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CITY WHISPERS: Die Zeit des guten Willens endet für Eco Buildings vorzeitig

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Von Calum Muirhead

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Beim Tiddler-Baukonzern Eco Buildings herrschte Aufregung, nachdem er die Suspendierung seines stellvertretenden Vorstandsvorsitzenden Dominic Redfern bekannt gegeben hatte.

Das Unternehmen äußerte sich wortkarg zu den Vorgängen und sagte in einer einsätzigen Ankündigung, dass Redfern „bis zu weiteren Ermittlungen“ suspendiert werde.

Den Chats in einigen Londoner Aktienforen zufolge wird Redfern wahrscheinlich keine große Sympathie auf sich ziehen.

Sperrung: Beim Tiddler-Baukonzern Eco Buildings kam es zu Aufruhr

„Gut, dass er

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POLITICO Europe’s most-read stories of 2023 – POLITICO

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Well, here we are folks, at the end of another turbulent year.

When we put this list together at the end of 2022, its contents largely covered something many of us thought we would not see again in our lifetime: a major war in Europe. Now, we are grappling with two wars in our immediate neighborhood, as the slaughter drags on in Ukraine, and conflict rages between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.

In Ukraine, the long-awaited counteroffensive against Russia, which

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Die Rangliste der weltweit am meisten beklagten Touristenschlangen: Der Eiffelturm ist Nr. 1, gefolgt vom London Eye – wobei die Linie des Empire State Buildings in den USA die meisten Besucher auf sich zieht

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Es ist eines der auffälligsten Bauwerke der Welt, aber die Besucherschlange hinterlässt bei vielen Menschen ein Eiffel-Gefühl.

Tatsächlich steht die Warteschlange am berühmten Eiffelturm in Paris an erster Stelle der Weltrangliste der am häufigsten beanstandeten Warteschlangen, gefolgt vom London Eye an zweiter und dem Kolosseum an dritter Stelle.

Die von hawaiianislands.com erstellte Liste wurde durch eine Analyse von 10,74 Millionen Tripadvisor-Bewertungen für die 100 „Lieblingsattraktionen der Reisenden“ in jedem Land erstellt, wobei Bewertungen gezählt wurden, die den Begriff „lange Warteschlange“

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They’re talking, but a climate divide between Beijing and Washington remains – POLITICO

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This article is part of the Road to COP special report, presented by SQM.

Last week’s surprise deal between China and the United States may provide a boost to the climate talks in Dubai — but the two powers remain at odds on tough questions such as how quickly to shut down coal and who should provide climate aid to developing nations.

The world’s top two drivers of climate change are also divided by a thicket of disagreements on trade,

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Every bill in the King’s Speech, reviewed and rated – POLITICO

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LONDON – This is the list of new laws Rishi Sunak hopes will save his skin come election-time.

Tuesday’s King’s Speech — in which King Charles III read out the British government’s legislative agenda for the crucial pre-election term ahead — was packed with promises from Sunak’s Conservative Party.

With the clock ticking down to an election which must be held before the end of January 2025, the King’s

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The eerie truth about New York’s FAKE buildings: Inside the very mysterious structures spread throughout the city – and the sinister conspiracy theories that lurk behind their doors

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If you’re taking a stroll through Brooklyn Heights, you may unknowingly stumble upon 58 Joralemon Street – one of New York City’s many ‘fake buildings.’

On the outside, it looks like your average townhouse, but behind the rustic, red-brick façade lies a steel girder filled with various technologies that are vital for the function of New York City’s train system

Disguised as a stunning three-story family home in the heart of Brooklyn, hundreds of people pass it everyday unknowing that

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How Hamas trained to slaughter from the skies: Terror group shows how it rehearsed deadly Israel paraglider attack, with mock-up buildings marked with Jewish Star of David

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Hamas fighters have been shown rehearsing their deadly Israel paraglider attack, landing with their weapons drawn before infiltrating mock-up buildings marked with the Jewish Star of David.

Fighters from the ‘Falcon’ squadron were seen walking through the sand at dawn carrying the equipment that would be used in the operation.

Video shows them starting up the engines with parachutes stretched out on a sandy strip of land before one of the buggies carrying two men takes off.

Several paragliders can

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How the far right turned heat pumps into electoral rocket fuel – POLITICO

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When they write the book on the downfall of liberal democracy, will it begin with the heat pumps?

Immediately outside the main train station in the German city of Wiesbaden, an election poster has been tied high up on a lamppost, out of reach of those who would tear it down in the belief that it’s a harbinger of fascism once again spreading across the country. The subject? Not scary depictions of migrants. Nor the overreach of the European Union.

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Inside the fall of Nagorno-Karabakh – POLITICO

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KORNIDZOR, Armenia — Many of the men waiting at the Armenian border have been there for days.

When news broke on Tuesday that Azerbaijan had launched a major attack into the ethnic-Armenian enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, dozens of them pulled on warm jackets and wooly hats and drove towards the checkpoint. Now they can only watch the road, once the sole highway cutting through the mountains to the breakaway region where their families live, hoping their relatives are able to get

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Probe eines Asteroiden in der Größe eines Empire State Buildings, der in der Wüste von Utah abstürzen soll

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Nach mehr als sieben Jahren im Weltraum und einer Reise von fast 4 Milliarden Meilen wird am Sonntag eine Kapsel mit wertvollen Asteroidenproben zur Erde zurückkehren.

Das NASA-Raumschiff OSIRIS-REx – das für „Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security – Regolith Explorer“ steht – wurde 2016 gestartet, um die erste Mission der Agentur durchzuführen, bei der es darum ging, Material von einem Asteroiden im Weltraum zu sammeln. Eine Kapsel mit fast 9 Unzen Steinen, Staub und Schmutz, die von einem

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