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BAKU, AZERBAIJAN – NOVEMBER 12: World leaders and delegates pose for a family photo on day two of the UNFCCC COP29 Climate Conference at Baku Stadium on November 12, 2024 in Baku, Azerbaijan. The COP29, which is running from November 11 through 22, is bringing together stakeholders, including international heads of state and other leaders, scientists, environmentalists, indigenous peoples representatives, activists and others to discuss and agree on the implementation of global measures towards mitigating the effects of climate change. According to the United Nations, countries made no progress over the last year in reducing global emissions from the burning of fossil fuels. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

Wealthy polluters to pay $300 billion a year after bitter negotiations at COP29

Northvolt’s CEO and co-founder Peter Carlsson announces his resignation during a press conference in Stockholm on November 22, 2024. This decision follows the company’s recent filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the United States. (Photo by Christine OLSSON / TT News Agency / AFP) / Sweden OUT (Photo by CHRISTINE OLSSON/TT News Agency/AFP via Getty Images)

Swedish battery champion Northvolt facing financial meltdown as CEO resigns

The Harper Collins book trade stand during the third and final day of the London Book Fair at the Olympia Exhibition Hall, on 14th March 2024, in London, England. The three-day international London Book Fair (LBF) is an annual publishing industry expo and Europe’s largest spring book fair that typically attracts 25,000 visitors; exhibitors from across the publishing sector; authors hoping for their book ideas to be commissioned and where international publication rights deals are made for foreign editions. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)

HarperCollins strikes AI training deal with unnamed company amid rising copyright tensions between publishers and AI firms

Former US president Donald Trump on the 4th hole at Trump International Golf Links & Hotel in Doonbeg, Co. Clare, during his visit to Ireland. Picture date: Thursday May 4, 2023. (Photo by Brian Lawless/PA Images via Getty Images)

From tax haven to tariff turbulence: Ireland braces for Trump’s trade war as elections approach

BYAlexandra Del Peral and AFP

South Korean engineers work on a K-30W Chunho 30mm wheeled anti-aircraft gun at Hanwha Aerospace factory in Changwon on November 21, 2024. Longstanding domestic policy bars Seoul from providing weapons into active conflict zones, but ever since its spy agency accused the nuclear-armed North last month of sending thousands of soldiers to help Moscow fight Kyiv, South Korea has warned it might change course. (Photo by JUNG YEON-JE / AFP) / TO GO WITH AFP STORY SKorea-NKorea-Ukraine-weaponry-conflict / FOCUS BY Kang Jin-kyu (Photo by JUNG YEON-JE/AFP via Getty Images)

South Korea’s arms industry, once seen as backward for focusing on land weapons, is booming post-Ukraine

People gather next to the Merlion statue at the Marina Bay Waterfront Promenade in Singapore on August 7, 2024. (Photo by Roslan RAHMAN / AFP) (Photo by ROSLAN RAHMAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Singapore’s GDP growth last quarter zooms past forecasts due to booming chip demand

A woman uses her phone as she stands on a footpath in central Sydney on November 7, 2024. Australia will move to pass new laws banning children under 16 from social media, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said, vowing to crack down on tech giants failing to protect vulnerable users. (Photo by DAVID GRAY / AFP) (Photo by DAVID GRAY/AFP via Getty Images)

Australia plans to hit social media companies with $30 million fines if they fail to keep kids off their platforms

This July 28, 2017 picture released from North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on July 29, 2017 shows North Korea’s intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), Hwasong-14 being lauched at an undisclosed place in North Korea. Kim Jong-Un boasted of North Korea’s ability to strike any target in the US after a second ICBM test that weapons experts said could even bring New York into range -– in a potent challenge to US President Donald Trump. (Photo by KCNA VIS KNS / AFP) / South Korea OUT / REPUBLIC OF KOREA OUT —EDITORS NOTE— RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE – MANDATORY CREDIT “AFP PHOTO/KCNA VIA KNS” – NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS – DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS<br />
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Ukraine-Russia war escalates as Kremlin launches intercontinental ballistic missile for first time

Novartis CEO Vasant Narasimhan attends a session at the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, on January 19, 2024. (Photo by Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP) (Photo by FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images)

Swiss pharma giant Novartis says 30 pipeline drugs with ‘significant potential’ will drive long-term growth

Chief executive officer (CEO) of Irish airline Ryanair Michael O’Leary gestures during a press conference, on January 16, 2013 in Vitrolles, near Marseille’s airport, southern France. Low-cost Irish airline Ryanair is to open two new bases this spring in Morocco, its first outside Europe, company chief Michael O’Leary told AFP on Wednesday. AFP PHOTO/GERARD JULIEN (Photo credit should read GERARD JULIEN/AFP via Getty Images)

Ryanair threatens to drop 10 French regional airports over ‘short-sighted’ airline ticket tax hike

LISBON, PORTUGAL – JULY 11: The President of the Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity jury, Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel delivers remarks onstage at Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation on July 11, 2024, in Lisbon, Portugal. The ceremony attended by Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, the Minister of the Environment and Energy, Maria da Graça Carvalho, the President of the Jury, Angela Merkel, the President of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, António Feijó, the President of the Portuguese Parliament, José Pedro Aguiar-Branco, the Minister of Labor, Solidarity and Social Security, Rosário Palma Ramalho, the Minister of Health, Ana Paula Martins, and the Secretary of State for Health Management, Cristina Vas Tomé. The Calouste Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity, which honors exceptional contributions and solutions to combat climate change, received a record number of entries for the 2024 edition, with 180 nominations from all over the world. The prize, worth one million euros, rewards outstanding contributions to climate action and climate solutions that inspire hope and new possibilities. Awarded for the first time in 2020, it distinguishes individuals and organizations leading society’s efforts to tackle climate change, humanity’s greatest current challenge. The winner of the Prize is selected by an independent jury, chaired by former German chancellor Angela Merkel and made up of experts in earth system science, climate action, environmentalism and climate justice, from the scientific, technological, political and cultural fields. (Photo by Horacio Villalobos#Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images)

Angela Merkel, once celebrated as one of the world’s most popular politicians, now faces growing scrutiny over her legacy

BYPierrick Yvon and AFP

20 November 2024, Greece, Athen: Trade union members and citizens protest during a 24-hour general strike in Athens. Many people in Greece are laying down their work for 24 hours. They are responding to a call from the umbrella organizations of the Greek trade unions. They are criticizing the government’s economic policy and demanding better action against inflation, stagnating wages and salaries and improved social benefits. Photo: Socrates Baltagiannis/dpa (Photo by Socrates Baltagiannis/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Greece grinds to a halt: Thousands go on general strike over rising cost of living

Rene Magritte’s “L’empire des lumières” is on display during a press preview for Christie’s Fall 20/21 Marquee Week in New York, November 8, 2024. A work by Belgian painter René Magritte, another by American Ed Ruscha and a vulgar banana are the stars that could set records for their authors in the art auctions that begin this week in New York in a market that hopes to overcome last year’s slump.<br />
The two main houses Sotheby’s and Christie’s compete from November 18 with a rich offer in which the greatest exponents of 20th and 21st century painting abound, such as Picasso, Magritte, Matisse, Miró, Kankinsky, Moore, Ruscha, Basquiat, Carrington, Rothko, Lichtenstein, Giacometti or Haring. (Photo by kena betancur / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE – MANDATORY MENTION OF THE ARTIST UPON PUBLICATION – TO ILLUSTRATE THE EVENT AS SPECIFIED IN THE CAPTION / TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY Ana FERNANDEZ: “Magritte, Rucha and… a banana, in a bid to set new records at New York auctions” (Photo by KENA BETANCUR/AFP via Getty Images)

Rene Magritte painting ‘Empire of Light’ nets auction record of $121 million at Christie’s in New York

World’s biggest luxury goods company LVMH’s CEO Bernard Arnault addresses employees as he visits the world leader for the production of Cognac Hennessy’s new bottling plant on October 18, 2017 in Salles-d’Angles. (Photo by GEORGES GOBET / AFP) (Photo credit should read GEORGES GOBET/AFP via Getty Images)

LVMH’s Hennessy plan to trial bottling in China and bypass tariffs sparks hundreds protesting on home turf

Scott O’Neil chief executive of Merlin entertainments arriving for the launch of the new themed land, World of Jumanji, at Chessington World of Adventures Resort, south west London, which opens to the public on Monday. Picture date: Saturday May 13, 2023. (Photo by David Parry/PA Images via Getty Images)

Minecraft is set to enter the real world in £85 million theme park deal in U.K. and U.S.