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Canada and the US have signed an agreement to cut through the firefighting red tape.
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Listen: In the last twenty-five years, the number of active satellites orbiting the Earth has increased from about 500 to 8,000. The latest episode of the Next Giant Leap podcast explores the exponential increase in satellites which are being launched into Low Earth orbit (LEO). This is the zone of space between about 100 and 1200 miles above the Earth.
Listen: "We are coming out of a period of uncertainty," says David Bailin, Chief Investment Officer at Citi Global Wealth. In the latest episode of Living Beyond Borders, Bailin is joined by Eurasia Group President Ian Bremmer to discuss what's happened so far on the economic and political stage, and what we might look forward to in the back half of the year and into 2024. Bailin and Bremmer talk through the biggest risks and opportunities they see in the next six months.
This might all become more than a headache for Macron.
Top Russian General Sergey Surovikin was reportedly arrested on Wednesday, just hours after TheNew York Times cited unnamed US officials alleging that he had known in advance of Yevgeny Prigozhin’s mutiny plans.
The US Supreme Court will issue the final decisions of its current term this week, and so far its rulings have been surprisingly moderate for a conservative-majority court.
India is going big on diversifying its energy, announcing on Wednesday a hefty subsidy package to encourage companies to ramp up production of electricity grid batteries.