From the times of the pharaohs, the Nile has been a source of life and wealth to millions. With populations soaring along its 6,700-kilometre length, it is increasingly a source of tension. A coup in Sudan raises the odds that disagreements, particularly over Ethiopia’s.
António Horta-Osório is expelling ghosts at Credit Suisse. The Swiss bank’s new chair has settled a Mozambican scandal for $475 million, while a spying saga that toppled previous Chief Executive Tidjane Thiam’s job has also been laid to rest. But the demons of collapsed.
Governments and companies are dangling incentives for people to get jabbed against Covid-19. But it will take more than free weed, lottery tickets and beer to reach herd immunity, Jeff Goldfarb explains. And Dasha Afanasieva says take the pastries, leave the Krispy Kreme.
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Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, attends a news conference in Tokyo, November 9, 2018. REUTERS/Toru Hanai
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FLOOD GATES OPEN. Rich guy and Microsoft founder Bill Gates is, as the world knows, getting divorced. Since the announcement of the split, Gates has come under fresh scrutiny here, including over his contacts with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and a prior consensual relationship with a Microsoft employee. An investigation years later into the latter by Microsoft’s board coincided with Gates’ resignation as a director in 2020, according to the Wall Street Journal.
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HONG KONG (Reuters Breakingviews) - Bike-sharing companies are back in the saddle after a brutal wipe-out. Survivors are now pedalling their way onto public markets in a fresh test of investor endurance.
A man rides a bicycle of bike-sharing firm Hellobike amid Hellobike bicycles placed on a plaza a day ahead of the World Car Free Day, in Zhengzhou, Henan province, China September 21, 2018. Picture taken September 21, 2018. REUTERS/Stringer
China invented so-called “dockless” shared bicycles: hardy vehicles unlocked by smartphone and left anywhere for the next user. Mobike and Ofo spawned dozens of imitators at home and abroad. A price war ensued, while bike-strewn sidewalks irritated municipal officials, who cracked down. The collapse was brutal: Ofo had raised $2.2 billion, per Crunchbase, before it failed.