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UAE president continues accepting condolences from world leaders

Abu Dhabi / WAM President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan continued to accept the condolences of world leaders and heads of their delegations over the passing of the late Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan. His Highness Sheikh Mohamed accepted condolences in the UAE capital, Abu Dhabi, from President Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani of Mauritania; Emmanuel ...

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Smelting giant Korea Zinc to invest $6.6b in green power

  Bloomberg After nearly half a century expanding its bread-and-butter business into one of the world’s largest metal smelting operations, Korea Zinc Co is setting its sights on renewable energy to cut costs and drive growth. The Seoul-headquartered zinc, gold, silver and lead smelter plans to invest $6.6 billion over the next eight years developing solar and wind power generation ...

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EU mulls gas price cap in Russian supply row

  Bloomberg The European Union could cap natural-gas prices to avoid “unbearably high” costs if Russia, the region’s biggest supplier, significantly limits or cuts off the flow. The European Commission is mapping out energy-market intervention measures as part of a package to replace Russian gas imports after the invasion of Ukraine. It is set to recommend agreeing on common principles ...

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Fortum plans ‘controlled exit’ from Russia through sales

  Bloomberg Finland’s Fortum Oyj plans to leave Russia by selling assets as policy makers pushed for the state-owned utility to exit because of the war in Ukraine. “We have decided to pursue a controlled exit from the Russian market,” Chief Executive Officer Markus Rauramo said in a statement. “As the preferred path, this decision includes a potential divestment of ...

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Chile copper mines dodge radical changes

  Bloomberg Major copper producers from BHP to Freeport-McMoRan will likely avoid drastic changes in the way they do business in Chile as writers of a new constitution wrapped up deliberations on mining proposals. In a vote on the Constitutional Convention floor, a plan to replace the nation’s investor-friendly concession model with a system of temporary and revocable permits fell ...

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Climate change fuels more intense global wildfires

Bloomberg Already, 2022 is taking its place in a pantheon of years that have seen the nature of fire change — and all parts of the world fall under threat. It’s only expected to get worse, with drought and heat waves looming over the horizon for many parts of the globe. At the epicenter of the fury will be the ...

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The machine that brought ‘Bongbong’ to victory

  In the days following the landslide victory of Ferdinand Marcos Jr, friends and colleagues in the US and Europe with memories of his father’s kleptocracy asked me how this could have happened. With all the forces working in Marcos’s favour, a more pertinent query might be: What was going to stop it? If you spent time before the Philippines’s ...

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Tesla hedging global supply chain bets

From India to Indonesia, Elon Musk is scouting out sites to make more Teslas for global roads. With the world mired in supply chain chaos, access to materials matters most. He’s got it right. After lobbying against India’s tight policies around manufacturing and prohibitive import duties, Musk is headed to meet Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo and visit several areas across ...

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SEC is stuff of Chinese investors’ fever dreams

  In recent days, about half a dozen investors in Hong Kong and New York who blame the US Securities and Exchange Commission for the recent selloff in China’s technology companies were being spoken to. They say they’ve spotted a pattern: provisional delisting announcements by the Washington regulator have tended to precede a drop in the broader market. On March ...

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How Russian is it?: A very crude question

  Sunday was the day when European Union regulations prohibiting dealings with Russian state energy companies come into effect. That should trigger a further decline in the volume of crude and refined products bought and traded by European companies, but it won’t bring flows to a halt. Even when, or if, the EU finally imposes sanctions on the purchase of ...

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