against Russia, with the government yesterday banning three property transactions in the Nordic country involving Russians, writes Richard Milne...
...That’s right: “almost none” of October’s shipments were executed below the G7’s $60-a-barrel limit, officials admit....
...Now read these In the interim(s): Slovakia’s caretaker prime minister Eduard Heger has resigned, deepening political turmoil and encouraging pro-Russian voices....
...Among the works getting their first recordings are Charlotte Sohy’s passionately heated Symphony in C sharp minor, the seductive salon music of Jeanne Danglas’s L’Amour s’éveille and La Sirène, a dramatic...
...And as we noted in ES earlier this week, even the G7’s price cap on Russian seaborne oil exports seems to be outperforming expectations....
...Emmanuel Dubois-Pelerin, head of utilities for Emea at S&P Global, says he had expected more coal power stations to restart given the demand....
...Heidi DuBois, US head of ESG for Edelman, said investors were placing less emphasis on sustainable issues as businesses battled to stay afloat during the pandemic....
...Even today, the popular fund family SPDR’s standard S&P 500 ETF has a market capitalisation of $384bn, while the fossil fuel-free version has just $1.2bn and the ESG version has $336m....
...The references to Williams also send up Who’s Afraid ’s debt to A Streetcar Named Desire....
...At Angola, Woodfox became steeped in the party’s teachings, consuming Franz Fanon, WEB DuBois, Marcus Garvey....
...Blanche DuBois or absentee householder; who’s fretting? Let’s ask instead how she started as an MGM star. The room lap-dissolves into the late 1940s and the voice perks up....
...As a result, like Blanche DuBois, the UK has had to rely on the kindness of strangers.”...
...The fondness for coining punning neologisms that he gave full rein in 2008’s Anathem is also in evidence here....
...The maids Claire (portrayed by Blanchett) and Solange (portrayed by Huppert) plot their crime in the language of S&M....
...“This time the government has come up with a project that is more feasible and attractive to the private sector,” said Mr Dubois....
...“Lyxor is diversifying its offering to include physically replicated ETFs to fully address investors’ needs,” said Alain Dubois, chairman of Lyxor....
...“The world is shifting towards indexing,” says Alain Dubois, chairman of Lyxor Asset Management, arguing that indices promote transparent and efficient investing at minimal cost....
...“They went from one extreme to another,” says Richard Dubois, infrastructure partner at PwC in São Paulo, adding that it would have been better first to threaten the companies with fines rather than suspend...
...The company made $1.63bn net profit against 2009’s $1.42bn net loss, on revenue up 36 per cent to $14.3bn....
...This two-hour production, directed by Peter DuBois, is highly enjoyable, even if its highlights dissolve by the morrow....
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