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Chevron-led oil firm curbs oil output in Kazakhstan

  Bloomberg Chevron Corp’s oil production venture in Kazakhstan — which operates the country’s largest field — is curbing output due to issues at a supply link on the Black Sea. “Due to unscheduled repair works at the Caspian Pipeline Consortium’s marine terminal, Tengizchevroil is adjusting its production accordingly,” the company, also known as TCO, said. TCO declined to comment ...

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Trying Russia’s Putin for war crimes is no fantasy

If peace in Ukraine looks depressingly far away, accountability seems beyond another galaxy. What are the chances Vladimir Putin will appear in a courtroom to answer for the hell he’s unleashed in Ukraine? They seem vanishingly small. And yet, national leaders, politicians, global organisations and an army of individuals are working to build the war crimes case against Putin and ...

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ESG means no more buying a coke!

The day after the US lifted its trade embargo on Burma in 2012, I spoke to an executive at Coca-Cola Co. He proudly announced that his company already had people on a plane headed to the country. It is Coca-Cola’s policy, he explained, to sell its beverages anywhere it’s allowed to do so. Coke was sold in Russia during the ...

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