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☆ A War on Cars? London’s Pollution Charge Sparks Political Battle
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-29 | by ( David Luhnow | Max Colchester | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

A vandalized surveillance camera in London’s newly expanded ultralow emission zone. Photo: Chris J. Ratcliffe/Bloomberg NewsLONDON—A London project to create the world’s largest low-emission zone came into force Tuesday as authorities imposed a daily charge on the most polluting vehicles, triggering controversy between those who see the move as a sensible step to clean up the air and those who say it amounts to a war on cars.

Persons: Chris J, Ratcliffe Organizations: Bloomberg

☆ U.K. Flights Disrupted by Air-Traffic-Control Glitch
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-28 | by ( David Luhnow | Benjamin Katz | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ British Nurse Who Killed Babies on the Job Gets Life Sentence
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-21 | by ( David Luhnow | Humza Jilani | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ More Than 60 Feared Dead as Migrant Boat Is Found Adrift After More Than a Month
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-17 | by ( David Luhnow | Eric Sylvers | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ U.K. Arrests Bulgarian Trio Suspected of Spying for Russia
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-15 | by ( David Luhnow | Georgi Kantchev | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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For investors looking to weed out climate laggards from portfolios, these are vital questions but existing guidelines on emissions reporting and new rules due to come in for the United States and Europe are unlikely to provide hard answers. The United States is on track to announce similar rules this year and the corporate standard, first launched in 2001 and revised in 2004, is also embedded in other international emissions reporting standards. Nonetheless, many investors scrutinise carbon emissions data to gauge how polluting a company is, how it compares with rivals and how this might affect its bottom line and share price. Another area of investor concern is how companies account for their own energy use, or Scope 2 emissions. The GHGP allows companies to buy green energy to offset their emissions, using contractual instruments such as renewable energy certificates, and reflect this in their reporting.

Persons: Fabrizio Bensch, Vanessa Bingle, David Lubin, Subaru, SCA's Lubin, Laura Kane, Kane, Jimmy Jia, Jia, abrdn, Pedro Faria, Faria, Pankaj Bhatia, Douglas Gillison, Sumanta Sen, Dan Flynn, David Clarke Organizations: REUTERS, Toyota, Shell, Greenhouse, World Business, Sustainable Development, World Resources Institute, Reuters, Alpha Financial Markets Consulting, Analytics, Subaru, North, Voya Investment Management, Voya, EU, Sustainability, IFRS, Oxford Smith School of Enterprise, Reuters Graphics, U.S . Securities, Exchange, Thomson Locations: Berlin, Germany, United States, Europe, Japan, North America, U.S, Britain, British, EU

SummaryCompanies Casino cut supermarket food prices by 10% on averagePARIS, July 27 (Reuters) - Cash-strapped retailer Casino (CASP.PA) swung to a loss of 233 million euros ($258.5 million) for the first half as falling sales and price cuts at its hypermarkets and supermarkets dented its core French business. The French retailer's group operating loss came after a profit of 166 million euros in the first half of 2022, with its operations in France posting a loss of 299 million euros. Consolidated group net sales fell 1.2% like for like in the second quarter to 5.5 billion euros, with retail sales in France down 4.2%. "We don't intend to go further," Lubek said when asked about possible further price cuts. Group net debt at end June-2023 was 6.1 billion euros against 6.0 billion at end June-2022.

Persons: Daniel Kretinsky, Jean, Charles Naouri, David Lubek, Lubek, France's, Dominique Vidalon, Kim Coghill Organizations: Casino, Finance, Consolidated, Thomson Locations: PARIS, French, France, Lincoln

☆ This Harvard dropout and her brother launched a company to conserve liquids in factories
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-22 | by ( Catherine Clifford | In Catclifford | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +12 min

"As with every family business, everyone is involved in the family business," Annie told CNBC. We grew up in the sector," Annie told CNBC. Zoom In Icon Arrows pointing outwards Annie and David Lu at a Harvard Innovation Labs event, when they were still ideating. As part of this partnership, Unilever tested the H2Ok Innovations solution at its Ben & Jerry's facility in Waterbury, Vermont. "They are exceptionally smart, visionary and courageous — the kind of founders investors dream to back," Iskold told CNBC.

Persons: David, Annie Lu, Annie Lu Annie Lu, Lu, Lu's, hasn't, Annie, David's, David Lu, David Lu They, Sandeep Desai, Desai, Jeff Bussgang, Alex Iskold, doting, Iskold, Dayna Grayson, We've, David giggled, it's Organizations: Harvard, CNBC, H2Ok, Construct, Flybridge, Ventures, Greentown Labs, Forbes, H20k, Harvard Innovation Labs, Unilever, AB InBev, Coca Cola Co, Colgate, Palmolive, Waterbury, Unit, Flybridge Capital, Construct Capital Locations: China, Saskatoon, Canada, Bay, Techstars, Boston, Minnesota, Minneapolis, Waterbury , Vermont, U.S, Brazil, United States, H2Ok

The dismissal of Rohan Ramchandani's civil lawsuit by U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero was disclosed in a docket entry on Thursday in Manhattan federal court. Marrero plans to release his written decision after Citigroup and Ramchandani agree which information should be kept confidential. One year later, Ramchandani sued Citigroup, saying it fired him without cause in January 2014 amid a global probe into foreign exchange price fixing, and then shared false and "gravely derogatory" claims against him with law enforcement. Ramchandani accused Citigroup of entering its plea in part to shift blame away from senior managers and officers. The case is Ramchandani v. Citigroup Inc et al, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, No.

Persons: Rohan Ramchandani's, District Judge Victor Marrero, Marrero, David Lurie, Danielle Romero, Apsilos, Ramchandani, Chris Ashton, Richard Usher, JPMorgan Chase, Ramchandani's, Jonathan Stempel, Marguerita Choy Organizations: YORK, Citigroup, U.S, District, Ramchandani, Barclays, JPMorgan, U.S . Department of Justice, Citigroup Inc, Court, Southern District of, Thomson Locations: U.S, London, Manhattan, New York, Southern District, Southern District of New York

☆ What Makes Putin and the World’s Autocrats So Resilient?
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-03 | by ( David Luhnow | Juan Forero | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Luis Arraez Is Chasing One of Baseball’s Sacred Feats and Sports Divinity
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-27 | by ( Kurt Streeter | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Arraez, a Venezuelan who is 5 feet 10 inches, is chasing more than a match of Williams, who finished that ’41 season with a .406 average. In 1947, Jackie Robinson broke baseball’s color line, which had been in place since the 19th century. No player has ever finished a season batting at or above .400 since Major League Baseball became an integrated game. Consider the ancient Greeks. And just as we are today, the ancient Greeks were obsessed with reputation.

Persons: Williams, Arraez, Jackie Robinson, Milo of, ”, David Lunt, “ Organizations: Major League Baseball, Southern Utah University Locations: Venezuelan, Athens, Milo of Croton

☆ Social-Media Influencer Andrew Tate Is Charged With Rape, Human Trafficking
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-20 | by ( David Luhnow | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ For King Charles, a Detente Emerges in Relationship With U.K. Media
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-07 | by ( David Luhnow | Alistair Macdonald | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

People in Piccadilly Circus during the coronation of King Charles III. Photo: Cover Images/Zuma PressLONDON—King Charles III’s coronation this weekend got rave reviews from the British press, part of what appears to be a fragile truce between the notoriously aggressive U.K. media and the new king, after a long and sometimes frosty relationship. The former Prince of Wales has had a famously fraught time with the British press, especially when he had an affair with Camilla Parker-Bowles, now his wife and queen, while married to Diana, princess of Wales. He was also mocked for years over everything from his ears to his penchant for talking to plants.

☆ The U.S. Guide to King Charles III’s Coronation
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-05 | by ( David Luhnow | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

King Charles III will hold his official coronation on Saturday. Coronations are a rare event nowadays; this is the first such event in 70 years in Britain, the only Western nation that still has a coronation ceremony. In Britain, such ceremonies are recorded as far back as 973 when Anglo-Saxon King Edgar was crowned in Bath Abbey. The coronation isn’t the moment the monarch becomes king or queen. Rather, it symbolizes the conferring of God’s grace upon the sovereign, which is why it is part of a religious service.

May 4 (Reuters) - Two prominent former Google (GOOGL.O) researchers who authored the groundbreaking paper that paved the way for the generative AI boom, have raised $8 million for their new startup Essential AI, four sources told Reuters. Thrive Capital had led the round in Essential AI, founded by Ashish Vaswani and Niki Parmar. Thrive Capital, founded by Joshua Kushner, is also an investor in Microsoft-backed OpenAI. Essential AI aims to build software for enterprises to use large language models, the core software of a new artificial intelligence system that has powered generative AI applications such as ChatGPT, sources said. The raise came after Vaswani and Parmar left Adept AI, a company they also co-founded in 2021 with former Google director David Luan.

☆ A History of British Coronations Past and Present, in Photos
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-04 | by ( David Luhnow | Max Colchester | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Anointing is a key part of the ceremony: holy oil is administered to symbolize God’s descent on the monarch. Here is George V in 1911. Charles is putting a more eco-friendly twist on this by using olive oil instead of the intestinal wax of sperm whales or from the glands of civets. Paul Popper/Popperfoto/Getty Images

☆ European Economies Are Finding New Ways to Pay for War on Their Doorstep
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-03 | by ( David Luhnow | Sandra Kilhof | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Danish lawmakers have canceled a 300-year-old religious public holiday to recoup the additional tax revenue. Photo: epa-efe/ShutterstockCOPENHAGEN—Denmark, a founding member of NATO, has no artillery, submarines or air-defense system. The small Nordic nation didn’t think it needed them because a ground war in Europe seemed far-fetched—until Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The conflict in its neighborhood has set it and similar European nations scrambling to plug gaps in their armory. Denmark, one of the richest nations per capita in the Western world, has pledged to boost military spending from about 1.4% of gross domestic product to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s target of 2% by 2030.

☆ Biden to Visit Northern Ireland to Celebrate Hard-Earned Peace
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-11 | by ( David Luhnow | Catherine Lucey | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Twenty-Five Years After the Good Friday Agreement, an Uneasy Peace Prevails in Northern Ireland
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-08 | by ( David Luhnow | Max Colchester | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

BELFAST—In mid-February, Detective Chief Inspector John Caldwell finished coaching his son’s soccer team and was putting soccer balls into the trunk of his car in Omagh, Northern Ireland, when two masked gunmen shot him multiple times in front of his son. British authorities suspect that pro-Irish republicans targeted Mr. Caldwell, who remains hospitalized. On Tuesday, U.S. President Biden will travel to the British province to celebrate the deal’s anniversary along with U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar . Mr. Biden, whose ancestors were Irish, will hail the deal that brought an uneasy peace between a mostly Protestant community that sees itself as British and wants to remain part of the U.K., and a mostly Catholic community that endured decades of discrimination and which views itself as Irish and aspires to see a united Ireland. Within hours of Mr. Caldwell’s shooting, the leaders of the province’s five main political parties—which include pro-British unionist parties and pro-Irish nationalist ones—condemned the attack.

☆ Celebrating Peace in Northern Ireland: The Good Friday Agreement’s 25th Anniversary
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-07 | by ( David Luhnow | Max Colchester | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

After Britain deployed troops, the Irish Republican Army stepped up its campaign against the British state, and its use of car bombs would strike terror across Northern Ireland and Britain. The aftermath of an IRA bombing in London in March 1973. Central Press/AFP/Getty Images

☆ BBC Reinstates Sports Presenter Gary Lineker After Dispute Over Political Tweets
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-13 | by ( David Luhnow | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Gary Lineker is the BBC’s highest-paid sports broadcaster and a former soccer star. LONDON—The British Broadcasting Corp. on Monday struck a deal with its top sports presenter that will allow him back on air, days after it ignited a staff rebellion by suspending him for tweeting about politics. After a tumultuous weekend that saw the broadcaster dramatically cut back its sports coverage, BBC Director-General Tim Davie said the company would allow Gary Lineker back on air and promised to carry out an independent review of the company’s social-media guidelines, which he said had gray areas.

☆ Britain’s Colin Kaepernick Moment: BBC Sparks Its Own Culture War Crisis
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-13 | by ( David Luhnow | Max Colchester | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

BBC commentator Gary Lineker was suspended over tweeting about politics. LONDON—The British Broadcasting Corp. now finds itself caught in a drama of its own making: By suspending a top sports broadcaster over tweeting about politics, it has inadvertently forced itself into the center of a U.S. style culture war. On Sunday, the state-funded broadcaster for the second day had to limit the availability of its sports programming after dozens of staff and leading sports announcers walked off in protest at the suspension of retired footballer Gary Lineker, one of England’s most popular sports figures and the BBC’s highest-paid broadcaster.

☆ BBC Staff Revolts Over Suspension of Sports Commentator for Political Tweets
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-11 | by ( Max Colchester | David Luhnow | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

BBC sports commentator Gary Lineker was suspended after publishing tweets criticizing the U.K. government’s new policies on migrants. LONDON—The British Broadcasting Corp. has sparked one of its biggest crises in years by suspending its top sports commentator for criticizing the U.K. government on Twitter, leading to a staff rebellion and allegations that the state-funded broadcaster had compromised its independence by folding to government pressure. The venerable broadcaster yanked Gary Lineker, one of England’s most famous former football players and its highest paid presenter, from the country’s most watched football roundup show after he published tweets criticizing the government’s new policies on migrants, comparing them to Nazi Germany. The BBC said it considered Mr. Lineker’s “recent social media activity to be a breach of our guidelines” and said he “should keep well away from taking sides on party political issues or political controversies.”

☆ U.K. to Bar All Asylum Seekers Who Cross Channel on Boats
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-06 | by ( Max Colchester | David Luhnow | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The number of migrants arriving to England from France on small boats has soared. LONDON—The U.K. government is to introduce a law on Tuesday which bans asylum seekers who arrive on small boats across the English Channel from claiming British citizenship, the latest attempt by the ruling Conservative Party to fix Britain’s overwhelmed asylum system and bring under control a hot button issue that has damaged its standings in the polls. The new laws aims to deter and more quickly process tens of thousands of asylum seekers who make the sometimes perilous journey to the U.K. in small boats from France, a government spokesman said Monday. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has made tackling the issue a key pledge ahead of an election expected next year.

Questions posed by the conservative justices during arguments on Tuesday over Biden's debt relief indicated that the conservative-majority court could strike down the plan as an unlawful overreach of executive power. "If Congress can't or won't step up, and the court won't let presidents do so, what are we left with? Its conservative justices already have invoked it to scuttle a pandemic-era residential eviction moratorium, a COVID-19 vaccination-or-testing mandate for large businesses and federal limits on carbon emissions from power plants. In some instances, like Biden's unilateral effort to extend the eviction moratorium, he took executive action following congressional inaction. "I'm concerned that we're going to have a problem in terms of the federal government's ability to operate," Jackson said.

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