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Africa’s richest man aiming to make $23bn from continent’s biggest-ever IPO
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Why Saudi Arabia’s East-West pipeline matters for global oil
The 1,200km (745-mile) pipeline has been temporarily closed, affecting up to 5 percent of global oil supply.
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The London hospital funded by donors who invested in the slave trade
St Barts is one of many UK institutions whose benefactors were involved in the trafficking of enslaved Africans Inside the Great Hall of St Bartholomew’s North Wing, alongside stately portraits of the apostle from whom London’s oldest hospital takes its name and King Henry VIII, extravagant commemorative boards adorn the walls. The Great Hall was a grand, formal space where governors weighed their philanthropic donations and drafted their wills, many while investing in the stock of companies built on the trafficking of enslaved Africans. Today, many of those donors are commemorated in acrylic gold paint on the boards. Continue reading...
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Israel working to eliminate Palestinian presence from West Bank, NGO warns
Israeli human rights group B’Tselem details five mechanisms used by Israel to dismantle Palestinian collective life.
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Swedish centre-left opposition widens lead to three seats with 95% of votes counted – Europe live
The parliament isn’t set to meet until late September to elect a new speaker, and then prime minister Nordic correspondent Since the party was founded in 1988, the story of the far-right Sweden Democrats (SD) has been one of such continuous growth that a triumph in Sunday’s general election seemed inevitable. Continue reading...
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The far right’s march to power in Sweden has been halted, but its influence remains
The Sweden Democrats slipped to third after decades of growth, but their hardline positions have already reshaped the political mainstream Swedish centre-left opposition widens lead to three seats with 95% of votes counted – live Since the party was founded in 1988, the story of the far-right Sweden Democrats (SD) has been one of such continuous growth that a triumph in Sunday’s general election seemed inevitable. In 2022, the party capitalised on electoral gains – and the desperation of right-leaning parties to form a minority administration – and almost made its way into government . A supporting role in prime minister Ulf Kristersson’s Tidö coalition earned the party, which has neo-Nazi roots, huge influence and mainstream acceptance by the political establishment. Continue reading...
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Russia hits Ukrainian train shortly after Boris Johnson and top European officials leave station
The former UK PM said: "I don't know what warped logic drove Putin to blow up a stationary Ukrainian locomotive on the Polish border this morning".