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In Panipat, 1m tons of used clothing a year are turned into products for global brands, but dangerous machinery and few safeguards mean life-changing injuries are common For three months, Suraj Kumar’s job was to feed discarded clothes into shredding machines in Panipat, an industrial city in the north Indian state of Haryana. Clothes discarded in the US, Canada and Europe arrive in the city to…
James Norton and Lucy Punch star as a youthful Mr and Mrs Claus in lively ad about shared moments as well as shopping For years the “Christmas advert moment” has belonged to one brand. John Lewis’s syrupy commercials featuring piano ballads and tearjerker storylines have given the 160-year-old department store a cultural head start in the dash for festive profits. This year, however, there’s one…
The move to clean electricity will form the focus of the climate summit, which begins next week in coal-obsessed Turkey. The outlook doesn’t look good • Don’t get Down to Earth delivered to your inbox? Sign up here Holding a climate conference under the presidency of one coal-obsessed country might be regarded as a misfortune for the planet – sharing it between two starts to look provocative…
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Copper slumped to its lowest since July as a political shakeup in Washington threatened to blunt two key bullish drivers: the rapid buildout of AI infrastructure, and the risk of US import tariffs on the metal.
In an interview with The Economist, the prime minister says he is open-minded about Britain’s relationship with the EU. He also has a spikier attitude towards Israel, and is keen to host Xi Jinping at next year’s G20 summit bit.ly/4sLpmDZ Photo: Getty Images
Chainalysis disclosed password hashes and live tokens were exposed after initially reporting only non-sensitive customer data was accessed.
The Dems have to figure out what they stand for, and what they want to do.
Clutch, backed by Lightspeed and SignalFire, was last valued at $85 million, according to a source.
This paper argues that globalisation’s frontier has shifted from manufacturing GVCs to services GVCs: from the Global Factory to the Global Office. While the Factory remains larger in gross trade, the Office is growing much faster. A heatmap of trade in intermediates shows that the Factory is bloc-shaped and dominated by China, whereas the Office […] The post The Global Office appeared first on…
Santiago Peña’s rightwing administration had authorised Ueno Bank to drastically expand operations before collapse Paraguay’s rightwing president, Santiago Peña, resigned on Thursday after a political and financial crisis collapsed the South American country’s banking system in recent days. At the centre of the crisis is Ueno Bank, which in just a few years under Peña went from an obscure…