The Beijing Auto Show, which opened to the public this week, makes one thing painfully obvious for anyone
One US Car or Five Chinese EVs? The Automotive Math Is Cruel
الإمارات تنسحب من “أوبك” و”أوبك+”
وأكدت مع رؤيتها الاستراتيجية والاقتصادية طويلة الأمد، ويهدف إلى دعم تطور قطاع الطاقة المحلي عبر تسريع الاستثمارات في الإنتاج الوطني، بما يرسخ مكانة الإمارات كمنتج مسؤول وموثوق يستشرف مستقبل أسواق الطاقة العالمية.
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وشددت على أن استقرار منظومة الطاقة العالمية يعتمد على توفر إمدادات باعتبارها أحد أقل منتجي النفط تكلفة وكثافة كربونية في عالم، تعتزم مواصلة دورها المسؤول من خلال زيادة الإنتاج بشكل تدريجي ومدروس يتماشى مع ظروف السوق، مع إعطاء الأولوية القصوى لمعايير الاستدامة وخفض الانبعاثات.
ويأتي هذا القرار بعد مسيرة حافلة من التعاون البناء، حيث انضمت الإمارات إلى “أوبك” عام 1967.
وخلال هذه العقود، لعبت دورا محوريا في دعم استقرار السوق وتعزيز الحوار بين المنتجين والمستهلكين.
وعبرت الإمارات عن تقديرها لجهود “أوبك” وتحالف “أوبك+”، مشيرة إلى أن وجودها في المنظمة شهد تضحيات كبيرة لمصلحة الجميع، إلا أن المرحلة الراهنة تقتضي تركيز الجهود على الوفاء بالالتزامات تجاه الشركاء المستثمرين والمستوردين وتلبية احتياجات السوق المستقبلية.
وعلى الرغم من انسحابها، أكدت الإمارات أن نهجها القائم على التعاون لن يتغير، وستستمر في الاستثمار بكثافة في كامل سلسلة القيمة لقطاع الطاقة بما في ذلك النفط والغاز، وتوسع في الطاقة المتجددة والحلول منخفضة الكربون لضمان مرونة التحول في منظومة الطاقة العالمية ودعم النمو الاقتصادي المستدام.
المصدر: “وام”
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Bernard Cazeneuve says he is “ready to be a candidate in 2027” in an interview with “Figaro”
The presidential election has one more contender. Bernard Cazeneuve says he is “ready to be a candidate in 2027”, in an interview published by Le Figaro on Tuesday April 28. The former Prime Minister and former Minister of the Interior, who left the Socialist Party in 2022 and created his movement La Convention, claims to have “brought together local and national elected officials of different sensibilities, all located on the center left or on the left”, to develop a project.
“The political landscape is dominated by two dégagismes which have common characteristics and support each other,” analyzes Mr. Cazeneuve to justify his candidacy: “The far-right dégagisme uses the excesses of the extreme left as a pretext to explain that the time has come for the party of order. Far-left degagism brandishes the danger of fascism to explain that the rally around it is an absolute emergency. »
The former prime minister of François Hollande therefore intends to “create the conditions for the broadest possible gathering around a responsible and credible project”. It is necessary, he says, “that an aggregation takes place, which allows the candidate who will embody him to be present in the second round of the presidential election and to win it”.
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Claiming to be from the center left, Mr. Cazeneuve distances himself from François Hollande and criticizes the Socialist Party project and its relationship with La France insoumise. “There are many blind spots in this project, which can be explained by the desire of its editors to spare partners at all costs,” believes Mr. Cazeneuve.
Manuel Valls “waits for answers”
“The left is not leftism,” asserts the former socialist, who rejects any proximity to the right in this interview: “The right makes Chimène eyes at the far right. I fight it resolutely,” he said.
Earlier in the day, it was Manuel Valls, also a former prime minister and former interior minister of François Hollande, who declared on BFM-TV not to rule out a candidacy for the 2027 presidential election. “I will see what I do in the fall, but I think that the ideas that I defend will be at the heart of the campaign, I am waiting for answers,” warned Mr. Valls.
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Chris Wellbelove embodies the new stage of the Aitken Alexander agency
Aitken Alexander Associates is reorganizing its leadership at the top. In a press release, the London agency announces the appointment of Chris Wellbelove as co-managing director, alongside Lesley Thorne, in position since 2017. This promotion recognizes his growing role at the head of the books department and his contribution to the development of the company.
Management designed as a lock of independence
The internal career path gives this appointment a strategic scope. Chris Wellbelove joined Aitken Alexander Associates in 2017, from Greene & Heaton. The same movement saw Lesley Thorne become general manager of the agency.
A year later, Wellbelove became director, two years after his arrival. The agency’s website today presents him as head of the books department, while Lesley Thorne is associated with the audiovisual department, which she founded in 2004.
The capital structure confirms this tightening around a reduced management team. The UK Companies House register lists five active directors for Aitken Alexander Holdings Limited: Clare Alexander, Lesley Thorne, Lisa Baker, Emma Paterson and Chris Wellbelove.
The book at the heart of agency power
The press release highlights several recent successes followed by Wellbelove: The Trading Game, by Gary Stevenson, The Ministry of Time, by Kaliane Bradley, and Maurice and Maralyn, by Sophie Elmhirst. Publishers Weekly also partners Chris Wellbelove with The Trading Game as agent for the book.
The editorial ranking sheds light on the choice of governance. Aitken Alexander Associates reports that The Ministry of Time made the New York Times Best Seller list. The Guardian reports that Maurice and Maralyn won the Nero Gold Prize in 2025.
This co-direction therefore combines two complementary poles: the book, the rights and the careers of authors on the one hand; the audiovisual and the adaptations of the other. For Aitken Alexander Associates, the challenge concerns the continuity of its model: an independent agency, owned by its directors, and organized around a transversal exploitation of works.
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انخفاض أسعار الذهب مع ترقب قرارات البنوك المركزية
The time is 12:30 p.m. 1.39% إلى 4616.98 دولار للأونصة، ليسجل أدنى مستوى له منذ السابع من أبريل. 1.35% أيضا إلى 4630.39 دولار.
وقال مسؤول أمريكي إن الرئيس دونالد ترامب غير راض عن المقترح الإيراني الأخير لإنهاء الحرب التي اندلعت قبل شهرين، وهو ما قلل من التوقعات بالتوصل إلى اتفاق ينهي الصراع، الذي انعكس سلبا على إمدادات الطاقة ورفع معدلات التضخم.
وقال المحلل إدوارد مير من شركة “ماريكس” إن العوامل الجيوسياسية لا تزال المحرك الأساسي لأسعار الذهب، موضحا أنه في حال التوصل إلى اتفاق أو هدنة مؤقتة بين واشنطن وطهران، فمن المرجح أن يتراجع الدولار بينما يرتفع الذهب.
وأشار إلى أن ارتفاع أسعار النفط قد يؤدي إلى زيادة التضخم عبر رفع تكاليف النقل والإنتاج، ما يعزز احتمالات رفع أسعار الفائدة. ورغم أن الذهب يعد ملاذا للتحوط ضد التضخم، فإن ارتفاع الفائدة Remove the water from the water.
مجلس الاحتياطي الفيدرالي الأمريكي أسعار الفائدة دون تغيير خلال اجتماعه الذي يستمر يومين وينتهي الأربعاء.
كما يترقب المستثمرون قرارات عدد من البنوك المركزية هذا الأسبوع، من بينها البنك المركزي الأوروبي وبنك إنجلترا وبنك كندا.
المصدر: RT+ رويترز
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France: the Senate studies a bill on the repatriation of Kali’na remains to Guyana
In France, the Senate begins to examine with hearings this Tuesday, April 28, a bill which should allow the repatriation to French Guiana of the remains of Kali’na Amerindians. These bones were kept in the galleries of the Musée de l’Homme in Paris since the end of the 19th century. The government announced that it would support this text. A first step for their descendants who have been fighting for years.
Monday, April 13, the Minister of Culture Catherine Pgard announced that the government would support a Senate bill going in this direction, and that “the government will initiate the accelerated procedure” on this text, carried by centrist senator Catherine Morin-Desailly. “After 133 years of waiting, this is a signal that we welcome positively,” said Guyana MP Jean-Victor Castor, who recalled how Kali’na women, men and children had been “torn from their land, taken to France and exhibited in human zoos.”
These bones tell the story of the Kali’nas, as one of the descendants, Corinne Toka Devilliers, at the head of the Moliko Alet+po association, explains to RFI. “Our ancestors – numbering 33 – were brought 130 years ago, in 1892, on behalf of the Acclimatation zoological garden, during the colonial exhibitions. Unfortunately, eight paid with their lives and the human remains of six of them are currently in the Musée de l’Homme. We therefore asked them to return home,” she explains.
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“Our history must not remain hidden”
Once returned, the remains will join a memorial inaugurated in August 2024 in Iracoubo, in central Guyana. “This restitution is very important because our history must not remain hidden,” Cécile Kouyouri, traditional chief of the village of Bellevue-Yanu in Iracoubo, where the memorial is located, told AFP. “Our ancestors suffered as much as the slaves and it took a lot of work for this traumatic history to be recognized.”
For years, this woman has been fighting for the return of her ancestors to Guyana. In 2023, a framework law, which authorizes the restitution of human remains upon requests made by foreign countries, is adopted. But overseas territories are excluded. “A law is absolutely necessary because there is the inalienability of property. We cannot recover our bones, our ancestors, without there being a downgrading of these human remains to be returned to the people, communities or countries requested,” adds Corinne Toka Devilliers.
The bill specifically targeting Kali’na human remains, co-signed by senators Max Brisson (Les Républicains) and Pierre Ouzoulias (communist), provides that the remains “cease to be part” of the museum’s collections, and be handed over within a year to Guyana “for funeral purposes”. Jean-Victor Castor warned that he would remain attentive to the “concrete translation” of the text, which will therefore be examined in the Senate on May 18.
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World News in Brief: Sudan drone attacks condemned, South Sudan violence, airstrikes in Ukraine, South Africa Freedom Day
An aid truck from the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) that was carrying emergency shelter kits came under attack by a drone on Friday while transiting through the town of Umm Drisaya in North Darfur state.
Although the driver escaped unhurt, all supplies were destroyed in the fire.
The truck was heading to the town of Tawila, where 700,000 people have sought safety after fleeing fighting in other parts of Sudan. The brutal civil war between rival militaries has now entered a fourth year.
UNHCR will continue its work to reach people displaced by the conflict, including nearly nine million nationwide and more than 860,000 others who have fled across the border into other countries.
‘Ordinary families’ killed and injured
The second incident occurred on Saturday when a drone reportedly caused casualties in residential neighbourhoods of El Obeid city, North Kordofan state.
Seven people were killed and over 20 injured, according to a local medical group.
“These are ordinary families in their homes, caught in violence that continues to reach civilian neighbourhoods,” said Mr. Dujarric. “We condemn all of these attacks.”
Meanwhile, a recent assessment by UN partners has revealed a worsening humanitarian situation across displacement sites in Blue Nile state, he added.
Main factors include overcrowding, lack of privacy, inadequate shelter, poor sanitation, and escalating risks of gender-based violence.
The UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Sudan, Denise Brown, visited the state capital Damazine last week where she highlighted how funding gaps, insecurity, and access constraints continue to hamper aid organizations from scaling up their response.
South Sudan: UN responds to intercommunal violence and rising tensions in Warrap state
Moving to South Sudan where the UN peacekeeping mission in the country, UNMISS, responded to deadly intercommunal violence in the greater Tonj area in Warrap state over the weekend.
Peacekeepers were deployed to the region to help stabilise the situation.
“Tensions, however, remain high, and the Mission has a quick reaction force on standby to deter further conflict,” said UN Spokesperson Mr. Dujarric.
UNMISS is also engaging community leaders and authorities in efforts to restore calm.
Central Equatoria patrols, mobile court in Unity state
Separately, peacekeepers conducted a two-day patrol in Central Equatoria state to assess the situation in Khor Kaltan/Jebel Iraq following reports of a deadly attack on civilians in late March.
The patrol team met with community representatives and security forces on the ground.
UNMISS had made several previous attempts to access the area but was denied.
In other developments: an UNMISS-supported mobile court in the town of Leer has concluded its work after hearing 68 civil and criminal cases across several counties in southern Unity state and the Bentiu displacement camp.
This resulted in 31 criminal rulings with 18 convictions, with others acquitted or dismissed, and 29 people released from wrongful or prolonged detention.
Mr. Dujarric explained that “such mobile justice interventions are part of the Mission’s ongoing efforts to strengthen rule of law and access to justice throughout South Sudan.”
Aid workers, civilians and infrastructure under fire in Ukraine
At least three drone strikes hit humanitarian vehicles in the Ukrainian city of Kherson over the past week, the UN aid coordination office OCHA reported on Monday.
Two incidents involved the same local non-governmental organization (NGO), while another affected a different organization delivering food. Several aid workers were also injured.
Across Ukraine, at least three aid workers were killed and five injured during the first three months of the year, according to humanitarian partners.
OCHA said intensified hostilities over the weekend through Monday morning caused nearly 130 civilian casualties and widespread damage to civilian infrastructure, with the regions of Dnipro and Odesa among those most affected.
Attacks widespread
The attacks also led to casualties and damage in seven other regions – Kharkiv, Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk, Chernihiv, Kyiv and Sumy – affecting homes, schools, transport and energy infrastructure.
Humanitarian partners are providing psychosocial support, hot meals, and repair materials in response.
Meanwhile, civilians continue to be evacuated from frontline areas in Ukraine.
Some 1,900 people – including more than 360 children – were evacuated from communities close to the fighting in Donetsk this weekend with the support of humanitarian organizations and local authorities.
In the past, a hopeful future for South Africa was hindered by apartheid, but overcoming racial injustice paved the way for a society based on equality and shared rights for all.
Guterres marks South Africa Freedom Day with call to end xenophobia
Marking South Africa’s Freedom Day on 27 April, UN Secretary-General António Guterres extended his greetings to the nation while expressing deep concern over reported xenophobic attacks and intimidation of foreign nationals.
In a statement issued by his Spokesperson, the UN chief strongly condemned criminal acts and incitement to violence against migrants in parts of KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape Province.
He reminded the international community that South Africa’s own struggle against apartheid was built on a foundation of global and African solidarity.
No place for hate
“Violence, vigilantism and all forms of incitement to hatred have no place in an inclusive, democratic society,” the Spokesperson said, noting that South Africa’s development has long been shaped by the contributions of people from across the continent.
While acknowledging complex socio-economic challenges, the Secretary-General welcomed the Government’s commitment to the National Action Plan against Racism and Xenophobia.
He urged that all investigations into recent violence be prompt, independent, and impartial.
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Morning Briefing: Oil, Brent above 100 dollars – 04/28
This Monday, April 27, Alexis Karklins-Marchay, Deputy Managing Director of Eight Advisory, Pascal Houdayer, Managing Director of Boiron, Pascal Houdayer, Managing Director of Boiron, and Wilfrid Galand, Deputy Managing Director of Montpensier Arbevel, were guests on the show Good Morning Business on BFM Business. Find the show from Monday to Friday and listen to it again as a podcast.
Find the debrief of the news from Monday April 27 in the show Good Morning Business, presented by Laure Closier. Find the show from Monday to Friday and listen to it again as a podcast.
Jean-Marc Chéry, CEO of STMicroelectronics, was the guest of Laure Closier in French Tech, this Monday April 27. He looked at STMicro’s 23% growth on the stock market in the first quarter and its collaboration with Nvidia and Amazon, in Good Morning Business. Find the show from Monday to Friday and listen to it again as a podcast.
Pascal Houdayer, general manager of Boiron, was Laure Closier’s guest on Good Morning Business, this Monday April 27. He returned to their resumption of growth, supported by a strategic international repositioning, after a difficult period, on BFM Business. Find the show from Monday to Friday and listen to it again as a podcast.
This Monday, April 27, the Medef proposal aimed at including a rule limiting the public deficit in the Constitution, was addressed by Jean-Marc Daniel and Frédéric Bianchi in their column, in the program Good Morning Business, presented by Laure Closier, on BFM Business. Find the show from Monday to Friday and listen to it again as a podcast.
This Monday, April 27, Alexis Karklins-Marchay, Deputy Managing Director of Eight Advisory, was the guest on The World That Moves – The Interview, on the show Good Morning Business, presented by Laure Closier. He returned to the question of the systemic dimension of political violence in the United States, following a new assassination attempt targeting Donald Trump. Find the show from Monday to Friday and listen to it again as a podcast.
This Monday, April 27, the relationship between Azerbaijan and Russia, which has become strained, and the rapprochement between kyiv and Baku, were addressed by Annalisa Cappellini in her column, in the show Good Morning Business, presented by Laure Closier, on BFM Business. Find the show from Monday to Friday and listen to it again as a podcast.
This Monday, April 27, the report of the parliamentary commission of inquiry into public broadcasting was analyzed by Jean-Marc Daniel in his editorial, in the show Good Morning Business, presented by Laure Closier, on BFM Business. Find the show from Monday to Friday and listen to it again as a podcast.
This Monday, April 27, the responsibility of AI platforms in the face of their use for violent purposes was addressed by Anthony Morel, in Culture AI, on the show Good Morning Business. Find the show from Monday to Friday and listen to it again as a podcast.
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