24 12, 2025

Louvre Tightens Security After $102M Jewel Heist, Installs Bars on Infamous Window

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A freight lift rose up on its crane Tuesday toward the Louvre Museum — but this time it wasn’t jewel thieves. It was workers installing security bars on the window used to break into the Paris landmark’s Apollo Gallery in …

24 12, 2025

Vermont Groups Remove Record Nine Dams in 2025, Eye Dozens More

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There are at least 140 dams in the Winooski River watershed, according to Michele Braun, executive director of the Friends of the Winooski River. Three of those dams help with flood control. Fifteen provide hydropower. A “handful” contribute to local …

24 12, 2025

EU Faces Renewed US Ire After ESG Cutbacks Fail to Calm Tensions

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The European Union’s ESG framework — a shadow of its former self after a year of deep cuts — is drawing renewed threats from the US. At issue is the so-called extraterritoriality of the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive and the …

24 12, 2025

People Moves: Gallagher Taps EY’s Hughes as Tax Specialist in Private Equity/M&A Team

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Gallagher Taps Hughes From EY as Tax Specialist in Private Equity and M&A Practice Gallagher announced the UK appointment of specialist corporate M&A tax adviser Tom Hughes as director of Tax Insurance to its EMEA-wide Private Equity and M&A (PEMA) …

24 12, 2025

Waymo to Update Software Across Fleet After Major Power Failure

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Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo said it would strengthen its automated software to better handle power outages after its self-driving taxis froze and caused traffic jams during a major electricity failure last weekend in San Francisco. The Waymo Driver system is programmed …

19 12, 2025

Catastrophe Bonds Linked to Wildfires Lose ‘Untouchable’ Status

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Alternative investment managers are starting to take a serious interest in catastrophe bonds tied to wildfires, moving into a risk category that just a few years ago was seen as too difficult to model. More than $5 billion of cat …

19 12, 2025

India’s Big-Bang Financial Reforms Target Foreign Money

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India’s long-awaited package of financial services reforms is setting the stage for a surge of foreign capital into the world’s fastest-growing major economy. In the latest step, lawmakers passed a bill this week allowing up to 100% foreign ownership of …

19 12, 2025

British Regulator Cracks Down on Home, Travel Insurers

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Britain’s financial watchdog on Thursday laid out its efforts to raise standards in the home and travel insurance market after a consumer group made a rare “super-complaint” against the regulator, accusing it of letting customers down. The Financial Conduct Authority …

19 12, 2025

Russia Is Trying to Overwhelm Europe With its Sabotage Campaign: Western Officials

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In November, a train carrying almost 500 people came to a sudden halt in eastern Poland. A broken overhead line had smashed several windows, and the track ahead was damaged. Elsewhere on the line, explosives detonated under a passing freight …

19 12, 2025

AI Threatens to Displace Workers, Bank of England’s Bailey Warns

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Artificial intelligence is likely to displace British workers even as it makes the country more productive, Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey said in his most stark warning yet on the technology’s impact. Bailey said on Friday that the UK …