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While we do not outright oppose the taking of AI company stock, or of a US a sovereign wealth fund, there are better ways to achieve the senator’s goalsLet no one accuse Bernie Sanders of ducking the big questions. Writi…
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Attempt to turn a stretch of the English-Scottish border into a commercial forest exposes threat to habitats from wealthy investorsOn the English-Scottish border a small species of butterfly, the northern brown argus, ha…
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Elon Musk firm plans the biggest stock market launch in history – but experts have flagged potential downsidesIt’s being billed as the biggest stock market launch in history. Shares in Elon Musk’s SpaceX are poised to be…
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Conditions that led to bloody prewar protests have been made worse, commentators say Iran is already preparing for the perilous transition from wartime unity to a fractious peace marked by hyperinflation, a 10% contracti…
Apps intended to replace branches have been hit by outages, as a poll finds most Britons want high street servicesWith its windows blanked out, a poster pinned to the door of the Staines branch of Lloyds Bank tells its c…
Thousands have protested in the streets of the Albanian capital, Tirana, this week against a planned luxury resort backed by Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner.Groundwork has begun on the $1.6bn complex in an area l…
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