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WikiLeaks gadfly: the Julian Assange saga
After spending seven years in an Ecuadorean embassy and five in prison, the US pursuit of him is drawing to a close
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Denmark to charge farmers €100 a cow in first carbon tax on agriculture
Coalition government agrees annual levy on emissions from livestock after months of fraught negotiations
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Minimum tax on billionaires would raise up to $250bn a year, says report
Co-ordinated levy on total wealth of super-rich is feasible and enforceable, says paper commissioned for G20
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New German citizens must declare Israel’s right to exist
Berlin overhauls nationality criteria to include adherence to the country’s values
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LVMH’s Bernard Arnault emerges as personal stakeholder in Richemont
Investment could revive speculation about takeover scenarios among world’s biggest luxury groups
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The folly of the pro-Trump plutocrats
Many business leaders dismiss fears of a return of the former president to the White House — they are wrong to do so
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How Australia lobbied for Assange release
Plea bargain follows years of ‘quiet diplomacy’ by Anthony Albanese’s Labor government
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Was QE worth it?
Quantitative easing appears to have cost British taxpayers at least twice as much as equivalents in the US, Europe and other advanced economies
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