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...Omar Sultan al Olama, the UAE’s AI minister, said more than 1,000 companies with a focus on AI were now operating in the Gulf state....
...Against somewhat pessimistic expectations, moreover, the COP hosts United Arab Emirates, and its president Sultan al-Jaber — who heads the national company Adnoc — presided over a conference that produced...
...She is the former chief executive of the Aerospace Corporation. Apple also said that Al Gore and James Bell would retire from the board this year....
...But the reality (HT Mitu Gulati) was a bit of a let-down: The United States of America respectfully submits this Statement of Interest in accordance with federal statutes that authorize the United States...
...Dates to be announced; further information here soon The Art Show, Park Avenue Armory The Art Dealers Association of America’s annual show assembles top art from galleries across the nation....
...The United Kingdom has another rain bomb alert just today. We saw a third of Pakistan under water....
...Green activists will be yelling about the grotesque parody of having a huge fossil fuel producer, the United Arab Emirates, as COP host: Sultan al-Jaber, COP president, also runs Adnoc, the state-owned oil...
...meetings with al-Maktoum in Blue Carbon’s offices in the Burj Al Salam skyscraper in Dubai in August....
...“They see it as a victory but I don’t see it at all,” said Nasser Al-Khelaifi, chair of both Paris Saint-Germain and the European Club Association....
...Eurostar narrowly dodged bankruptcy in 2021 after being bailed out by shareholders including French state railway SNCF, Canadian institutional fund manager Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec and Hermes...
...being undermined by the leadership of United Arab Emirates oil executive Sultan al-Jaber....
...Hello from Dubai’s sun-baked Expo City, where the United Arab Emirates’ leader Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan has just announced that his nation will put $30bn into a new fund that will invest in “global...
...boom in North America....
...Chart of the day Saudi football club Al Hilal has approached Qatar-owned Paris Saint-Germain with a €300mn bid to sign Kylian Mbappé, a record-breaking offer for the French forward who has been locked in...
...Bank of America is advising Sheikh Jassim on the Manchester United bid. Sheikh Jassim has long been in his father’s shadow....
...Woman, Life, Freedom by Marjane Satrapi et al (Seven Stories Press) The much-feted author of the graphic novel Persepolis leads a collection of vivid, “visually stunning” accounts of the current unrest gripping...
...The ECA’s chair, Nasser Al-Khelaifi, is himself an advocate of the model. Qatar Sports Investment, which he also chairs, owns Paris Saint-Germain and has a stake in Portuguese club SC Braga....
...The UAE appointed the head of its state-owned oil company, Sultan al-Jaber, as COP28 president last week, a decision that provoked a backlash from climate experts and activists....
...This is not happening in Paris. This is happening in a Gulf state, which is an autocracy....
...Saudi minister of state for foreign affairs Adel al-Jubeir told the FT that the Paris Agreement goal struck in 2015 to keep global warming to 1.5C, ideally, was “achievable”, but “we don’t see this as a...
...“I can stand here as president of the United States of America and say, with confidence, the United States of America will meet our emissions targets by 2030,” Biden told the COP27 gathering, on his way...
...In the United States....
...Rothschild & Co has named Nasser Al Issa, the former investment chief of Saudi Agricultural and Livestock Investment Co, as head of Saudi Arabia while making Britain’s former top civil servant Mark Sedwill...
...Now see the many state attorneys-general (acolytes, no doubt of Alito et. al.) who want to sanction corporations that adopt ESG....
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