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How a UK city changed its fortune

“It feels like it’s Birmingham’s chance to shine,” says Stephen Knight, the creator of Peaky Blinders, a hit television series set in the city. Two thousand performers took part in last night’s opening ceremony for this year’s Commonwealth Games. The city’s landmarks are splashed in bright paint or festooned with multi-colored banners. Brummies are brimming with pride. The games are ...

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Paris faces an even colder, darker winter than Berlin

  In the European energy crisis, all of the attention is focused on Germany and gas from Russia. But France and its fleet of struggling nuclear reactors are at least as important. Indeed, the first European city to suffer a blackout as temperatures drop toward the end of the year may well be Paris rather than Berlin. As winter approaches, ...

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Europe’s energy plan isn’t ambitious enough

  By all indications, Russian President Vladimir Putin is weaponizing energy exports to divide Europe and undermine its support for Ukraine. The European Union’s response this week is unlikely to change his calculations. Time is running out to come up with a better solution. Russia’s state-owned Gazprom PJSC has slashed gas flows to Europe through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline ...

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