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America looms over Audrey Diwan’s Happening. The film is set in Angoulême, south-west France, but the year is 1963, and the students here are besotted with the transatlantic exports of chewing gum and rock’n’roll. Now, in 2022 this bold, clear-eyed drama, which won the top prize at last year’s Venice Film Festival, is about to
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This week, as western governments pondered sending aircraft to Ukraine, the Kyiv government embarked on a novel financing step: it launched a website #buymeafighterjet to crowdsource donations for jets from the world’s mega-rich. Once that might have seemed a laughably bizarre thing to do. But today it no longer appears quite so odd. Never mind
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Tycoons, bankers and bosses are vying for control of Generali, Italy’s largest insurer. This acrimonious and, at times, personal battle has divided the Italian financial establishment. The outcome will matter far beyond this tight circle. Generali is worth about €30bn, employs roughly 75,000 people and serves approximately 67mn customers. Construction tycoon Francesco Caltagirone leads rebels
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It should be no surprise that a beauty business is a dab hand at putting a good face on things. Nutrition, beauty and logistics group THG’s cut to its profit margin outlook for this year came with something to pretty it up: the confirmation that it had received “indicative proposals from numerous parties” to buy
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Melissa Aldana’s cultured, light-toned tenor saxophone is steeped in the winding pathways, dynamic contrasts and harmonic thickets of contemporary narrative jazz. Raised in Santiago, Chile, she graduated from Berklee College of Music in 2009, and, based in New York, is a fixture in international jazz. This quartet gig, an early evening full-house show, presented music from
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The United Arab Emirates has frozen the assets of the Kinahan drug trafficking gang, adding to international pressure on an organisation that has deep ties with boxers and promoters at the highest levels of the sport. The Gulf state said it was continuing to investigate the Irish organised crime group in parallel with authorities in
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Carlsberg has warned it will book a $1.4bn writedown from the sale of its Russian business as part of the exodus of western companies following Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. The Danish group, which owns Russia’s biggest beer brand Baltika, has more exposure to the market than any other international brewer, earning 9 per cent of
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Choppy waters distance Chinese business from western capital. Cnooc, a driller in the contested South China Sea, embodies that gulf. The US expelled China’s biggest offshore oil and gas producer from the New York stock market in 2021, deeming it a security threat. Cnooc’s politicised status invites scepticism from international investors, despite a triumphant homecoming
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