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Jun- 2023 -2 JuneEconomy
Elon Musk and Jamie Dimon lead corporate charge to Beijing as ties with US fray
In just two days this week, Elon Musk had more top-level Chinese meetings than Biden administration officials have had in…
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CIA chief made secret visit to China in bid to thaw relations
CIA director Bill Burns travelled to China last month, a clandestine visit by one of President Joe Biden’s most trusted…
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UK expats hit by mortgage drought
British expats in EU countries are scrambling to find affordable options for remortgaging their UK homes amid high interest rates,…
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Macron needs more than ‘strategic humility’ to woo Europe’s east
Emmanuel Macron deployed a novel tactic this week to try to repair France’s frayed relations with Europe’s eastern flank —…
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Covid inquiry legal fight: a sideshow to broader quarrel about WhatsApp
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2 JuneEconomy
The landscape architect, the nuns, and the forest of the future
“This is what we’ve done for many hundreds of years,” says Abbess Monika Thumm, the head of Kloster Mariazell –…
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Russian concerns on Ukraine must ‘be taken into account’, says Brazil
The west must take “into account” Russian president Vladimir Putin’s security concerns and stop the slide towards a Versailles-style victors’…
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US hirings expected to have cooled in May
US jobs growth is expected to have slowed in May, in one of the last key data releases before central…
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2 JuneEconomy
Wages are not driving inflation (much)
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‘Stream’ and ‘Torch’: the Gazprom-backed militias fighting in Ukraine
The late Erast Yakovenko, a barrel-chested veteran of the 1990s war in Chechnya, hailed from a long line of Russian…
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