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PARIS — The Winter Olympics will return to Salt Lake City in 2034, with the 2030 games tentatively scheduled to be held in the French Alps, officials said Wednesday.Utah Gov. Spencer Cox, Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall and other organizing committee officials traveled to Paris this week to meet with members of the International Olympic Committee and shore up support for the committee’s bid to return the Winter Olympics to its 2002 home.Salt Lake City had been looked certain to host the 2034 games for weeks, but the IOC belatedly expressed concerns that US authorities might not back the…
Stay up to date with free updatesJust sign up Eurozone economy myFT Digest – delivered straight to your inbox.The euro zone economy slowed sharply, driven by weaker-than-expected growth in the services sector and a steeper drop in manufacturing, particularly in Germany, according to results from a closely tracked business survey.A survey of euro zone purchasing managers showed business activity had all but ground to a halt this month, helping the headline index fall to a five-month low of 50.1, just above the 50 mark that separates growth from contraction. S&P Global’s results, released on Wednesday, were weaker than expected in…
This article is an on-site version of our Moral Money newsletter. Premium subscribers can sign up here to receive the newsletter three times a week. Standard subscribers can upgrade to Premium here or see all FT newsletters.For the latest ESG news, opinion and analysis from the FT, visit our Moral Money hub. “Transition finance” – financing the decarbonization of highly polluting industries – has become a more prominent term in recent years, and rightly so.But as I have argued before, transition finance runs the risk of being too focused on providing capital to large corporations that currently happen to dominate…
Welcome to the first edition of our Olympics 2024 Newsletter. Appetizers Before I get into the main topic, John Chelwa And I will be your tour guide on this Paris adventure.So, you may be wondering, why a separate Olympics newsletter? If you’re over a certain age, you remember when many hotels in Las Vegas offered shrimp cocktails for 99 cents. That was before Las Vegas got its deserved reputation for price gouging. The gold standard, of course, is Louisville during Kentucky Derby week. Note: This is the first of many digressions.We’ve got a dollar’s worth of cocktail sauce with a…
This will be an Olympics to remember for Coco Gauff.The athlete has been selected as one of the U.S. flag bearers at the opening ceremony of the Summer Olympics in Paris on July 26, alongside tennis star LeBron James, TODAY exclusively reported on July 24. According to a press release, the duo was selected by a vote of their fellow Team USA players through a process led by the Team USA Player Committee, which serves as the voice and representative organization for Team USA players. Gauff and James become the second pair to share the honor. Gauff also becomes the…
T2024 will see several elections, an opportunity for many countries to choose their political projects. After Narendra Modi’s India in the spring, it will be the United States’ turn in the fall. China does not have elections, but it does have an anniversary: the 75th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China. A grand ceremony will be held on October 1st, marking the approval of the “model” promoted by President Xi Jinping. China’s seeming consistency does not mask the way the country is changing. The outline of the project is well known and was laid out in…
A new TikTok trend popular among Gen Z isaura” To explain what it is, we need to look back to the era in which we saw the characters. Dragon Ball Aura Points are used to measure the combat power of enemies using a special eye measuring device. According to a video about “Aura Points,” Gain or lose points Based on the choices we make in life, the things that happen to us, and how we respond. Liz (Short for charisma, for those born before 2000) “Aura” represents a new frontier in Gen Z slang. Between the world of mysticism and…
To play this content please enable JavaScript or try a different browser.Video captions, Kamala Harris attacks Donald Trump in first campaign speechArticle informationauthor, Bernd Debsmann Jr.role, BBC News, Washington July 23, 2024Updated 50 minutes agoUS Vice President Kamala Harris took an aggressive stance against Donald Trump at her first campaign rally at the White House, arguing that November’s election was a choice between a former prosecutor and a convicted felon.Speaking to a crowd of about 3,000 in the battleground state of Wisconsin, Harris likened her Republican opponent to the con man she had prosecuted.Meanwhile, Trump has slammed Harris’ record at…
BEIJING (AP) — Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said he is seeking “common ground” in talks with his Chinese counterpart this week. The war between his country and Russia.Kuleba met his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi on Wednesday in Guangzhou, China’s main commercial and manufacturing hub in southern China, in the first visit by a Ukrainian foreign minister to the country since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine strained ties between the two countries.”A just peace in Ukraine is in China’s strategic interests and we are convinced that China’s role as a force for world peace is important,” Kuleba said in his opening…
On Wednesday, in collaboration with the Deputy Commissioner of Social Welfare, District Legal Services Authority and Youth Development and Activities Centre Pune, special camps were organised for third gender and transgender individuals for registration of identity cards, certificates and new voter ID cards. At the camp held at Social Justice Bhawan, Vishrantwadi, 54 third gender and transgender persons registered their identity cards and 28 registered for new voter ID cards. The Deputy Commissioner of Social Welfare and the District Legal Services Office provided free stamp and notarisation services for issuance of these documents. Moreover, all the registered individuals were listed…